Athletics at the 2012 Summer Olympics

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Athletics
at the Games of the XXX Olympiad
VenueOlympic Stadium
Dates3–12 August 2012
Competitors2,231 (1,160 men, 1,071 women)[1][2]
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The athletics competitions at the 2012 Olympic Games in London were held during the last 10 days of the Games, on 3–12 August. Track and field events took place at the Olympic Stadium in east London. The road events, however, started and finished on The Mall in central London.[3]

Over 2,000 athletes from 201 nations competed in 47 events in total, with both men and women having a very similar schedule of events. Men competed in 24 events and women in 23, of which 21 were the same for both. The women's schedule lacked the 50 km race walk and included 100 m hurdles and heptathlon as opposed to the men's 110 m hurdles and decathlon. The youngest participant in the athletics competition was Andorran 15-year-old Cristina Llovera while the oldest was 46-year-old Ukrainian Oleksandr Dryhol.[4] South African Oscar Pistorius became the first amputee sprinter to compete at the Olympics.[5]

Competition schedule[edit]

The venue for the track and field events was the Olympic Stadium while the walks and the marathons started and finished on The Mall.[6] In the tables below, M stands for morning and A for afternoon.

Legend
P Preliminary round Q Qualification H Heats ½ Semifinals F Final
Men[7]
Date → 3 Aug 4 Aug 5 Aug 6 Aug 7 Aug 8 Aug 9 Aug 10 Aug 11 Aug 12 Aug
Event ↓ M A M A M A M A M A M A M A M A M A M A
100 m Q H 12 F
200 m H 12 F
400 m H 12 F
800 m H 12 F
1500 m H 12 F
5000 m H F
10,000 m F
110 m hurdles H 12 F
400 m hurdles H 12 F
3000 m steeplechase H F
4 × 100 m relay H F
4 × 400 m relay H F
Marathon F
20 km walk F
50 km walk F
Long jump Q F
Triple jump Q F
High jump Q F
Pole vault Q F
Shot put Q F
Discus throw Q F
Javelin throw Q F
Hammer throw Q F
Decathlon F
Women
Date → 3 Aug 4 Aug 5 Aug 6 Aug 7 Aug 8 Aug 9 Aug 10 Aug 11 Aug 12 Aug
Event ↓ M A M A M A M A M A M A M A M A M A M A
100 m H 12 F
200 m H 12 F
400 m H 12 F
800 m H 12 F
1500 m H 12 F
5000 m H F
10,000 m F
100 m hurdles H 12 F
400 m hurdles H 12 F
3000 m steeplechase H F
4 × 100 m relay H F
4 × 400 m relay H F
Marathon F
20 km walk F
Long jump Q F
Triple jump Q F
High jump Q F
Pole vault Q F
Shot put Q F
Discus throw Q F
Javelin throw Q F
Hammer throw Q F
Heptathlon F

Medal summary[edit]

(WR = World Record, OR = Olympic Record)

Medal table[edit]

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 United States1110728
2 Jamaica45413
3 Great Britain4206
4 Ethiopia3238
5 Kenya24713
6 China24410
7 Australia2103
8 Poland2002
9 Germany1528
10 Russia1326
11 Trinidad and Tobago1124
12 Czech Republic1113
 France1113
14 Dominican Republic1102
15 Algeria1001
 Bahamas1001
 Bahrain1001
 Croatia1001
 Grenada1001
 Hungary1001
 Kazakhstan1001
 New Zealand1001
 South Africa1001
 Tunisia1001
 Uganda1001
26 Cuba0123
27 Botswana0101
 Canada0101
 Colombia0101
 Finland0101
 Guatemala0101
 Iran0101
 Qatar0101
 Slovenia0101
35 Ukraine0033
36 Estonia0011
 Ireland0011
 Italy0011
 Japan0011
 Lithuania0011
 Morocco0011
 Puerto Rico0011
 Spain0011
Totals (43 entries)474946142

Note: Three competitors tied for silver in the men's high jump event.

Men[edit]

