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South africas caster semenya runs past the olympic flame in her womens 800m round 1 heat. It contains all records since athens 1896 and is searchable by olympic games, sport or event. There are separate winter and summer olympic editions. Javascript must be enabled for the correct page display. He became the first man to hold both the 100 meters and 200 meters world records. The athletics events, which take place at each games, are divided into four groups. With an eye on the london olympics there is a special section within that part of the book concerning sports, dedicated to the olympic movement. The olympic games and world records book is a collection of the finest achievements on sports greatest platform and a celebration of the legends created by some of the most distinguished names in sporting history. These records are maintained in each weight class for the snatch lift, clean and jerk lift, and the total for both lifts. Olympic records records in olympics, ioc olympic records. The oldest world record belongs to jarmila kratochvilova 800m track race 1. Alina jamaica has the united states turned in there as the lineup. The womens 4x100m record set at london 2012 by team usa.
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