That makes them the first country to win back-to-back-to-back Olympic titles in the event since the U.S. won in 1968, '72 and '76. The first NCAA national championships were held for men in 1921, and women's track and field became part of the Olympic Games in 1928 . In 1952, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) sent its first Olympic team ever to the Summer Games in Helsinki, Finland, where the squad captured several track-and-field medals. @allysonfelix takes the BRONZE, her 10th Olympic medal, tying Carl Lewis for the most by a U.S. track and field athlete. Men's 800 metres world record holder David Rudisha defended his 800 m Olympic title, being the first man in over half a century to achieve that. 2016 Olympics Track And Field Results Allyson Felix Wins. No limits.”, Athletics at the 2016 Summer Olympics (Rio2016.com), https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Athletics_at_the_2016_Summer_Olympics&oldid=1036391819, International athletics competitions hosted by Brazil, Short description is different from Wikidata, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 31 July 2021, at 07:28. The 2016 US Outdoor Track and Field championships are officially known as the 2016 Olympic Team Trials – Track and Field. Derek Drouin won Canada's first Olympic gold in athletics in twenty years in the men's high jump. Found inside – Page 205Throwers had the highest body mass of for men and women overall 90.4 ± 18.3 kg (Hirsch et al., 2016). Thus, female weightlifters and female track and field ... In the trials’ field events, 2016 Olympic gold medalist Ryan Crouser launched the shot put 76 feet, 8.25 inches, shattering the world record of 75 feet, 10.25 inches by nearly a foot. With her final throw of the event, Michelle Carter won the United States' first ever title in the women's shot put, preventing Valerie Adams from winning a third straight title. Youth JO Track & Field Championships. 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[5], The relay teams entered were the top eight finishers at the 2015 IAAF World Relays plus the next eight highest ranking teams on the seasonal lists (based on an aggregate of their best two times).[6].