Event Gold Silver Bronze
100 metres
details
Usain Bolt
 Jamaica
9.63
(OR)
Yohan Blake
 Jamaica
9.75 Justin Gatlin
 United States
9.79
200 metres
details
Usain Bolt
 Jamaica
19.32 Yohan Blake
 Jamaica
19.44 Warren Weir
 Jamaica
19.84
400 metres
details
Kirani James
 Grenada
43.94 Luguelín Santos
 Dominican Republic
44.46 Lalonde Gordon
 Trinidad and Tobago
44.52
800 metres
details
David Rudisha
 Kenya
1:40.91
(WR)
Nijel Amos
 Botswana
1:41.73 Timothy Kitum
 Kenya
1:42.53
1500 metres
details
Taoufik Makhloufi
 Algeria
3:34.08 Leonel Manzano
 United States
3:34.79 Abdalaati Iguider
 Morocco
3:35.13
5000 metres
details
Mo Farah
 Great Britain
13:41.66 Dejen Gebremeskel
 Ethiopia
13:41.98 Thomas Longosiwa
 Kenya
13:42.36
10,000 metres
details
Mo Farah
 Great Britain
27:30.42 Galen Rupp
 United States
27:30.90 Tariku Bekele
 Ethiopia
27:31.43
110 metres hurdles
details
Aries Merritt
 United States
12.92 Jason Richardson
 United States
13.04 Hansle Parchment
 Jamaica
13.12
400 metres hurdles
details
Félix Sánchez
 Dominican Republic
47.63 Michael Tinsley
 United States
47.91 Javier Culson
 Puerto Rico
48.10
3000 metres steeplechase
details
Ezekiel Kemboi
 Kenya
8:18.56 Mahiedine Benabbad
 France
8:19.08 Abel Mutai
 Kenya
8:19.73
4 × 100 metres relay
details [a]
 Jamaica (JAM)
Nesta Carter
Michael Frater
Yohan Blake
Usain Bolt
Kemar Bailey-Cole*
36.84
(WR)
 Trinidad and Tobago (TRI)
Keston Bledman
Marc Burns
Emmanuel Callender
Richard Thompson
38.12  France (FRA)
Jimmy Vicaut
Christophe Lemaitre
Pierre-Alexis Pessonneaux
Ronald Pognon
38.16
4 × 400 metres relay
details
 Bahamas (BAH)
Chris Brown
Demetrius Pinder
Michael Mathieu
Ramon Miller
2:56.72  United States (USA)
Bryshon Nellum
Joshua Mance
Tony McQuay
Angelo Taylor
Manteo Mitchell*
2:57.05  Trinidad and Tobago (TRI)
Lalonde Gordon
Jarrin Solomon
Ade Alleyne-Forte
Deon Lendore
2:59.40
Marathon
details
Stephen Kiprotich
 Uganda
2:08:01 Abel Kirui
 Kenya
2:08:27 Wilson Kipsang Kiprotich
 Kenya
2:09:37
20 kilometres walk
details
Chen Ding
 China
1:18:46
(OR)
Érick Barrondo
 Guatemala
1:18:57 Wang Zhen
 China
1:19:25
50 kilometres walk
details [b]
Jared Tallent
 Australia
3:36:53
(OR)
Si Tianfeng
 China
3:37:16 Robert Heffernan
 Ireland
3:37:54
High jump
details [c]
Erik Kynard
 United States
2.33 Mutaz Essa Barshim
 Qatar
Derek Drouin
 Canada
Robert Grabarz
 Great Britain
2.29 not awarded
(tie for silver)
Pole vault
details
Renaud Lavillenie
 France
5.97
(OR)
Björn Otto
 Germany
5.91 Raphael Holzdeppe
 Germany
5.91
Long jump
details
Greg Rutherford
 Great Britain
8.31 Mitchell Watt
 Australia
8.16 Will Claye
 United States
8.12
Triple jump
details
Christian Taylor
 United States
17.81 Will Claye
 United States
17.62 Fabrizio Donato
 Italy
17.48
Shot put
details
Tomasz Majewski
 Poland
21.89 David Storl
 Germany
21.86 Reese Hoffa
 United States
21.23
Discus throw
details
Robert Harting
 Germany
68.27 Ehsan Haddadi
 Iran
68.18 Gerd Kanter
 Estonia
68.03
Hammer throw
details
Krisztián Pars
 Hungary
80.59 Primož Kozmus
 Slovenia
79.36 Koji Murofushi
 Japan
78.71
Javelin throw
details [d]
Keshorn Walcott
 Trinidad and Tobago
84.58 Antti Ruuskanen
 Finland
84.12 Vítězslav Veselý
 Czech Republic
83.34
Decathlon
details
Ashton Eaton
 United States
8869 Trey Hardee
 United States
8671 Leonel Suárez
 Cuba
8523
*Indicates the athlete only competed in the preliminary heats.
  • 4 × 100 metres relay Tyson Gay was stripped of his silver medal due to a doping violation.[8] The United States team was disqualified.[9][10]
  • 50 kilometres walk On 24 March 2016, the Court of Arbitration for Sport has issued decision that all competitive results obtained by Sergey Kirdyapkin of Russia from 20 August 2009 to 15 October 2012 are disqualified for doping use.[11] Redistribution of the medals in this event occurred on 17 June 2016, with Tallent awarded the gold medal by the IOC at a ceremony in Melbourne, Australia,[12] with Si claiming silver and Heffernan bronze.
  • high jump Gold medalist Ivan Ukhov of Russia was disqualified for doping in 2019. Medals were reallocated in 2021.[13]
  • javelin throw Original silver medalist Oleksandr Pyatnytsya of Ukraine was stripped of his silver medal and result following a positive finding in a retest of his 2012 anti-doping sample.[14][15] On 24 February 2017 Antti Ruuskanen received the silver medal in Finland.[16] On 28 June 2017 Vítězslav Veselý received the bronze medal in Czech Republic.[17]

