For the primary time in Olympic historical past, athletics will span your complete interval of the Video games.
The ladies’s 100m ultimate, certainly one of athletics’ blue riband occasions, will kick-start motion on the LA 2028 Olympics, with all three rounds of the occasion happening on the opening day (July 15).
The morning session will characteristic each the preliminary spherical – which showcases lower-ranked athletes – and the primary spherical, with the semi-finals and ultimate unfolding within the night session.
World Athletics has acknowledged that “the overwhelming majority of athletes who have been consulted mentioned they would like to do all rounds in sooner or later”, including that athletes instructed the governing physique “if they’ve two to a few years to plan and put together for this, they will and can do it”.
Sha’Carri Richardson, who secured the world 100m title in Budapest two years in the past and can nearly definitely be one of many greatest stars at her residence Olympics, mentioned: “Observe and discipline is having its second and the street to LA28 is about to be one thing particular, particularly for the ladies’s sprints. The expertise, power, and competitors … it’s all going to shine.
“Simply take a look at day one of many LA Video games. I’m locked in on carrying out some private objectives and doing my half to assist the game continue to grow and galvanizing the following technology at residence within the USA and throughout the globe.”
Dina Asher-Smith, who has claimed two world 100m medals on high of her 200m gold from 2019, mentioned: “It will likely be an honour for the ladies’s 100m to open the LA Video games. It’s such an thrilling alternative – celebrating enduring legacy, power and world energy of girls’s sprinting, precisely 100 years on from the primary time girls competed in Olympic Observe and Area.”
In addition to the ladies’s 100m, the boys’s 10,000m and ladies’s shot put finals can even characteristic within the opening session, adopted by the boys’s 100m ultimate on day two of the Video games.
In whole, athletics will probably be contested throughout 13 days between July 15-30, 2028. In-stadium competitors on the LA Memorial Coliseum – which hosted monitor and discipline motion on the LA 1984 Video games – will run for the primary 10 days (July 15-24), earlier than the main target shifts to the street occasions on July 27, 29 and 30, culminating within the males’s marathon on the ultimate day, with medals offered in the course of the closing ceremony.
Finals will characteristic in 17 of the 20 periods, with the schedule presenting double alternatives for athletes in occasions just like the 100m & 200m, 200m & 400m (plus relays), 800m & 1500m, 1500m & 5000m, 5000m & 10,000m, and lengthy leap & triple leap.
There can even be a brand new repechage format, which made its debut in Paris final summer season and was hotly debated.
Athletes could have no less than 36 hours between spherical one and the repechage within the 400m and round 24 hours in each the 800m and 1500m. The blended 4x100m relay can even make its Olympic debut, slotting between the 100m and 200m occasions.
At this stage, solely the occasion allocation per session has been finalised. World Athletics will now work with the LA28 Organising Committee for the Olympic Video games over the following two and a half years to finalise the detailed timetable.
World Athletics President Sebastian Coe mentioned: “It’s within the spirit of collaboration between World Athletics, LA28, Olympic Broadcasting Companies, IOC and NBC as Host Broadcaster that we have now landed on an athletics programme that may begin with a bang as our girls’s sprinters take centre stage on day one after which the boys’s sprinters on day two to maximise and maintain world curiosity after the Opening Ceremony.
“It’s a schedule that’s each revolutionary but additionally honours custom, with the boys’s marathon on the ultimate day, and, with one eye on LA84, athletes can dare to dream to emulate Olympic legends of the previous by way of the compelling proposition of the utmost quantity of potential doubles.”
