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The athletics competitions at the 2012 Olympic Games in London were held during the last 10 days of the Games, on 3–12 August. Track and field events took place at the Olympic Stadium in east London. The road events, however, started and finished on The Mall in central London.

Medal summary

(WR = World Record, OR = Olympic Record)

Men

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Usain Bolt  Jamaica	9.63 (OR)	Yohan Blake  Jamaica	9.75	Justin Gatlin  United States	9.79
200 metres	Usain Bolt  Jamaica	19.32	Yohan Blake  Jamaica	19.44	Warren Weir  Jamaica	19.84
400 metres	Kirani James  Grenada	43.94	Luguelín Santos  Dominican Republic	44.46	Lalonde Gordon  Trinidad and Tobago	44.52
800 metres	David Rudisha  Kenya	1:40.91 (WR)	Nijel Amos  Botswana	1:41.73	Timothy Kitum  Kenya	1:42.53
1500 metres	Taoufik Makhloufi  Algeria	3:34.08	Leonel Manzano  United States	3:34.79	Abdalaati Iguider  Morocco	3:35.13
5000 metres	Mo Farah  Great Britain	13:41.66	Dejen Gebremeskel  Ethiopia	13:41.98	Thomas Longosiwa  Kenya	13:42.36
10,000 metres	Mo Farah  Great Britain	27:30.42	Galen Rupp  United States	27:30.90	Tariku Bekele  Ethiopia	27:31.43
110 metres hurdles	Aries Merritt  United States	12.92	Jason Richardson  United States	13.04	Hansle Parchment  Jamaica	13.12
400 metres hurdles	Félix Sánchez  Dominican Republic	47.63	Michael Tinsley  United States	47.91	Javier Culson  Puerto Rico	48.10
3000 metres steeplechase	Ezekiel Kemboi  Kenya	8:18.56	Mahiedine Benabbad  France	8:19.08	Abel Mutai  Kenya	8:19.73
4×100 metres relay [a]	Jamaica (JAM) Nesta Carter Michael Frater Yohan Blake Usain Bolt Kemar Bailey-Cole*	36.84 (WR)	Trinidad and Tobago (TRI) Keston Bledman Marc Burns Emmanuel Callender Richard Thompson	38.12	France (FRA) Jimmy Vicaut Christophe Lemaitre Pierre-Alexis Pessonneaux Ronald Pognon	38.16
4×400 metres relay	Bahamas (BAH) Chris Brown Demetrius Pinder Michael Mathieu Ramon Miller	2:56.72	United States (USA) Bryshon Nellum Joshua Mance Tony McQuay Angelo Taylor Manteo Mitchell*	2:57.05	Trinidad and Tobago (TRI) Lalonde Gordon Jarrin Solomon Ade Alleyne-Forte Deon Lendore	2:59.40
Marathon	Stephen Kiprotich  Uganda	2:08:01	Abel Kirui  Kenya	2:08:27	Wilson Kipsang Kiprotich  Kenya	2:09:37
20 kilometres walk	Chen Ding  China	1:18:46 (OR)	Erick Barrondo  Guatemala	1:18:57	Wang Zhen  China	1:19:25
50 kilometres walk [b]	Jared Tallent  Australia	3:36:53 (OR)	Si Tianfeng  China	3:37:16	Robert Heffernan  Ireland	3:37:54
High jump	Ivan Ukhov  Russia	2.38	Erik Kynard  United States	2.33	Mutaz Essa Barshim  Qatar Derek Drouin  Canada Robert Grabarz  Great Britain	2.29
Pole vault	Renaud Lavillenie  France	5.97 (OR)	Björn Otto  Germany	5.91	Raphael Holzdeppe  Germany	5.91
Long jump	Greg Rutherford  Great Britain	8.31	Mitchell Watt  Australia	8.16	Will Claye  United States	8.12
Triple jump	Christian Taylor  United States	17.81	Will Claye  United States	17.62	Fabrizio Donato  Italy	17.48
Shot put	Tomasz Majewski  Poland	21.89	David Storl  Germany	21.86	Reese Hoffa  United States	21.23
Discus throw	Robert Harting  Germany	68.27	Ehsan Haddadi  Iran	68.18	Gerd Kanter  Estonia	68.03
Hammer throw	Krisztián Pars  Hungary	80.59	Primož Kozmus  Slovenia	79.36	Koji Murofushi  Japan	78.71
Javelin throw	Keshorn Walcott  Trinidad and Tobago	84.58	Oleksandr Pyatnytsya  Ukraine	84.51	Antti Ruuskanen  Finland	84.12
Decathlon	Ashton Eaton  United States	8869	Trey Hardee  United States	8671	Leonel Suárez  Cuba	8523

