List of medal sweeps in Olympic athletics
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Athletics
(excluding relays) the maximum for a single country is three.
In the beginning, before the Olympics became a global event, sweeps were more common amongst fewer competing countries and larger numbers of entries from a single country. After the 1908 Olympics, a sweep became an increasingly treasured status symbol of national dominance in an event. 1964 was the first Olympiad to have no sweeps. Since then there were no sweeps in 1972, 1996 and 2000.
Sweeps have happened in every long term event in the individual program, except the
Shot Put
. A steeplechase event has had a sweep five times, by four countries.
Glenn Davis and Lee Calhoun have also led two sweeps, Sedykh later a participant in a third in 1988 that involved a reordering of the same three from 1980. Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce
led the Jamaican 100m sweep in 2008 and participated in the 2020 Tokyo 100m sweep, with a silver.
Men
Women
In women's sports, sweeps have only occurred 9 times. The Pentathlon and the 100 metres are the only events to have more than one occurrence.
| Olympiad | Event | Country | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1952 Helsinki |
Discus throw |
 Soviet Union (URS)
|
Nina Romashkova 51.42 m
|
Elizaveta Bagryantseva 47.08 m
|
Nina Dumbadze 46.29 m |
| 1976 Montreal |
Pentathlon |
 East Germany (GDR)
|
Siegrun Siegl 4745 | Christine Laser 4745 | Burglinde Pollak 4740 |
| 1980 Moscow |
800 metres |
 Soviet Union (URS)
|
Nadiya Olizarenko 1:53.43 WR
|
Olga Mineeva 1:54.81
|
Tatyana Providokhina 1:55.46 |
| Pentathlon |
Soviet Union (URS)
|
Nadiya Tkachenko 5083 WR | Olga Rukavishnikova 4937 | Olga Kuragina 4875 | |
| 2004 Athens |
Long jump |
 Russia (RUS)
|
Tatyana Lebedeva 7.07 m | Irina Simagina 7.05 m | Tatyana Kotova 7.05 m |
| 2008 Beijing |
100 metres |
 Jamaica (JAM)
|
Shelly-Ann Fraser 10.78
|
Sherone Simpson 10.98 | none awarded |
| Kerron Stewart 10.98 | |||||
| 2012 London |
20 kilometres walk |
 China (CHN)
|
Qieyang Shenjie 1:25:16 OR
|
Liu Hong 1:26:00
|
Lü Xiuzhi 1:27:10 |
| 2016 Rio de Janeiro |
100 metre hurdles |
 United States (USA)
|
Brianna Rollins 12.48
|
Nia Ali 12.59 | Kristi Castlin 12.61 |
| 2020 Tokyo |
100 metres |
Jamaica (JAM)
|
Elaine Thompson-Herah 10.61 OR | Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce 10.74 | Shericka Jackson 10.76 |
See also
- Olympic sweeps in speed skating
- List of medal sweeps at the World Championships in Athletics
References
- ^ "Jamaicans celebrate Olympic medal sweep in men's 200m - Xinhua | English.news.cn". Archived from the original on 2014-09-20. Retrieved 2013-10-13.
- ^ "Athens 1896 Athletics High Jump Men Results". Olympics.com. Retrieved 8 August 2021.
- ^ "Athletics at the 1896 Athens Summer Games: Men's High Jump". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 8 August 2021.
- ^ "Athens 1896 Athletics Long Jump Men Results". Olympics.com. Retrieved 8 August 2021.
- ^ "Athletics at the 1896 Athens Summer Games: Men's Long Jump". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 8 August 2021.
- ^ "Paris 1900 Athletics 110m Hurdles Men Results". Olympics.com. Retrieved 8 August 2021.
- ^ "Athletics at the 1900 Paris Summer Games: Men's 110 metres Hurdles Final". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 8 August 2021.
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