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Beatrice Chebet ( KEN) The 10,000 metres at the Summer Olympics is the longest track running event held at the multi-sport event. The men's 10,000 m has been present on the Olympic athletics programme since 1912. The women's event was added to the programme over seventy years later, at the 1988 Olympics. It is the most prestigious 10,000 m race ...
Women. Linet Masai (KEN) 30:26.50 (2008) The 10,000 metres or the 10,000-metre run is a common long-distance track running event. The event is part of the athletics programme at the Olympic Games and the World Athletics Championships, and is common at championship-level events. The race consists of 25 laps around an Olympic-sized track.
Before the event was recognised by the IAAF as an official world record event the 3000 metres was the most common international women's long-distance track event, although women did sometimes compete over 10,000 m before its addition to the World Championships and Olympic programme in 1987 and 1988, respectively. [4]
Grant Fisher wins the final in the men's 10,000 meters at the U.S. Olympic track and field trials in June. Could Fisher become the first American to win the 10,000 meters in decades?
EUGENE, Ore. — Grant Fisher won the men’s 10,000-meter race Friday at Hayward Field, becoming the first American track and field athlete to punch their ticket to the Paris Olympics.
Weini Kelati, right, Parker Valby, left, and Karissa Schweizer finish first, second and third in the women’s 10,000 meters during day nine of the U.S. Olympic Track & Field Trials Saturday, June ...
In November 2019, World Athletics (WA; formerly IAAF) also deleted several long-distance events (track distances of 20,000 metres, 25,000 metres and 30,000 metres and road distances of 15 km, 20 km, 25 km and 30 km) from the world record books.
Grant Jackson Fisher (born April 22, 1997) [ 2] is an American middle- and long-distance runner. Fisher holds American records in the 3000 m, two mile, 5000 m, and 10,000 m events. At the 2024 Paris Olympics, Fisher won bronze medals in the 5000 m and 10,000 m, becoming the first American to medal in both events at an Olympic Games.