*Indicates the athlete only competed in the preliminary heats.

• ^a Tyson Gay was stripped of his silver medal due to doping violations. Following consideration by the IOC, the United States team were disqualified, and their results expunged. The decision was referred back to the IAAF for other results to be adjusted in the wake of the disqualification, promoting Trinidad and Tobago to silver, and France to bronze. The French team received their bronze medals at the IAAF Diamond League in Paris in July 2015.

• ^b On 24 March 2016, the Court of Arbitration for Sport has issued decision that all competitive results obtained by Sergey Kirdyapkin from 20 August 2009 to 15 October 2012 are disqualified. IOC has not yet confirmed the Sergey Kirdyapkin's deprivation of his gold medal in men's 50km walk and redistribution of the medals in this event.

Women

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce  Jamaica	10.75	Carmelita Jeter  United States	10.78	Veronica Campbell-Brown  Jamaica	10.81
200 metres	Allyson Felix  United States	21.88	Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce  Jamaica	22.09	Carmelita Jeter  United States	22.14
400 metres	Sanya Richards-Ross  United States	49.55	Christine Ohuruogu  Great Britain	49.70	DeeDee Trotter  United States	49.72
800 metres	Mariya Savinova  Russia	1:56.19	Caster Semenya  South Africa	1:57.23	Ekaterina Poistogova  Russia	1:57.53
1500 metres [c]	Vacant		Gamze Bulut  Turkey	4:10.40	Maryam Yusuf Jamal  Bahrain	4:10.74
5000 metres	Meseret Defar  Ethiopia	15:04.25	Vivian Cheruiyot  Kenya	15:04.73	Tirunesh Dibaba  Ethiopia	15:05.15
10,000 metres	Tirunesh Dibaba  Ethiopia	30:20.75	Sally Kipyego  Kenya	30:26.37	Vivian Cheruiyot  Kenya	30:30.44
100 metres hurdles	Sally Pearson  Australia	12.35 (OR)	Dawn Harper  United States	12.37	Kellie Wells  United States	12.48
400 metres hurdles	Natalya Antyukh  Russia	52.70	Lashinda Demus  United States	52.77	Zuzana Hejnová  Czech Republic	53.38
3000 metres steeplechase [d]	expected will be disqualified Yuliya Zaripova  Russia	9:06.72	Habiba Ghribi  Tunisia	9:08.37	Sofia Assefa  Ethiopia	9:09.84
4×100 metres relay	United States (USA) Tianna Madison Allyson Felix Bianca Knight Carmelita Jeter Jeneba Tarmoh* Lauryn Williams*	40.82 (WR)	Jamaica (JAM) Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce Sherone Simpson Veronica Campbell-Brown Kerron Stewart Samantha Henry-Robinson* Schillonie Calvert*	41.41	Ukraine (UKR) Olesya Povh Hrystyna Stuy Mariya Ryemyen Elyzaveta Bryzgina	42.04
4×400 metres relay	United States (USA) DeeDee Trotter Allyson Felix Francena McCorory Sanya Richards-Ross Keshia Baker* Diamond Dixon*	3:16.87	Russia (RUS) Yulia Gushchina Antonina Krivoshapka Tatyana Firova Natalya Antyukh Natalya Nazarova* Anastasiya Kapachinskaya*	3:20.23	Jamaica (JAM) Christine Day Rosemarie Whyte Shericka Williams Novlene Williams-Mills Shereefa Lloyd*	3:20.95
Marathon	Tiki Gelana  Ethiopia	2:23:07 (OR)	Priscah Jeptoo  Kenya	2:23:12	Tatyana Arkhipova  Russia	2:23:29
20 kilometres walk e	Elena Lashmanova  Russia	1:25:02 (WR)	expected will be disqualified Olga Kaniskina  Russia	1:25:09	Qieyang Shenjie  China	1:25:16
High jump	Anna Chicherova  Russia	2.05	Brigetta Barrett  United States	2.03	Svetlana Shkolina  Russia	2.03
Pole vault	Jenn Suhr  United States	4.75	Yarisley Silva  Cuba	4.75	Yelena Isinbayeva  Russia	4.70
Long jump	Brittney Reese  United States	7.12	Yelena Sokolova  Russia	7.07	Janay DeLoach  United States	6.89
Triple jump	Olga Rypakova  Kazakhstan	14.98	Caterine Ibargüen  Colombia	14.80	Olha Saladukha  Ukraine	14.79
Shot put [f]	Valerie Adams  New Zealand	20.70	Yevgeniya Kolodko  Russia	20.48	Gong Lijiao  China	20.22
Discus throw [g]	Sandra Perković  Croatia	69.11	Li Yanfeng  China	67.22	Yarelys Barrios  Cuba	66.38
Hammer throw	Tatyana Lysenko  Russia	78.18 (OR)	Anita Włodarczyk  Poland	77.60	Betty Heidler  Germany	77.13
Javelin throw	Barbora Špotáková  Czech Republic	69.55	Christina Obergföll  Germany	65.16	Linda Stahl  Germany	64.91
Heptathlon	Jessica Ennis  Great Britain	6955	Lilli Schwarzkopf  Germany	6649	Tatyana Chernova  Russia	6628

