Olympic 2024 raises the standard of athletes' performance
Similar to the rules that have been set for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics and the 2022 World Athletics Championships, WA aims to lock 50% of athletes to win a place to go directly to Paris to compete through the standard form of achievement. The remaining 50% will be demarcated based on the world ranking of each content.
All athletics events at the 2024 Olympic Games have been upgraded to a standard of performance, requiring athletes to be faster and stronger to earn a direct entry to the competition in Paris from August 2 to August 11. /2024.
The new standard WA sets for the men's marathon of Paris 2024 is even higher than the current world number one marathoner Eliud Kipchoge's achievement when he won the gold medal in this content in the last two Olympics. This Keynanese legend respectively reached 2 hours 8 minutes 44 seconds in Rio 2016 and 2 hours 8 minutes 38 seconds in Tokyo 2020.
The fact that WA raised the standard of performance when considering athletes who won direct tickets to Paris 2024 came from the fact that the number of athletes exceeded expectations at Tokyo 2020. At that time, because the achievement standard was considered not difficult enough, the marathon content of the World Championships. This Olympics has up to 106 male and 88 female athletes, while WA wants to limit it to 160 athletes, including 80 men and 80 women, similar
In Paris 2024, WA also wants to limit 80 male and 80 female marathon runners. The winning group will be counted for the selection process from November 1, 2022 to April 30, 2024.
The Olympic marathon record is currently 2 hours 6 minutes 32 seconds in the men's category held by the late Kenyan athlete Samuel Wanjiru in Beijing 2008. Three after setting the record, Wanjiru died of an accident - falling from balcony of private house in Nyahururu - in 2011, enjoying 24 years old. The female record belongs to Ethiopian athlete Tiki Gelana with 2 hours 23 minutes 07 seconds set in London 2012.
Kipchoge holds the men's world record of 2 hours 1 minute 9 seconds set at the Berlin Marathon 2022. The women's world record of 2 hours 14 minutes 4 seconds was set by another Kenyan athlete, Brigid Kosgei at the 2019 Chicago Marathon.
