Athletics at the 2012 Summer Olympics

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]

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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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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