*Indicates the athlete only competed in the preliminary heats.

• ^c On 17 August 2015, the Court of Arbitration for Sport says it approved a settlement agreed to by Turkish athlete Aslı Çakır Alptekin and the IAAF. Alptekin has agreed to forfeit her 1500 metres Olympic title and serve an eight-year ban for blood doping. IOC has not yet confirmed the redistribution of the medals in this event.
• ^d On 30 January 2015, the Russian Anti-Doping Agency confirmed that runner Yuliya Zaripova will be stripped of her gold medal in the 3,000 metres steeplechase after testing positive for anabolic steroids. IOC has not yet decided on the case and has not yet stripped the medal.
• ^e On 24 March 2016, the Court of Arbitration for Sport has issued decision that all competitive results obtained by Olga Kaniskina from 15 August 2009 to 15 October 2012 are disqualified. IOC has not yet confirmed the Olga Kaniskina's deprivation of her silver medal in women's 20km walk and redistribution of the medals in this event.
• ^f The original winner, Nadzeya Ostapchuk of Belarus, was stripped of her gold medal after failing drugs tests. The rest of the competitors were elevated by one position accordingly.
• ^g The original silver medalist, Darya Pishchalnikova of Russia, was stripped of her silver medal after failing drugs tests. The rest of the competitors were elevated by one position accordingly.

