Which world and Olympic records have been broken at Paris 2024? Which athletes and teams have made history at the Games?
Published 07/08/2024 at 14:25 GMT+1
There have been a host of Olympic and world records broken by athletes at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, but who are the athletes or teams to have made history? Armand Duplantis, Katy Marchant, Leon Marchand and Lim Si-hyeon are among those who have put their named in the history books. The velodrome and the aquatics arena have seen the most records tumble, exciting spectators.
‘Unthinkable’ Miroslaw world record leaves commentators without words
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So far, 24 records have been smashed at the Paris 2024 Olympics – but who are the athletes that have etched their names in history?
Athletics
Cole Hocker became the most recent athlete to break the Olympic record in the men’s 1500m to produce a shock victory over favourites Josh Kerr and Jakob Ingebrigtsen to take home the gold medal.
Hocker produced a run of 3:27.65 to pick up the USA's 23rd gold medal of the Games, breaking the previous Olympic record of 3:28.32 which was set by Ingebrigtsen at Tokyo 2020.
The incredible Armand Duplantis smashed his own pole vault world record in incredible fashion, completing a jump of 6.25m, edging out his previous 6.24m record. It was the eighth, yes eighth, time that the Swede has produced a world record jump.
Duplantis is reportedly paid by his sponsors a bonus amount between $30,000 and $100,000 every time he breaks the world record.
It looked like no one was going to break Kenenisa Bekele's Olympic record in the men's 10,000m set in 2008. Bekele ran the race in a time of 27:01.17, but Joshua Cheptegei broke the Ethopian's record that was held for four Olympic Games. Cheptegei completed the 10,000m in a time of 26:43:14.
Climbing
Polish speed climber Aleksandra Miroslaw broke her own world record twice in a matter of minutes during the qualifying round.
Miroslaw completed her second climb in just 6.06s, breaking her previous record of 6.24s, with commentators describing the Polish climber's effort as "unbelievable".
Cycling
Team GB’s women’s team sprint trio of Katy Marchant, Sophie Capewell and Emma Finucane set a whopping three world records on the way to their gold medal.
The British team completed the final with a time of 45.186, setting the current world record, while also breaking the world record in their heat and qualifying.
It was a world record feast throughout the women’s team sprint, with Germany and New Zealand both also temporarily breaking world records, but it was Team GB who has the current record.
Perhaps there was something in the track at St-Quentin-en-Yvelines Velodrome, as the Dutch men’s team sprint side broke their own Olympic record from Tokyo.
Roy van den Berg, Harrie Lavreysen and Jeffrey Hoogland raced round the track in just 41.279, beating the time of 41.369 they set in Tokyo.
Australian Matthew Richardson produced an incredible ride in the men's sprint to set a world record of 9.091, as records continued to tumble in the track cycling events.
Richardson was under pressure after Mikhail Iakovlev set an Olympic record, but the Australian blitzed that time straight away to go top of the qualifying event.
Richardson's world record did not even last five minutes, as Dutch cyclist Harrie Lavreysen completed his ride in just 9.088.
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Swimming
Despite speculation that the pool at the Paris La Defense Arena was slow, a whole host of athletes still managed to break records in the swimming events.
American swimmer Bobby Finke won gold and broke a 12-year-old world record in the men's 1,500m freestyle, with a time of 14:31.02.
The previous world record was held by Sun Yang with a time of 14:30.67. The Chinese swimmer set the previous record at the London 2012 Olympic Games.
Gretchen Walsh, Torri Huske, Lilly King and Regan Smith absolutely blitzed the world record in the women's 4x100m medley relay.
The Team USA quartet made a mockery of the previous world record, finishing in 3:49.62, beating the previous record by almost a second.
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Kaylee McKeown broke the women's 200m backstroke Olympic record set at London 2012 by Missy Franklin, finishing the race in 2:03.73.
The Australian swimmers didn't settle for just one Olympic record, with the women's 4x200m freestyle relay team breaking China's Olympic record set in Tokyo.
Gold medal winners Mollie O'Callaghan, Lani Pallister, Briana Throssell and Ariarne Titmus set a time of 7:38.08, which is two seconds quicker than China's previous record.
O'Callaghan broke three Olympic records in total across the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, as the Australian women dominated in the pool.
O'Callaghan, who won three gold medals, won the women's 200m freestyle with an Olympic record swim of 1:53.27, breaking her teammate Titmus' record from Tokyo.
The women's 4x100m freestyle relay was also won by Australia, with the O'Callaghan, Shayna Jack, Emma McKeon and Meg Harris smashing their own Olympic record of 3:29.69 from Tokyo. The Australian quartet completed the race in Paris with a time of 3:28.92.
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Team Australia Australia's Mollie O'callaghan, Australia's Lani Pallister, Australia's Brianna Throssell and Australia's Ariarne Titmus celebrate after winning the women's 4x200m freestyle relay swimming event during the Paris 2024 Olympic Games
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Did you think that Leon Marchand was not going to be part of this article? Of course he is. The French superstar broke two Olympic records on his way to picking up four gold medals and one bronze.
Marchand broke Zac Stubblety-Cook's 200m breaststroke record from Tokyo, with a time of 2:05.85.
Marchand also broke Olympic legend Michael Phelps' 16-year long record in the men's 200m individual medley, completing the race with a time of 4:02.95.
Gretchen Walsh just missed out on gold in the women's 100m butterfly, but produced an Olympic record swim during the semi-finals. The American broke Sarah Sjostrom’s Rio 2016 record with a time of 55.38s.
Pan Zhanle was the only swimmer to break a world record in Paris, breaking his own world record from February's World Championships, with a time of 46.40s in the men's 100m freestyle.
Rugby Sevens
New Zealand took home the gold medal in the women's rugby sevens, while also breaking an Olympic record on the way.
The Kiwis beat China in the quarter-final 55-5, which was an Olympic points record, previously held by Australia.
Although Australia lost in the bronze medal match against Team USA, Maddison Levi broke the Olympic record from 2016 for the highest number of tries across the tournament.
Levi scored 11 tries for Australia, breaking Portia Woodman-Wickliffe's record from Rio 2016.
Shooting
New shooting superstar Oh Ye-jin broke the Olympic record in the women's 10m air pistol on her way to a gold medal.
Oh produced a score of 243.2, beating Vitalina Batsarashkina's score of 240.3 from Tokyo.
In the men's 10m air rifle event, Sheng Lihao beat American Shaner William's Olympic record from Tokyo with an excellent score of 252.2 to take gold.
Surfing
Surfing was introduced as an Olympic sport at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics and therefore, it is no suprise the Olympic record has already been broken here in Paris.
Brazilian surfer Gabriel Medina produced a brilliant score of 9.90 on a single wave during the fifth heat. This was the highest score for a single wave to have taken place in the Olympics.
Archery
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Lim Sihyeon, primer récord del mundo en París 2024.
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South Korean star Lim Si-hyeon produced an incredible performance to break both the Olympic and world records.
Lim scored 694 points out of a total 720, beating 680 which was the Olympic record from Tokyo and the world record which was 692. Lim was the first person to break a world record at the Paris 2024 Olympics.
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