The winning athletes (male listed first) and their represented countries are as follows:ġ948 - Mel Patton (U.S.) & Fanny Blankers-Koen (Netherlands)ġ952 - Andy Stanfield (U.S.) & Marjorie Jackson (Australia)ġ956 - Bobby Morrow (U.S.) & Betty Cuthbert (Australia)ġ960 - Livio Berruti (Italy) & Wilma Rudolph (U.S.)ġ964 - Henry Carr (U.S.) & Edith McGuire (U.S.)ġ968 - Tommie Smith (U.S.) & Irena Kirszenstein (Poland)ġ972 - Valeriy Borzov (USSR) & Renate Stecher (East Germany)ġ976 - Donald Quarrie (Jamaica) & Bärbel Eckert-Wöckel (East Germany)ġ980 - Pietro Mennea (Italy) & Bärbel Eckert-Wöckel (East Germany)ġ984 - Carl Lewis (U.S.) & Valerie Brisco (U.S.)ġ988 - Joe Deloach (U.S.) & Florence Griffith Joyner (U.S.)ġ992 - Michael Marsh (U.S.) & Gwen Torrence (U.S.)ġ996 - Michael Johnson (U.S.) & Marie-José Pérec (France)Ģ000 - Kostas Kenteris (Greece) & Pauline Davis (Bahamas)Ģ004 - Shawn Crawford (U.S.) & Veronica Campbell-Brown (Jamaica)Ģ008 - Usain Bolt (Jamaica) & Veronica Campbell-Brown (Jamaica)Ģ012 - Usain Bolt (Jamaica) & Allyson Felix (U.S. Great Britain and Northern Ireland, represented by the British Olympic Association (BOA), competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, United Kingdom, from 27 July to 12 August 2012 as the host nation and the team of selected athletes was officially known as Team GB.British athletes have competed at every Summer Olympic Games in the modern era, alongside Australia, France and Greece, though.
#London olympic gold medal update
This data was collected using the official site, as well as a spreadsheet from the Guardian that includes data from 1896-2008 ( available here), 20 data was compared with that from Encyclopaedia Britannica, and several news outlets were used to update the table when medals were reassigned (i.e. Jesse Owens and Carl Lewis (both from Alabama) are the only athletes to have won the "sprint-jump quadruple" winning golds in the 100m, 4x100m relay, 200m and long jump in the 19 Games respectively. Valerie Brisco-Hooks in 1984, along with Michael Johnson and Marie-José Pérec in 1996, are the only athletes to have won gold in both the 200m and 400m races at the same Olympics. BBC Sport rounds up all of Great Britains gold medals at the London 2012 Olympics. The 200m sprint attracts many competitors from the 100m sprint, with eleven men and eight women winning gold in both events in the same Olympics with many also winning team golds in the 4x100m relay. London Olympics: Every Great Britain gold medal. The women's Olympic and world record was set by Florence Griffith-Joyner in the Seoul Games in 1988 (where she also set the record in the 100m sprint) both of these records still stand today. In the women's event, three women have won the 200m gold twice Bärbel Eckert-Wöckel in 19 for East Germany, Veronica Campbell-Brown in 20 for Jamaica, and Elaine Thompson-Herah in 20, also for Jamaica. athletes on 13 overall medals.īetween 19, no male athlete won multiple Olympic golds in the event, however Jamaica's Usain Bolt, who holds the Olympic and world records, claimed gold in 2008, 20, as part of his "triple triple". have had the most success in these events, winning 17 golds and 48 overall medals in the men's, and six golds in the women's however, the past two decades have seen Jamaica emerge as the most dominant nation, with Jamaican women now tied with U.S. In the early 1900s, the 200m sprint was often held on a straight track (similar to the 100m sprint), but it has been in it's current format since the 1950s, where the first half of the race is along the curve of a 400m running track, while the second half is along a 100m stretch. Maddie Hinch, Laura Unsworth, Crista Cullen, Hannah MacLeod, Susannah Townsend, Kate Richardson-Walsh, Alex Danson, Giselle Ansley, Sophie Bray, Hollie Webb, Nicola White, Georgie Twigg, Helen Richardson-Walsh, Sam Quek, Shona McCallin, Lily Owsley (Hockey.The 200 meter sprint has been included as a men's event in all Olympic Games since Paris 1900, and a women's 200 meter event was introduced in London 1948. Nick Skelton (Equestrian, individual showjumping) Hannah Mills and Saskia Clarke (Sailing, women's 470)
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Jason Kenny (Cycling, men's individual pursuit)Ĭharlotte Dujardin (Equestrian, individual dressage) BEIJING (Global Times) Following a Chinese Olympian’s posting about her peeling Tokyo gold medal, another Olympic champion, Xu Lijia, has posted a video in which she said that her London Olympic gold medal had oxidized.
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In the video, the gold medal has clearly become tarnished. Max Whitlock (Gymnastics, men's floor and men's pommel horse) London Olympic gold medal ‘turns bronze’. Joanna Rowsell-Shand, Laura Trott, Elinor Barker, Kate Archibald (Cycling, women's team pursuit) Scott Durant, Tom Ransley, Andrew Triggs-Hodge, Matthew Gotrel, Pete Reed, Paul Bennett, Matt Langridge, William Satch, Phelan Hill (Rowing, men's eight) Great Britain's Helen Glover (left) and Heather Stanning (right) celebrate winning gold in the Women's Pair FinalĪlex Gregory, Mohamed Sbihi, George Nash and Constantine Louloudis (Rowing, men's four)īradley Wiggins, Owain Doull, Stephen Burke, Ed Clancy (Cycling, men's team pursuit)