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Atletismo / Juegos Olímpicos

Well-Known Performances Previous to 1976
Resultados Destacados Anteriores a 1976

"Chariots of Fire". Paris 1924

Event Gold / Oro CNT Mark Silver / Plata CNT Mark Bronze / Bronce CNT Mark
100 Harold Abrahams GBR 10.6 Jackson Scholz USA 10.8 Arthur Porritt NZL 10.9
200 Jackson Scholz USA 21.6 Charles Paddock USA 21.7 Eric Liddell* GBR 21.9
400 Eric Liddell GBR 47.6 Horatio Fitch USA 48.4 Guy Butler GBR 48.6

* 6th: Harold Abrahams (GBR) 22.3

James Cleveland "Jesse" Owens. Four Gold Medals. Berlin 1936

Event Gold / Oro CNT Mark Silver / Plata CNT Mark Bronze / Bronce CNT Mark
100 Jesse Owens USA 10.3 Ralph Metcalfe USA 10.4 Martinus Osendarp HOL 10.5
200 Jesse Owens USA 20.7 Mack Robinson USA 21.1 Martinus Osendarp HOL 21.3
4x100 Jesse Owens, Ralph Metcalfe, Foy Draper, Frank Wykoff USA 39.8 Mariani, Caldana, Ragni, Gonnelli ITA 41.1 Leichum, Borchmeyer, Gillmeister, Hornberger GER 41.2
LJ Jesse Owens USA 8m06 Luz Long GER 7m87 Naoto Tajima JPN 7m74

Emil Zátopek. Three Gold Medals. Helsinki 1952

Event Gold / Oro CNT Mark Silver / Plata CNT Mark Bronze / Bronce CNT Mark
5000 Emil Zátopek TCH 14:06.6 Alain Mimoun FRA 14:07.4 Herbert Schade FRG 14:08.6
10000 Emil Zátopek TCH 29:17.0 Alain Mimoun FRA 29:32.8 Aleksandr Anufriev URS 29:48.2
Mar Emil Zátopek TCH 2h23:03 Reinaldo Gorno ARG 2h25:35 Gustav Jansson SWE 2h26:07

Alfred Oerter. Four Gold Medals. Discus Throw

Year Gold / Oro CNT Mark Silver / Plata CNT Mark Bronze / Bronce CNT Mark
1956 Al Oerter USA 56m36 Fortune Gordien USA 54m81 Desmond Koch USA 54m40
1960 Al Oerter USA 59m18 Rink Babka USA 58m02 Richard Cochran USA 57m16
1964 Al Oerter USA 61m00 Ludvik Danek TCH 60m52 David Weill USA 59m49
1968 Al Oerter USA 64m78 Lothar Milde GDR 63m08 Ludvik Danek TCH 64m40

Mexico 1968. Nine World Records. Dick Fosbury invents "Fosbury Flop"

Event Gold / Oro Mark Silver / Plata Mark Bronze / Bronce Mark Previous Yrs
100 Jim Hines, USA 9.95 Lennox Miller, JAM 10.04 Charles Greene, USA 10.07 9.9 (10.14) 15
200 Tommie Smith, USA 19.83 Peter Norman, AUS 20.06 John Carlos, USA 20.10 19.92 11
400 Lee Evans, USA 43.86 Larry James, USA 43.97 Ron Freeman, USA 44.41 44.0 (44.14) 20
800 Ralph Doubell, AUS 1:44.3 Wilson Chuma, KEN 1:44.5 Thomas Farrell, USA 1:45.4 1:44.3 5
400h David Hemery, GBR 48.12 Gerhard Hennige, FRG 49.02 John Sherwood, GBR 49.03 48.8 (48.94) 4
4x100 Greene, Melvin Pender, Ronnie Ray Smith, Hines 38.24 Ramírez, Morales, Montes, Figuerola, CUB 38.40 Fénouil, Delecour, Piquemal, Bambuck, FRA 38.43 38.6 (38.74) 4
4x400 Vincent Matthews, Freeman, James, Evans 2:56.16 Rudisha, Nyamau, Bon, Asati, KEN 2:59.64 Müller, Kinder, Hennige, Jellinghaus, FRG 3:00.54 2:59.6 20 (24)*
HJ Dick Fosbury, USA 2m24 Ed Caruthers, USA 2m22 Valentin Gavrilov, URS 2m20 2m28 -
LJ Bob Beamon, USA 8m90 Klaus Beer, GDR 8m19 Ralph Boston, USA 8m16 8m35 23
TJ Viktor Saneyev, URS 17m39 Nelson Prudencio, BRA 17.27 Giuseppe Gentile, ITA 17m22 17m03+ 3
The last column shows how many years the record lasted / La última columna indica los ańos que duró el record.
* Equaled in 1988, improved in 1992 (both times in the Olympic Games) / Igualado en 1988 y mejorado en 1992 (ambas en los JJOO)
+ 4.- Arthur Walker, USA (17m12) & 5.-Nikolai Dudkin, URS 17m09) also improved the previous WR / también mejoraron el récord mundial.

Victor Saneyev. Four Medals. Triple Jump

Year Gold / Oro CNT Mark Silver / Plata CNT Mark Bronze / Bronce CNT Mark
1968 Viktor Saneyev URS 17m39 Nelson Prudencio BRA 17m27 Giuseppe Gentile ITA 17m22
1972 Viktor Saneyev URS 17m35 Jörg Drehmel GDR 17m31 Nelson Prudencio BRA 17m05
1976 Viktor Saneyev URS 17m29 James Butts USA 17m18 Joăo Carlos de Oliveira BRA 16m90
1980 Jaak Uudmäe URS 17m35 Viktor Saneyev URS 17m24 Joăo Carlos de Oliveira BRA 17m22

Francina "Fanny" Blankers-Koen. Four Gold Medals. London 1948

Event Gold / Oro CNT Mark Silver / Plata CNT Mark Bronze / Bronce CNT Mark
100 Fanny Blankers-Koen HOL 11.9 Dorothy Manley GBR 12.2 Shirley Strickland AUS 12.2
200 Fanny Blankers-Koen HOL 24.4 Audrey Williamson GBR 25.1 Audrey Patterson USA 25.2
80h Fanny Blankers-Koen HOL 11.2 Maureen Gardner GBR 11.2 Shirley Strickland AUS 11.3
4x100 Stad-de Jong, Witziers, Kade, Blankers-Koen HOL 47.5 Strickland, Maston, McKinnon, King AUS 47.6 Myers, MacKay, Foster, Jones CAN 47.8
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