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2024 Olympic Games
Athletics
Stade de France
Paris, France
8 August 2024
With the 100m finals having taken place on August 3 and 4, the focus now shifts to the relay and long-distance events in the final week of the
2024 Olympic Games.
Noah Lyles of United States won the gold medal in the men's 100m with a personal-best time of 9.784s, while Saint Lucia's Julien Alfred set a new national record with a winning time of 10.72s in the women's 100m final.
Italy won gold in the men's 4 x 100m relay at Tokyo 2020 and United States came out on top in the men's and women's 4 x 400m relay, with Jamaica victorious in the women's 4 x 100m relay three years ago.
The heats for the two events will take place on August 8 and 9, with the finals to follow on August 9 and 10.
The marathon sees 81 participants competing in the men's race and 94 in the women's race. Kenya duo Eliud Kipchoge and Peres Jepchirchir are back to defend their 2020 titles.
Other events still to be decided are the men's and women's 1500m and 5000m as well as the women's 10,000m race.
Jepchirchir is aiming to become the first woman to win back-to-back gold medals in the marathon and believes Kenya team-mates Hellen Obiri and Sharon Lokedi could complete the podium line-up on August 11.
"The course is not easy but I thank God for the Kenyan team that comprises I, Hellen Obiri and Sharon Lokedi. I have run the Boston Marathon and New York City Marathon and won," she told Africa News.
"Obiri has won the Boston Marathon twice and Sharon won New York and was second in Boston. I believe in them and myself because all of us have run on tough courses and this will not be the first."
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