Meet The SLOWEST 2024 Paris Olympians
By LetsRun.com
Citius, altius, fortius – Faster, higher, stronger – is the motto of the Olympic Games. But not everyone can be the fastest. What if the motto of the Games was “Tardior, inferior, debilior” – Slower, lower, weaker?
Below we show you the slowest Olympic qualifiers for all of the mid-d and distance events in Paris. For each middle distance or distance track event, we list the athletes that got in on World Ranking and have run the slowest. We’ve also listed those that were given a Universality Place as their country’s only Olympic track and field entrant.
Slowest athletes to qualify for the 2024 Olympics
Men’s 800:
Ryan Clarke, Netherlands
World Ranking: 32
Best Performance (In qualification period): 1:45.31
Universality Place
Alex Beddoes, Cook Islands
World Ranking: N/A
Best Performance: 1:47.90
Women’s 800:
Assia Raziki, Morocco
World Ranking: 47
Best Performance (In qualification period): 2:01.36
Universality Place
World Ranking: 558
Best Performance (In qualification period): 2:09.87
Men’s 1500:
Maciej Wyderka, Poland
World Ranking: 55
Best Performance (In qualification period): 3:35.09
Women’s 1500:
Yume Goto, Japan
World Ranking: 75
Best Performance (In qualification period): 4:09.61
Men’s 3000 Steeplechase:
Bilal Tabti, Algeria
World Ranking: 75
Best Performance (In qualification period): 8:23.32
Women’s 3000 Steeplechase:
Tatiane Raquel Da Silva, Brazil
World Ranking: 38
Best Performance (In qualification period): 9:41.29
Men’s 5,000 Meters:
Jonas Raess, Switzerland
World Ranking: 42
Best Performance (In qualification period): 13:15.54
Women’s 5,000 Meters:
World Ranking: 95
Best Performance (In qualification period): 15:33.03
Men’s 10,000 Meters:
Martin Magengo Kiprotich, Uganda – Cross Country
World Ranking: 230
Best Performance (In qualification period): 28:46.10
Women’s 10,000 Meters:
Annet Chemengich Chelangat, Uganda – Cross Country
World Ranking: 227
Best Performance (In qualification period): 34:32.25
Women’s Marathon
Luz Mery Rojas, Peru
World Rank: 359
Best Performance (In qualification period): 2:26:47
Universality Place
Kinzang Lhamo, Bhutan
Work Rank: N/A
Best Performance (In qualification period): 3:26:42
Men’s Marathon
Elroy Gelant, South Africa
World Rank: 208
Best Performance (In qualification period): 2:08:56
Universality Place
Mo’ath Alkhawaldeh, Jordan
World Rank: 1471
Best Performance (In qualification period): 2:21:17
Most of those athletes are still quite fast. And it’s way better to make it than not make it all. Speaking of which, there are two US track and field Olympians who wouldn’t be Olympians in 2024 if they were British as the British don’t send everyone eligible to go – they have stricter requirements than the IOC. The following two US Olympians are in Paris but are below the British standards.
Erin Reese – Women’s Hammer Throw
Curtis Thompson – Men’s Javelin
It’s sad the British wouldn’t take Curis Thompson. He’s ranked #14 out of 32 entered in Paris but his sb of 83.04m is below the 83.79 British standard.
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