Women[edit]

Event Gold Silver Bronze
100 metres
details
Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce
 Jamaica
10.75 Carmelita Jeter
 United States
10.78 Veronica Campbell-Brown
 Jamaica
10.81
200 metres
details
Allyson Felix
 United States
21.88 Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce
 Jamaica
22.09 Carmelita Jeter
 United States
22.14
400 metres
details
Sanya Richards-Ross
 United States
49.55 Christine Ohuruogu
 Great Britain
49.70 DeeDee Trotter
 United States
49.72
800 metres
details [e]
Caster Semenya
 South Africa
1:57.23 Ekaterina Poistogova
 Russia
1:57.53 Pamela Jelimo
 Kenya
1:57.59
1500 metres
details [f]
Maryam Yusuf Jamal
 Bahrain
4:10.74 Tatyana Tomashova
 Russia
4:10.90 Abeba Aregawi
 Ethiopia
4:11.03
5000 metres
details
Meseret Defar
 Ethiopia
15:04.25 Vivian Cheruiyot
 Kenya
15:04.73 Tirunesh Dibaba
 Ethiopia
15:05.15
10,000 metres
details
Tirunesh Dibaba
 Ethiopia
30:20.75 Sally Kipyego
 Kenya
30:26.37 Vivian Cheruiyot
 Kenya
30:30.44
100 metres hurdles
details
Sally Pearson
 Australia
12.35
(OR)
Dawn Harper
 United States
12.37 Kellie Wells
 United States
12.48
400 metres hurdles
details [k]
Lashinda Demus
 United States
52.77 Zuzana Hejnová
 Czech Republic
53.38 Kaliese Spencer
 Jamaica
53.66
3000 metres steeplechase
details [g]
Habiba Ghribi
 Tunisia
9:08.37 Sofia Assefa
 Ethiopia
9:09.84 Milcah Chemos Cheywa
 Kenya
9:09.88
4 × 100 m relay
details
 United States (USA)
Tianna Madison
Allyson Felix
Bianca Knight
Carmelita Jeter
Jeneba Tarmoh*
Lauryn Williams*
40.82
(WR)
 Jamaica (JAM)
Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce
Sherone Simpson
Veronica Campbell-Brown
Kerron Stewart
Samantha Henry-Robinson*
Schillonie Calvert*
41.41  Ukraine (UKR)
Olesya Povh
Hrystyna Stuy
Mariya Ryemyen
Elyzaveta Bryzgina
42.04
4 × 400 m relay
details [h]
 United States (USA)
DeeDee Trotter
Allyson Felix
Francena McCorory
Sanya Richards-Ross
Keshia Baker*
Diamond Dixon*
3:16.87  Jamaica (JAM)
Christine Day
Rosemarie Whyte
Shericka Williams
Novlene Williams-Mills
Shereefa Lloyd*
3:20.95  Ukraine (UKR)
Alina Lohvynenko
Olha Zemlyak
Hanna Yaroshchuk
Nataliya Pyhyda
3:23.57
Marathon
details
Tiki Gelana
 Ethiopia
2:23:07
(OR)
Priscah Jeptoo
 Kenya
2:23:12 Tatyana Arkhipova
 Russia
2:23:29
20 kilometres walk
details [i]
Qieyang Shenjie
 China
1:25:16

(OR)

Liu Hong
 China
1:26:00 Lü Xiuzhi
 China
1:27:10
High jump
details [j]
Anna Chicherova
 Russia
2.05 Brigetta Barrett
 United States
2.03 Ruth Beitia
 Spain
2.00
Pole vault
details
Jenn Suhr
 United States
4.75 Yarisley Silva
 Cuba
4.75 Yelena Isinbayeva
 Russia
4.70
Long jump
details
Brittney Reese
 United States
7.12 Yelena Sokolova
 Russia
7.07 Janay DeLoach
 United States
6.89
Triple jump
details
Olga Rypakova
 Kazakhstan
14.98 Caterine Ibargüen
 Colombia
14.80 Olha Saladukha
 Ukraine
14.79
Shot put
details [k]
Valerie Adams
 New Zealand
20.70 Gong Lijiao
 China
20.22 Li Ling
 China
19.63
Discus throw
details [l]
Sandra Perković
 Croatia
69.11 Li Yanfeng
 China
67.22 Yarelys Barrios
 Cuba
66.38
Hammer throw
details [m]
Anita Włodarczyk
 Poland
77.60 Betty Heidler
 Germany
77.13 Zhang Wenxiu
 China
76.34
Javelin throw
details
Barbora Špotáková
 Czech Republic
69.55 Christina Obergföll
 Germany
65.16 Linda Stahl
 Germany
64.91
Heptathlon
details [n]
Jessica Ennis
 Great Britain
6955 Lilli Schwarzkopf
 Germany
6649 Austra Skujytė
 Lithuania
6599
*Indicates the athlete only competed in the preliminary heats.

