Then, just two days later, Ethiopia’s Letesenbet Gidey improved Hassan’s mark by another five seconds. In Hengelo earlier this month, Dutch distance runner Sifan Hassan smashed the world 10,000m record by more than 10 seconds. Look out too for a mouth-watering clash in the women’s 10,000m. ![]() Should the Jamaican triumph in the 100m in Tokyo, she will become the first woman in Olympic history to win the title three times. In the women’s sprints, Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce – the 20 Olympic 100m champion – earlier this year climbed to No.2 on the world 100m all-time list with a show-stopping 10.63 clocking. Well, any of the above could all make a huge impact in Tokyo.īut apart from that, watch out for world pole vault record-holder and 2020 World Athletics Male Athlete of the Year Mondo Duplantis of Sweden – a bona fide global athletics superstar. In the men’s shot, look out for defending champion Ryan Crouser, who last week smashed the long-standing world shot put record with 23.37m.Īnother thrower with world record capabilities is the red-hot German javelin ace Johannes Vetter, who last September came within a metre of Jan Zelezny’s iconic 25-year-old world record mark.Īnother with the potential to create a historic world record is Venezuelan triple jump star Yulimar Rojas, who loomed within seven centimetres of the 26-year-old world record earlier this year with a mighty 15.43m leap. Last year the Norwegian posted a time of 46.87 to climb to No.2 on the world all-time list, 0.09 shy of Kevin Young’s 29-year-old world record. Karsten Warholm leads the way in the men's event. However, thanks to an outstanding crop of athletes, the women’s and men's 400m hurdles world records might be vulnerable at the Olympics.ĭalilah Muhammad and Sydney McLaughlin ran the two fastest 400m hurdles times in history at the World Athletics Championships Doha 2019 and, provided they survive the US Trials, either could produce something special again. It’s not easy to predict which records will tumble in Tokyo. The track and field events will be held at the new National Stadium with the race walks and marathons at Odori Park in Sapporo. The athletics programme will run from 30 July to 8 August. The event – which takes place from 23 July to 8 August – will still officially be known as the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. In March 2020, because of the global pandemic, the decision was taken to postpone the Tokyo Olympic Games by a year to 2021. ![]() In September 2013 at the 125th IOC Session in Buenos Aries, Tokyo was officially announced as the successful bid city for the 2020 Games, defeating Istanbul and Madrid to the honour. The Japanese Olympic Committee officially announced Tokyo as its bidding city for the 2020 Olympic Games in 2011. In the concluding part in our Japan’s Seven Wonders series, we gaze into our crystal ball and look ahead at what to expect from the forthcoming rescheduled Tokyo Olympic Games.
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