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2024 Meeting De Paris
The 2024 Meeting de Paris was the 29th edition of the annual outdoor track and field meeting in Paris, France. Though held in the same city as the 2024 Summer Olympics, the meeting was not held at the Olympic stadium track, the Stade de France. Held on 7 July at the Stade Sébastien Charléty, it was the eighth leg of the 2024 Diamond League – the highest level international track and field circuit. This was the fifth time the meeting was held on the stadium's renovated blue running track. Highlights At the meeting, two world records were broken in the women's high jump (by Yaroslava Mahuchikh) and women's 1500 m (by Faith Kipyegon). Other notable performances occurred in the men's 800 meters, where three athletes ran under the 1:42 barrier; France's Gabriel Tual (1:41.61), Kenya's Emmanuel Wanyonyi (1:41.58), who previously broke the 1:42 barrier at the 2024 Kenyan Olympic Trials, and Algeria's Djamel Sedjati (1:41.56). Results Athletes competing in the Diamond Leag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stade Sébastien Charléty
Stade Sébastien-Charléty (; ), also known as Stade Charléty or Charléty, is a multi-purpose stadium located in the 13th arrondissement of Paris, France. Comprising a running track and a football field, the stadium is a 20,000-seat state-owned venue used for numerous sports and events. It is also the current home ground of the rugby union team of Paris Université Club, who operate the venue, and the association football clubs Paris FC and Paris 13 Atletico. History The stadium opened in 1938 and was designed by French architect Bernard Zehrfuss. In May 1968, Charléty made the news for a nonsporting event: on 27 May, the meeting of the Union Nationale des Étudiants de France, one of the most important of the protests of that month, took place, attracting between 30,000 and 50,000 people. The crowd, led by Pierre Mendès-France and Michel Rocard, shouted "''Ce n'est qu'un début, continuons le combat!''" ("This is only the beginning; let's keep up the fight!"). Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2024 Athletics Kenya Olympic Trials
The 2024 Athletics Kenya Olympic Trials was an athletics meeting held by Athletics Kenya to select the Kenyan team in athletics at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, France. The meeting was held June 14–15, 2024 in Nyayo National Stadium in Nairobi, Kenya. Unlike other countries' trials, the 2024 Kenyan trials did not also serve as that year's national championshipsa separate Kenyan Athletics Championships was held earlier in May 2024. The top two qualified athletes per event were to be guaranteed Olympic team spots, and if there were multiple options for a third qualified athlete in any event, they were chosen via committee. The first day was highlighted by Faith Kipyegon making her season debut to win the 5000 metres, reigning World Athletics Championships winner Mary Moraa losing the 800 m to Lilian Odira, and Reynold Cheruiyot winning the men's 1500 metres The 1500 metres or 1,500-metre run (typically pronounced 'fifteen-hundred metres') is the foremost middle distance ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andreas Kramer
Andreas Kramer (born 13 April 1997) is a Swedish middle-distance runner specialising in the 800 metres. He won the silver medal at the 2018 European Championships. With the performance of 1:49.62 he is the current European junior indoor record holder. Competition record Personal bests Outdoor *800 metres – 1:44.47 NR (Ostrava 2020) *1000 metres – 2:16.96 NR (Gothenburg 202*1500 metres – 3:47.28 (Stockholm 2015) Indoor *400 metres – 47.75 (Ulsteinvik 2019) *800 metres – 1:45.09 NR (Torun 2021) *1500 metres The 1500 metres or 1,500-metre run (typically pronounced 'fifteen-hundred metres') is the foremost middle distance track event in athletics. The distance has been contested at the Summer Olympics since 1896 and the World Championships in Athle ... – 3:46.62 (Sätra 2017) References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Kramer, Andreas 1997 births Living people Swedish male middle-distance runners Place of birth missing (living people) World Athletic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eliott Crestan
Eliott Crestan (born 22 February 1999) is a Belgian middle-distance runner specialising in the 800 metres. He won a bronze medal at the 2018 World U20 Championships. International competitions Personal bests Outdoor *400 metres – 47.02 (Nivelles 2021) *800 metres – 1:44.24 (Brussels 2022) *1500 metres – 3:47.17 (Ninove 2018) Indoor *400 metres – 47.97 (Louvain-la-Neuve 2022) *800 metres – 1:46.11 (Louvain-la-Neuve 2022) NR *1500 metres The 1500 metres or 1,500-metre run (typically pronounced 'fifteen-hundred metres') is the foremost middle distance track event in athletics. The distance has been contested at the Summer Olympics since 1896 and the World Championships in Athletic ... – 3:46.44 (Louvain-La-Neuve 2020) References External links * * * 1999 births Living people Belgian male middle-distance runners Olympic athletes for Belgium Athletes (track and field) at the 2020 Summer Olympics {{Belgium-athletics-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wyclife Kinyamal
Wyclife Kinyamal (born 2 July 1997) is a Kenyan male middle-distance runner who competes in the 800 metres. He won a gold medal at the 2018 Commonwealth Games and holds a personal best of 1:43.12 minutes. Career Born in Trans Mara District,Wycliffe Kinyamal GC2018. Retrieved 2018-04-12. he made his first impact regionally at the 2016 East and Central Africa Junior Athletics Championships, winning the 800 m. He placed third at the Kenyan World Junior trials later that year, thus was not picked for the national team. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aaron Cheminingwa
