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LONDON OLYMPICS A game of speed and distance

BY ALEX BORDENS | Tribune graphics AND LIZ SPANGLER AND JENNIFER PRANDATO | Special to the Tribune When events start on Friday, most competitions will be held at the Olympic Stadium. Record-breaking athletes are returning to the track to compete for gold and against history. Below is a guide to the bar that has been set and what it will take for this group of Olympians to best history. Men’s running world records Schedule of men’s events Individual events listed first in order of distance; hrs:min:sec SPEED OF RECORD TIME Fri. Sat. Sun. Mon. Tues. Wed. Thu. Fri. Sat. Sun. Record holder (year) Country Record In miles per hour 2 MPH EVENT 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 100m (2009) JAM 9.58 100m 4 110m hurdles Dayron Robles (2008) CUB 12.87 200m 200m Usain Bolt (2009) JAM 19.19 400m 400m Michael Johnson (1999) USA 43.18 6 400m hurdles (1992) USA 46.78 800m 800m David Lekuta Rudisha (2010) KEN 1:41.01 1,500m 1,500m (1998) MAR 3:26 5,000m

8 3,000m steeple (2004) QAT 7:53.63 10,000m 5,000m Kenenisa Bekele (2004) ETH 12:37.35 3,000m 10,000m Kenenisa Bekele (2005) ETH 26:17.53 steeplechase 20km race walk Vladimir Kanaykin (2007) RUS 1:17:16 10 Marathon (2011) KEN 2:03:38 h p 50km race walk Denis Nizhegorodov (2008) RUS 3:34:14 Relays m ph 5 m 6 . h 0 400m relay Jamaica (2011) 37.04 400m 9 p .7 8 m h 1,600m relay (1993) 2:54.29 1,600m h 2 p h p 7 m h . p

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Yuliya Pechonkina (2003) RUS 52.34 400m hurdles 800m 6 Marita Koch (1985) GDR 47.6 400m 1,500m (1988) USA 21.34 200m 5,000m Yordanka Donkova (1988) BUL 12.21 100m hurdles 4 SPEED OF 10,000m Florence Griffith Joyner (1988) USA 10.49 100m RECORD TIME in miles per hour 2 MPH 3,000m steeplechase Marathon Men’s throwing and jumping world records Mixed vertical Relays jumping world 400m records 7M 1,600m Hurdles Men’s 100m pole vault 6M Sergey 400m Bubka (1994) UKR Long jump Triple jump Shot put Discus Hammer Javelin Race walk 6.14m Mike Jonathan Randy Jurgen Yuriy Jan 5M Powell Edwards Barnes Schult Sedykh Zelezny 20km (1986) UKR (1996) CZE Women’s (1991) USA (1995) GBR (1990) USA (1986) GER pole vault 86.74m 98.48m 8.95m 18.29m 23.12m 74.08m Elena Throwing Isinbaeva 4M Discus (2009) RUS Women’s throwing and jumping world records 5.06m Hammer Javelin Men’s 3M high jump Shot put Javier Sotomayor Jumping (1993) CUB 2M High jump 2.45m Long jump Women’s Long jump Triple jump Shot put Javelin Discus Hammer Pole vault high jump 1M Galina Inessa Natalya Barbora Gabriele Betty Stefka Triple jump Chistyakova Kravets Lisovskaya Spotakova Reinsch Heidler Kostadinova (1988) RUS (1995) UKR (1987) RUS (2008) CZE (1988) GER (2011) GER (1987) BUL Heptathalon 7. 52m 15.5m 22.63m 72.28m 76.8m 79.42m 2.09m

Outlook for the U.S. team Lay of the land: Olympic Stadium U.S. trials winner (left), back from a Additional Triple jump/long jump dopingdo suspension, and American record holder competition START should challenge for gold in the 100. areas 1,500m American should push the Jamaicans in the 200. was clocked in a START Hammer world-leading 12.93 seconds three times in the 200m, 3,000m 11110-meter hurdles. , who set a decath- Steeplechase, Discus lolon world record at the trials, could be joined on the 5,000m Pole vault memedal stand by . Justin For the women, world 100-meter champion High jump Gatlin CaCarmelita Jeter (right) won the final at the U.S. trialsls Javelin anand was second in the 200. Sanya Richards-Ross is atattempting a 200-400 double and is likely to run a Shot put relay. Carmelitita is part of a strong 100-meter hurdles Jeter cocontingent with champion Dawn Harper andd START START FINISH LINE . 110m hurdle 100m — Tribune Olympic Bureau START400m, 400m SOURCE: Londonnd 2012 GETTYTY PHOTOS hurdle, 800m, 10,000m