These are the world athletics records that could be broken in Paris 2024

In Paris 2024 The best athletes in the world will participate and some of them will stand out even more for being extraordinary. Athletics tournaments are held from August 1 to 11with 48 disciplines and 144 medals to be distributed over the eleven days of the competition. There will be exactly the same number of male and female participants and the big news is the inclusion of mixed relay of the march, which will replace the individual 50 kilometer test. In total, there will be 2,000 athletes coming from more than 200 countries, along with 36 Olympic champions at Tokyo 2020 who will defend their title in Paris. The most successful country in the history of the Games is USAwith 827 medals in athletics alone, 344 of which were gold.

With all this on the table, great fame at the international level is for athletes who have the options to establish new world records thanks to their enormous talent. Works that remain for future generations in everyone’s memory and form names that become legends. You can start with many names, but there is a Spanish one that has the ability to achieve this, Jordan Diaz. The 23-year-old triple jumper of Cuban origin won the European Championship in Rome with a triple jump of 18.18m, the third best mark of all time and just 11 centimeters from the world record. Jonathan Edwards. In Paris there will be a triple jumper of such a level that it will be mandatory to jump a lot to win gold, a stimulus that could lead to a new record.

Another of those more than exceptional athletes is the Swedish pole vaulter Mondo Duplantis, who has the ability to raise his record this year above 6.24 meters. In Saint-Denis his main rival is himself and, when he is left alone in the competition with already gold, he will try to break the record. The same ability to fly that the Ukrainian has Yaroslava Mahuchkhwho at the Diamond League in Paris on July 7 broke the historical height record of Stefka Kostadinova and expanded it to 2.10 meters. It has been 37 years since an athlete managed to jump so high and in Saint-Denis he will have a new opportunity to continue expanding this historic mark.

He also proved to arrive in exceptional shape. Sydney McLaughlin, who lowered his own world record for the 400 hurdles at the ‘Trials USA’ and left it at 50”65. A bit of a warning of what he can do which is not surprising because in Tokyo 2020 he already managed to win gold in the world record. The Dutch girl was next to him Femke Bol, another rare Cuartocentista capable of anything. Her male counterpart, Karsten Warholmis not coming in the best shape of his life – at Tokyo 2020 he set the world record at 45.94 -, but he will be the great favorite for victory along with Rai Benjamin and Alisson dos Santos.

In the 800m, the historic record he achieved David Rudisha at the 2012 London Games with 1’40”91 he was more than a threat to the Algerian Djamel Sedjati (1’41”46) as the main candidate. It all depends on whether there is a tactical race or they start running to the best of their ability. The Spanish Mohamed Attaouiwho ran 1’42”04 in the Monaco Diamond League, will also have the opportunity to play a great role.

In the discus throw, Mykolas Alekna set a new universal record in April this year with a throw of 74.35m. Faith Kipyegon He broke the 1,500m record a year ago with 3’49”11 and will be a major favorite to repeat the win for a third successive Games. It will also come with many options to establish a new record for the Kenyan Beatrice Chebet, who set the 10,000 meter record this year in 28’54”14. In distance events it is more difficult to see records without the help of hares to set the pace and with the tactical aim of achieving medals above all. In the modalities held outside the stadium, the marathon and the walk, it is almost impossible to expect records except for the mixed relay, which debuted this year and has no record lists.

The main candidate to be a good opponent of the Game is Noah Lyles, who will try to do the triple in the 100m, 200m and 4x100m and emulate the dominance established by Usain Bolt in his time. In addition, he assures that the American relay quartet dreams of a record and that they see themselves capable of achieving it. This is perhaps the most impressive record for Lyles, who despite being a great specialist in the 200m, is still a step away from reaching the Jamaican lightning.