The most extraordinary Olympic and world records broken at Paris 2024

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Every 4 years, the best athletes in the world gather to show How the human body can push even further boundaries.

In Paris 2024 they fought More than 50 Olympic and world recordstwo distinct categories of brands.

Each sport that makes up the Olympic Games is governed by a federation, which can organize its own world championships.

Olympic records are those set only at the Olympic Games, while world records are set at all official tournaments of the respective federation, which can occur every two years or even more often.

At the level of prestige, World records represent the highest performance ever achieved, while Olympic records have the aura of this historic event..

That being said, here we share with you a selection of the most extraordinary records broken in Paris 2024, including three from Latin America.

Four golds, four Olympic records: the swimmer Leon Marchand France is the athlete with the most new records at the Games.

His first gold medal at Paris 2024 was in the 400-meter individual medley. With a time of 4:02.95, he beat Michael Phelps’ Olympic record of 4:03.84.

Then he got the rare feat of winning two individual golds in the same swimming sessionbreaking two Tokyo 2020 Olympic records.

He won the 200-metre butterfly in 1:51.21 (the record was held by Hungarian Kristof Milak at 1:51.25) and, less than two hours later, he returned to the pool to win the 200-metre breaststroke. He completed the event in 2:05.85, eclipsing the mark of 2:06.38 set by Australian Zac Stubblety-Cook.

Finally, the 22-year-old Frenchman finished the 200-meter individual medley event in 1:54.06, breaking another Olympic record for Phelps (1:54.23).

And if all this were not enough, she also won a bronze medal in the 4×100 medley relay.

South Korea reigned supreme in archery, winning gold in all five events: men’s and women’s individual, men’s and women’s team, and mixed.

But, furthermore, Led by archer Lim Si-hyeon, she set a world record and two Olympic records.surpassing records already held by South Korean athletes.

In particular, Si-hyeon, 21, scored 694 points in the women’s individual event of 72 arrows at 70 meters, beating the world record of her compatriot Kang Chae-young, who had scored 692 in 2019.

In the women’s team event, where Si-hyeon competed alongside Jeon Hun-young and Nam Su-hyeon, the team achieved a total of 2,046 points, breaking the Olympic record of 2,032 achieved in Tokyo 2020 by a trio that also included Chae-young, An San and Jang Min-hee.

In the mixed event, Si-hyeon and Kim Woo-jin broke another Olympic record by scoring 1,380 points. The previous record was 1,368, which was set by the aforementioned duo of An San and Kim Je-deok at the last Games.

South Korea also took home a silver and a bronze medal in this discipline.

Armand “Mondo” Duplantis He managed to jump 6 meters and 25 centimeters in the pole vault competition.

The 24-year-old Swede, Not only did he set a new world record, but it’s the ninth time he’s done it..

Such was his talent that he beat the records of Sam Hendricks of the United States and Emmanouil Karalis of Greece by 30 and 35 centimetres, who took home silver and bronze respectively.

What Duplantis did is so impressive that we created the graphic below to better explain the true magnitude of his leap.

In strictly numerical terms, Katie Ledecky broke an Olympic record.

It was in the 1,500-meter freestyle, a test that earned her gold and which she completed in 15:30.02, beating her own record of 15:35.35 from Tokyo 2020.

But the American, described by Phelps as “the best swimmer of our time,” achieved other historic feats.

She came in first in the 800m freestyle, taking her total to nine gold medals. This equalled the number of women with the most gold medals in Olympic history, Soviet gymnast Larisa Latynina.

With this victory also tied Phelps in the feat of having achieved four Olympic golds in a single swimming event.

Ledecky, 27, also won a bronze medal in the 400-meter freestyle and a silver medal alongside her teammates in the 4×200-meter relay in Paris.

This brings her total to 14 medals in four games, making her the woman with the most medals in the history of Olympic swimming.

The speed test in sport climbing has become new world records both in the women’s and men’s events where they both beat themselves.

On the one hand, the Polish Aleksandra MiroslawThe 30-year-old reached the top in 6.06 seconds, breaking his own world record of 6.24 and taking home the gold medal.

On the other hand, the American Tom WatsonThe 18-year-old completed his race in 4.74 seconds, beating the mark of 4.75 he had set just two days earlier. The previous world record was also his: it was 4.79 and he had set it in April.

However, Watson was eliminated in the semi-finals and ended up with a bronze medal.

Adriana Ruano She became Guatemala’s first Olympic champion and did so in a big way.

Not only did she win the gold medal, the first for her country, but she also broke an Olympic record.

The 29-year-old competed in the trap event, where she knocked down 45 of the 50 targets. Rehak Stefecekova of Slovakia had a record of 43 since Tokyo 2021.

For his part, the Mexican Emiliano Hernandez He clocked 9:40.80/720 in the laser run, breaking the world record of 9:44.80/716 previously set by Czech Martin Vlach last year.

However, the 26-year-old finished fourth and left Paris without a medal.

Finally, the athlete Marileidy Paulino from the Dominican Republic ran the women’s 400 meters in just 48.17 seconds.

The Olympic record for this event was 48.25 seconds and had been set by Frenchwoman Marie-José Perec in Atlanta 1996. In other words, the mark had remained unbeaten since the year Paulino was born.

Now this athletics test, considered the most difficult by science because it requires a fine balance between speed and endurance, has a new Olympic queen.

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