Track And Field Olympic Medals

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Track and field olympic medals.

9 medals 6 g 3 s felix is the only female track and field athlete to ever win six olympic gold medals and her nine medals are tied for the most ever won by a. This is the complete list of men s medalists in athletics at the summer olympics it does not include the medalists from the athletics at the 1906 intercalated games these are no longer regarded as an official part of the olympic chronology by the ioc. To see a list of the individual medalists go here. Media caption olympic gold medal win a marvellous achievement.

Allyson felix track and field. Welsh athletes have only ever won four track and field olympic gold medals and half came 100 years ago. Cross country running was also on the program in earlier editions but it was. Cecil griffiths from.

His long jump world record stood for 25 years. Become a usatf member today. Jamaican usain bolt also won 9 golds but a relay gold was taken off him later when a team mate was found guilty of doping. The best all time performing track and field athlete at the olympic games is finnish distance runner paavo nurmi who competed between 1920 and 1928 and won 12 medals including 9 gold medals.

Athletics has been contested at every summer olympics since the birth of the modern olympic movement at the 1896 summer olympics the athletics program traces its earliest roots to events used in the ancient greek olympics the modern program includes track and field events road running events and racewalking events. He was only slightly ahead of us sprinter carl lewis who also won 9 gold medals.