Records[edit]

World and Olympic records[edit]

A total of four world records in athletics and eleven Olympic records were broken during the competition. This was fewer than were set at the Beijing Olympics (5 world, 17 Olympic records) but greater than the number set at the 2004 Games in Athens (2 world, 10 Olympic records).

China's Chen Ding was the first Olympic record breaker, improving the men's 20 km walk record.[32] All three Olympic walk records were broken in London as Sergey Kirdyapkin bettered the Olympic 50 km walk time and Elena Lashmanova set a new world record in the women's 20 km walk.[33][34] However, both records from Russian racewalkers were later rescinded due to doping.

Usain Bolt was the first track athlete to improve an Olympic record as he defended his 100 m title with a run of 9.63 s.[35] He later joined the Jamaican 4 × 100 metres relay team (featuring Nesta Carter, Michael Frater and Yohan Blake) to set a world record time of 36.84 s.[36] The women's 4 × 100 metres relay event also saw a world record: an American team of Tianna Madison, Allyson Felix, Bianca Knight and Carmelita Jeter ran 40.82 seconds to take half a second off a record which had stood for nearly 27 years.[37][38] Further women's Olympic records were set by Ethiopia's Tiki Gelana in the marathon and Sally Pearson in the 100 metres hurdles.

David Rudisha improved his own 800 metres world record to 1:40.91 minutes, becoming the first man to break that record at the Olympics since Ralph Doubell did so at the 1968 Games.[39] Renaud Lavillenie was the only man to break a field event record, as he cleared an Olympic best of 5.97 m to win the pole vault competition.[40]

Event Date Name Nationality Result Type
Men's 100 metres 5 August Usain Bolt  Jamaica 9.63 OR
Men's 800 metres 9 August David Rudisha  Kenya 1:40.91 WR OR
Men's 4 × 100 metres relay 11 August Nesta Carter
Michael Frater
Yohan Blake
Usain Bolt
 Jamaica 36.84 WR OR
Men's 20 kilometres walk 4 August Chen Ding  China 1:18:46 OR
Men's 50 kilometres walk 11 August Jared Tallent  Australia 3:36:53 OR
Men's 50 kilometres walk 11 August Sergey Kirdyapkin  Russia 3:35:59 OR
Men's pole vault 10 August Renaud Lavillenie  France 5.97 m OR
Women's 100 metres hurdles 7 August Sally Pearson  Australia 12.35 OR
Women's marathon 5 August Tiki Gelana  Ethiopia 2:23:07 OR
Women's 20 kilometres walk 11 August Qieyang Shenjie  China 1:25:16 OR
Women's 20 kilometres walk 11 August Elena Lashmanova  Russia 1:25:02 WR OR
Women's 4 × 100 metres relay 10 August Tianna Madison
Allyson Felix
Bianca Knight
Carmelita Jeter
 United States 40.82 WR OR
Women's hammer throw 10 August Tatyana Lysenko  Russia 78.18 m OR

Doping[edit]

Prior to the Olympic competition, several prominent athletes were ruled out of the competition due to failed tests. World indoor medallists Dimitrios Chondrokoukis, Debbie Dunn, and Mariem Alaoui Selsouli were withdrawn from their Olympic teams in July for doping, as was 2004 Olympic medallist Zoltán Kővágó.[41][42][43] At the Olympic competition, Tameka Williams admitted to taking a banned stimulant and was removed from the games.[44] Ivan Tsikhan did not compete in the hammer throw as a re-test of his sample from the 2004 Athens Olympics, where he won silver, was positive.[45] Hassan Hirt,[46] Amine Laâlou,[47] Marina Marghieva,[48] Diego Palomeque,[49] and defending 50 km walk champion Alex Schwazer were also suspended before taking part in their events.[50]

Syrian hurdler Ghfran Almouhamad became the first track-and-field athlete to be suspended following a positive in-competition doping sample.[51] Nadzeya Astapchuk was stripped of the women's shot put title after her sample came back positive for the banned anabolic agent metenolone.[52] Karin Melis Mey was withdrawn before the long jump final when an earlier failed doping test was confirmed.[53]

Multiple medalists were found guilty of doping after the Olympics. Russia has the most (9) medals stripped.

See also[edit]

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External links[edit]

Media related to Athletics at the 2012 Summer Olympics at Wikimedia Commons

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