If you look back 10 years, an American male has earned a medal in every running event spread over the different championships.
Can that all happen in the same meet?
If you look back 10 years, an American male has earned a medal in every running event spread over the different championships.
Can that all happen in the same meet?
No.
The US men will medal in every sprint and hurdle event. The US will take home two non-gold medals in the distance events. The US will not medal in the steeple or 10k.
NO. YOU THINK ANY OF THE 10K GUYS ARE GONNA MEDAL!? SPECTATORS THEY ALL ARE. YOU CANNOT BE SERIOUS. I DONT HAVE THE TIME TO BREAK DOWN ALL THE OTHER EVENTS THIS APPLIES TO.
I wouldn't be the least surprised if the US failed to medal in any event over 200m.
Better question is:
who will win more medals
all us sprinters/hurdlers (400 and below)
or Grant Fisher and Woody Kincaid combined?
think its a tough call there
it's an interesting question. afaik, even using the narrow definition of "every running event" to only mean flat individual track events (100/200/400/800/1500/5K/10K), this has only happened twice in Olympic history for any country, in 1900 and 1904 (which was the year the US sent 20x more athletes than any other country).
The closest it's been since then was 1912 (US in every event but the 5000m) and 1920 (Great Britain in every event but the 5000m). Which isn't really a surprise.
So needless to say this is a silly question. but it's one I was able to answer with a 10-line Python loop here:
UltraDude wrote:
I wouldn't be the least surprised if the US failed to medal in any event over 200m.
Vegas disagrees regarding the 400 and 400h.
For women it's actually happened 7 times:
1932.html {'United States', 'Canada', 'Poland'}
1936.html {'United States', 'Poland', 'Germany'}
1948.html {'Netherlands', 'Great Britain'}
1952.html {'Australia'}
1956.html {'United Team of Germany', 'Australia'}
1972.html {'East Germany'}
1976.html {'East Germany'}
But of course up until 1972 there were only two individual running events for women so it's a much lower bar. But 1972 and 1976 actually had all the running events 100m-1500m, so it was still impressive for east germany to medal in all 5 of those events back to back (from a stats point of view, suspicions aside).
US men could easily go home without a single gold medal.
110 hurdles seems the best bet, but there is competition.