Aaron Kemei Cheminingwa (born 21 June 1998) is a Kenyan middle distance runner. He won the gold medal at the 2023 African Games in the 800 metres. Career In the 2020s, he began to be coached by Alex Sang, whose other athletes include Kenyan 800 metres world champion Mary Moraa. He ran a 800 metres personal best time of 1:44.24 at the National Stadium, Nairobi on 6 March 2024. Cheminingwa then won gold in the 800 metres at the 2023 African Games in Accra, Ghana on 20 March 2024. It was his debut run in a Kenyan vest, and he became the first Kenyan to win that distance at the games since Japheth Kimutai in 1999. On 20 April 2024, he finished as runner-up in the 800 metres at the Kip Keino Classic in Kenya, only finishing behind a world-leading run by Emmanuel Wanyonyi. In doing so, Cheminingwa lowered his personal best to 1:44:10. He ran a personal best time of 1:43.55 on May 23, 2024 in Asti, Italy. He lowered his personal best again at the 2024 Meeting de Paris in July 2024 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Reais
William Reais (born 4 May 1999) is a Swiss sprinter competing primarily in the 200 metres. He competed in the 200 metres at the 2020 Summer Olympics. He also holds the Swiss national indoor record for the same event. Achievements Information from his World Athletics profile unless otherwise noted. Personal bests Outdoor *100 metres – 10.35 (La Chaux-de-Fonds 2020) *200 metres – 20.24 (Basel 2020) *400 metres – 46.39 (Bellinzona 2020) Indoor * 60 metres – 6.66 (Magglingen 2021) *200 metres – 20.97 (Magglingen 2021) NR International competitions Circuit wins and titles * IAAF World Challenge Meeting ** 2023: Ostrava Golden Spike (4 x 100 m relay) National titles * Swiss Athletics Championships ** 100 metres: 2023 ** 200 metres: 2020, 2022, 2023 * Swiss Indoor Athletics Championships ** 200 metres: 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021 * Swiss U23 Championships ** 100 metres: 2021 ** 400 metres: 2020 * Swiss U20 Championships ** 200 metres: 2017, 2018 * Swiss U20 Indoor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jerome Blake
Jerome Blake (born August 18, 1995) is a Canadian track and field athlete specializing in the sprint events. As a member of the Canadian 4×100 m relay team, he is the 2020 Olympic silver medalist and the 2022 World champion. Career Early career Blake was born in Buff Bay, Jamaica, where he started his young track career as a hurdler in the 400 m. After attending his brother's soccer game, he began testing his speed on track which a coach noticed and convinced him to switch to sprinting. The Blake family moved to Canada in 2013, taking up residence in Kelowna, British Columbia initially, and eventually moving to Burnaby. Because he did not acquire Canadian citizenship until 2018, he was unable to participate in many international junior competitions, though he remarked that had he been born in Canada "I probably would have been playing hockey." Blake competed for British Columbia at the 2017 Canada Summer Games where he won gold in both the 100 m and 200 m. D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Filippo Tortu
Filippo Tortu (born 15 June 1998) is an Italian sprinter with a personal best in the 100 meters of 9.99, the first Italian in history to break the 10 seconds barrier. He won the gold medal in 100 metres at the 2017 European U20 Championships and the silver medal at the 2016 World U20 Championships. He ran the anchor leg in the 4×100m relay of the Italian team that won the gold medal at the 2020 Summer Olympics. He won the bronze medal in 200 metres at the 2022 European Championships. He is coached by his father, Salvino Tortu, a former Sardinian sprinter who moved to Lombardy. Biography Born in Milan but with Sardinian origins (his father, Salvino Tortu, is a former runner too), he began to play sports at the age of eight years, dividing his time between track and field and basketball. In 2010 and 2011, he won the title of fastest runner in Milan while competing in the categories ''prima media'' and ''seconda media'' (first and second years of middle school). He then start ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ryan Zeze
Ryan Zeze (born 29 January 1998) is a French athlete. He competed in the men's 4 × 100 metres relay event at the 2020 Summer Olympics The , officially the and also known as , was an international multi-sport event held from 23 July to 8 August 2021 in Tokyo, Japan, with some preliminary events that began on 21 July. Tokyo was selected as the host city during the .... References External links * 1998 births Living people French male sprinters Athletes (track and field) at the 2020 Summer Olympics Olympic athletes of France People from Louviers European Athletics Championships medalists {{France-athletics-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tarsis Orogot
Tarsis Gracious Orogot (born 24 November 2002) is a Ugandan sprinter. Orogot gained his first experience at international championships in 2021, when he finished fourth in the 200 meter dash at the U20 World Championships in Nairobi in 20.57 s and set a Ugandan national record in the semifinals with 20.37 s. He also reached the semifinals in the 100m, where he was eliminated with a time of 10.37s. He represents Uganda at the 2022 World Athletics Championships. In 2023, running for the University of Alabama, he ran 20.20 for 200m indoors to set a world-leading mark in Albuquerque. This mark is an Ugandan record. Personal bests *100 m: 10.35s (+1.4 m/s), 1 July 2021 in Nairobi ( Ugandan record) *200 m: 19.94 s (+0.6 m/s), 7 June 2022 in Austin (Ugandan record) References 2002 births Living people Commonwealth Games competitors for Uganda Ugandan male sprinters Alabama Crimson Tide men's track and field athletes {{Uganda-athletics-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
