Olympic Event Study
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Event: Men Triple Jump
Shooting-Ben
Mens Shooting was first introduced in the athens 1896 But the womans wasnt introduced until the los angeles 1984
Károly Takács was the first shooter to win two Olympics gold medals in the 25 metre rapid fire pistol event, both with his left hand after his right hand was seriously injured.
He is renowned as the fastest and best all around shooter in the world, emptying a five-shot revolver in 0.57 seconds in a group the size of a playing card.Miculek currently holds five officially sanctioned world records in revolver shooting and over 15 unsanctioned records with firearms ranging from rapid firing pistols to the rifles.
Shooting Continued-Ben
At the 1908 Summer Olympics, Oscar Swahn won two gold medals in the running deer, single shot events (individual and team), and a bronze medal in the running deer double shot individual event. He was 60 years old, only a year younger than Joshua Millner, the oldest gold medalist at that time.
American teenager Virginia Thrasher stunned favoured rivals to win the first gold medal of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, showing nerves of steel to claim the women’s 10m air rifle event on Saturday (6 August) morning
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Event: Women's Synchronised Diving
Your name: Finn McKenzie
Event: Modern Pentathlon
The modern pentathlon consists of five sports: Fencing, 200m freestyle, show jumping, and a combination of pistol shooting and a 3200m cross country run for the final event. The modern pentathlon was first played in the stockholm olympic games in 1912 and Gustaf ‘Gösta’ Lilliehöök of Sweden. Gustaf didn’t actually win any of the individual events, his best rank was third in the shooting. The world record for this event is 1534 held by Russian Aleksander Lesun. Baron Coubertin (one of the founders of the modern pentathlon) designed the race to simulate an 1800s battle. You have to ride a horse that isn’t your own fight with a pistol and a sword and swim and run away from your enemies. Aleksander Lesun won the men’s modern pentathlon with 1479 points while Chloe Esposito won the women’s on 1372 points.
Nina
Men’s gymnastics started in the olympics in 1896. It was adapted from dismounting and mounting a horse. Then throughout the years it developed to a thing that is done is large groups all at the same time like aerobics.
The first gold medalist in vault was awarded to Carl Schuhmann from germany he won four olympic titles in both wrestling and gymnastics. He came forth in horizontal bars, seventh in parallel bars, seventh in pommel horse, fifth in rings and of course first in vault.
The world record holder is Simone Biles with a great score of 15.966.
Vault has evolved lots from when you used to just have to jump over a bull.
This year Simone Biles won gold in vault. She won four gold medals and one bronze medal.
Gymnastics (Vault)
Courtney McGregor NZ Gymnast 2016
Ruby Brett
Rhythmic Gymnastics
Rhythmic Gymnastics started in the late 19th century and was a form of physical training for dancers. It started to become competitive in 1961, the it was known as modern gymnastics. It became an Olympic sport in 1984 after slowly being recognised from other competitions.
Lori Fong was the first gold medalist in this sport at the age of 21 (from canada)
I didn’t manage to find a work record for this event but the top medalist in the sport is Evgeniya Kanaeva. She had won two gold medals in this event.
Along with synchronised swimming it is one of two sports in the olympics that is female only
Margarita Mamun won the women's individual round the year, winning her first gold.
Lori Fung
Bianca Floor Exercise
Gymnastics was founded in ancient Greece, and was used for military training, where it was used by soldiers to prepare for war. In the eighteenth nineteenth century two pioneer physical educators – Johann Friedrich GutsMuths (1759–1839) and Friedrich Ludwig Jahn(1778–1852) – created exercises for boys and young men on apparatus they had designed that led to what is called modern gymnastics. By the end of the nineteenth century, men's gymnastics competition was popular enough to be included in the first "modern" Olympic Games in 1896. From then on until the early 1950s, both national and international competitions involved a changing variety of exercises gathered under the rubric, gymnastics, that included for example, synchronized team floor calisthenics, rope climbing, high jumping, running, and horizontal ladder. During the 1920s, women organized and participated in gymnastics events. The first women's Olympic competition was primitive, only involving synchronized calisthenics and track and field. These games were held in 1928, in Amsterdam.
First medalist
Ágnes Keleti from Hungary was the first gold medalist for this event. She won this medal in 1952. Ágnes Keleti started Gymnastics at the age of 4. She became an olympic champion at the age of 16. She retired in 1958 and is now 95 years old.
World record
The world record for this event 15.966 the previous record was broken in Rio 2016 By Simone Biles. She won 4 gold medals and 1 bronze.
Interesting facts
These are the medalists for 2016
Partson
Bmx
Connor Fields Won the USA 1st BMX medal with a time of 34.64s Connor Fields holds the world record 34.64s ( I think ) Connor won gold for the usa and BMX started in the early 1970s when children began racing their bicycles on dirt tracks in Southern California, drawing inspiration from the motocross superstars of the time. Connor Fields is my favorite participant in the bmx he also won gold GO Connor He holds the world record of 34.64s
Sam’s Coxless Rowing Pair
(Hamish Bond and Eric Murray)
Coxless Pair is one of the rowing competitions in the olympics where two people row a boat with sweep oars, 1 oar on each side of the boat. The racing boats are long and narrow and can cut through the water easily. Hamish Bond and Eric Murray are currently holding the World Record, 6:08.50.