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States	9	12	7	28
2	Russia	7	4	5	16
3	Jamaica	4	4	4	12
4	Great Britain	4	1	1	6
5	Ethiopia	3	1	3	7
6	Kenya	2	4	5	11
7	Australia	2	1	0	3
8	Germany	1	4	3	8
9	China	1	2	3	6
10	Dominican Republic	1	1	0	2
	France	1	1	0	2
	Poland	1	1	0	2
13	Trinidad and Tobago	1	0	3	4
14	Czech Republic	1	0	1	2
15	Algeria	1	0	0	1
	Bahamas	1	0	0	1
	Croatia	1	0	0	1
	Grenada	1	0	0	1
	Hungary	1	0	0	1
	Kazakhstan	1	0	0	1
	New Zealand	1	0	0	1
	Uganda	1	0	0	1
23	Cuba	0	1	2	3
	Ukraine	0	1	2	3
25	Botswana	0	1	0	1
	Colombia	0	1	0	1
	Guatemala	0	1	0	1
	Iran	0	1	0	1
	South Africa	0	1	0	1
	Slovenia	0	1	0	1
	Tunisia	0	1	0	1
	Turkey	0	1	0	1
33	Bahrain	0	0	1	1
	Canada	0	0	1	1
	Estonia	0	0	1	1
	Finland	0	0	1	1
	Ireland	0	0	1	1
	Italy	0	0	1	1
	Japan	0	0	1	1
	Morocco	0	0	1	1
	Puerto Rico	0	0	1	1
	Qatar	0	0	1	1
Total		46	46	49	141

Note: Three competitors tied for bronze in the men's high jump event.

Records

World and Olympic records

A total of four world records in athletics and eleven Olympic records were broken during the competition. This was fewer than were set at the Beijing Olympics (5 world, 17 Olympic records) but greater than the number set at the 2004 Games in Athens (2 world, 10 Olympic records).

China's Chen Ding was the first Olympic record breaker, improving the men's 20 km walk record. All three Olympic walk records were broken in London as Sergey Kirdyapkin bettered the Olympic 50 km walk time and Elena Lashmanova set a new world record in the women's 20 km walk.

Usain Bolt was the first track athlete to improve an Olympic record as he defended his 100 m title with a run of 9.63 s. He later joined the Jamaican 4 × 100 metres relay team (featuring Nesta Carter, Michael Frater and Yohan Blake) to set a world record time of 36.84 s. The women's 4 × 100 metres relay event also saw a world record: an American team of Tianna Madison, Allyson Felix, Bianca Knight and Carmelita Jeter ran 40.82 seconds to take half a second off a record which had stood for nearly 27 years. Further women's Olympic records were set by Ethiopia's Tiki Gelana in the marathon, Sally Pearson in the 100 metres hurdles and Tatyana Lysenko in the hammer throw.

David Rudisha improved his own 800 metres world record to 1:40.91 minutes, becoming the first man to break that record at the Olympics since Ralph Doubell did so at the 1968 Games. Renaud Lavillenie was the only man to break a field event record, as he cleared an Olympic best of 5.97 m to win the pole vault competition.

Event	Date	Name	Nationality	Result	Type
Men's 100 metres	5 August	Usain Bolt	Jamaica	9.63	OR
Men's 800 metres	9 August	David Rudisha	Kenya	1:40.91	WR OR
Men's 4 × 100 metres relay	11 August	Nesta Carter Michael Frater Yohan Blake Usain Bolt	Jamaica	36.84	WR OR
Men's 20 kilometres walk	4 August	Chen Ding	China	1:18:46	OR
Men's 50 kilometres walk	11 August	Jared Tallent	Australia	3:36:53	OR
Men's pole vault	10 August	Renaud Lavillenie	France	5.97 m	OR
Women's 100 metres hurdles	7 August	Sally Pearson	Australia	12.35	OR
Women's marathon	5 August	Tiki Gelana	Ethiopia	2:23:07	OR
Women's 20 kilometres walk	11 August	Elena Lashmanova	Russia	1:25:02	WR OR
Women's 4 × 100 metres relay	10 August	Tianna Madison Allyson Felix Bianca Knight Carmelita Jeter	United States	40.82	WR OR
Women's hammer throw	10 August	Tatyana Lysenko	Russia	78.18 m	OR

Participating Nations

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