Track And Field Olympic Medals

The best all time performing track and field athlete at the olympic games is finnish distance runner paavo nurmi who competed between 1920 and 1928 and won 12 medals including 9 gold medals.

Track and field olympic medals.

His long jump world record stood for 25 years. Media caption olympic gold medal win a marvellous achievement. To see a list of the individual medalists go here. American track and field athlete jesse owens won four gold medals at the 1936 berlin olympic games.

Athletics has been contested at every summer olympics since the birth of the modern olympic movement at the 1896 summer olympics the athletics program traces its earliest roots to events used in the ancient greek olympics the modern program includes track and field events road running events and racewalking events. 9 medals 6 g 3 s felix is the only female track and field athlete to ever win six olympic gold medals and her nine medals are tied for the most ever won by a. Decade awards track field patriotic engraved medal 2 75 inch wide running medallion with stars and stripes american flag v neck ribbon customize now 4 6 out of 5 stars 4 7 99 7. Below is a list of track and field medals won at the 2016 olympics organized by country.

Cross country running was also on the program in earlier editions but it was. Develop our nation s best. Jamaican usain bolt also won 9 golds but a relay gold was taken off him later when a team mate was found guilty of doping. Welsh athletes have only ever won four track and field olympic gold medals and half came 100 years ago.

Become a usatf member today. This is the complete list of men s medalists in athletics at the summer olympics it does not include the medalists from the athletics at the 1906 intercalated games these are no longer regarded as an official part of the olympic chronology by the ioc.