Name Jacob butel
Table tennis
Table tennis was first part of the olympics in 1988 table tennis was fought over with people against adding table tennis to the olympics and people you did want to add table tennis to the olympics. In the end table tennis was added to the olympics. The first gold medalist in table tennis was John pius Boland from Great Britain. Boland was born at 135 Capel Street, Dublin, to Patrick Boland businessman, and Mary Donnelly he had 6 siblings He was the first Olympic champion in tennis for Great Britain and Ireland at the first modern Olympics, which took place in Athens in 1896. The world record for the longest table tennis rally is 8 hours 40 minutes and 5 seconds. Some interesting facts are Table tennis was banned in the Soviet Union from ca 1930 to 1950. The sport was believed to be harmful to the eyes. Also Early table tennis paddles were normally made of cork, cardboard, or wood, and covered with cloth, leather or sandpaper. Ma Long from china won two gold medals for table tennis.
Joseph Hendry
Archery
Archery was first brought into the olympics in paris (1900 second olympics) with 6 events and 153 participants all from France, Belgium, Netherlands. Although no one from the Netherlands got a medal.
France won the first archery olympics with 3 gold, 5 silver and 4 bronze followed by Belgium with 3 gold, 2 silver and 1 bronze. There wasn’t just one first gold medalists there were three they were Émile Grumiaux Emmanuel Foulon Emmanuel Foulon Eugène Mougin Hubert Van Innis Henri Hérouin.
Kim woojin From Korea has the olympic archery with 700/720 points at 70 meters. This was at the rio olympics. This is also a world record.
Did you know:
Archery is one of the oldest sports
In the 1904 Olympics, archery was the only women's sport
In the 1900 Summer Olympics live pigeons were used as the target in archery competition
Kim woojin From Korea is one of the winning archery medalists. And the winning country is also Korea.
Rida
Volleyball
Volleyball has been in the Summer Olympics as both a men’s sport and a women’s sport since 1964. The first men’s team to get a gold medal was the Soviet Union. They also won the next Olympic gold. The first winner of the women’s was Japan. Fun Fact: The longest volleyball marathon lasted for 85 hours. This was achieved by the members of SVU Volleyball (the Netherlands) on the 27th-30th. The sides played 63 matches which included 338 sets and 14,635 points scored. This year’s winner for the men’s was Brazil with a score of 3-0 against Italy. The women’s winners were China who won 3-1 against Serbia.
Sylvana
Field hockey continued...
The longest marathon playing field hockey is 51 hours and was achieved by NC Triad Field Hockey (USA) in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA from 29 April to 1 May 2016. But the most amount of medals won in field hockey this year was 4 gold by Argentina.
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4.Since 1968, various teams from around the world have seen gold-medal success at the Olympics. Since 1968, several countries in the Southern Hemisphere have won various medals in men's and women's field hockey, including Australia, New Zealand, Argentina, and Zimbabwe. A leading group of teams from the Northern Hemisphere has come from the Netherlands and from Germany.After a first appearance at the 1908 Games in London, hockey became a firm fixture on the Olympic programme as from the Antwerp Games in 1920. Women made their entrance in this sport in 1980 at the Moscow Games. Since the 2000 Games in Sydney, men have competed in a 12-team tournament and women in a 10-team one.In its 100 years of Olympic existence, hockey has been essentially dominated by one country. The Indian men’s team, with six consecutive titles between 1928 and 1956, was unbeaten in 30 consecutive matches, and scored 197 goals, giving away only eight
Sylvana
Field hockey
1.Field hockey was played at the Summer Olympics in 1908 and 1920. It was dropped in 1924, leading to the foundation of the Fédération Internationale de Hockey sur Gazon (FIH) as an international governing body by seven continental European nations; and hockey was reinstated as an Olympic sport in 1928 and has been in the olympics till this day.
2.The first gold medalist of field hockey was a man called Louis Charles Baillon he was born on the 5th of August 1881 in Fox Bay Falkland Islands he died on the 9th of september 1965.Louis Charles Baillon is a former field hockey player, who won a gold medal with the England team at the 1908 Summer Olympics in London. He is the only Falkland Islander to become an Olympic champion.
Your Name:Ryan J
Event: Weightlifting Men's
Weight lifting was first brought to the Olympics in 1920. It came in due to people’s vote.
The first ever gold medalist was Frans De Haes from belgium in the 1920 olympics in London. He started weightlifting at the age of 17.While he was preparing for summer olympics 1924 he caught influenza and died at the age of 28.
The world record for this event is 473 kgs.
Fact: Most European countries get the most medals.
The new world record For weightlifting was set by Lasha Talakhadze of Georgia for lifting 473 kgs
Liam:
Equestrian.
Equestrianism made its Summer Olympics debut at the 1900 Summer Olympics in Paris, France. It disappeared until 1912, but has appeared at every Summer Olympic Games since. Saddley I couldn't find why it was added, but it was.
Carl Bonde on Emperor was the first gold medalist that I could find.
Alina
Swimming - Freestyle (crawl) 100m
Womens - Simone Manuel and Penny Oleksiak (tied 52.70s)