Athletics at the 2024 Summer Olympics

Athletics at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris were held between 1 and 11 August 2024, featuring a total of 48 medal events across three distinct sets: track and field, road running, and racewalking.[1] Four venues were used: Pont d'Iéna for race walking, Hôtel de Ville and Les Invalides for the start and end points of the marathon races, and Stade de France for the track and field events.

Athletics
at the Games of the XXXIII Olympiad
VenueStade de France (track and field events)
Pont d'Iéna (race walk)
Hôtel de Ville and Les Invalides (Marathon)
Dates1–11 August 2024
No. of events48 (23 men, 23 women, 2 mixed)
Competitors1,810
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The competition featured an identical number of medal events for men and women, the first instance in Olympic history. The marathon race walk mixed relay through a marathon course was contested for the first time at these Games, replacing the men's 50 kilometres race walk in the quest for gender equality.[2]

Another significant change to the athletics program was the repechage round format in all individual track events from 200 to 1500 m and the hurdles events (110 m for men, 100 m for women, and 400 m for both), a vast opportunity for the runners to have a second chance of entering the semifinal phase. This format replaced the former system of athletes advancing through the fastest overall times (q) apart from those qualifying directly in the first-round heats (Q).[3]

Venues

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Track and field events were staged at the Stade de France, with the race walks having been contested at Pont d'Iena.[1] The marathon races began at the Hôtel de Ville (city hall) and ended in Les Invalides. Along the course, runners traversed many of the city's most iconic sites and Olympic venues throughout the route.[4]

This traditional marathon course also set a particularly tough profile with an overall elevation gain or loss of 438 m. The route, specially designed for the Paris 2024 Games and approved by World Athletics, was unique, demanding, and technical. Paris 2024 unveiled the routes for the Olympic marathon and the two races – a 42.195 km course and a 10 km course – open to the general public as part of the mass event running.[5]

Schedule

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Road events (marathons and racewalks) were held in the morning session of the athletics program schedule, with all track, field, and combined events staging their finals in the evening session for the first time since London 2012.[6]

For the first time in its four-decade-long Olympic history since the 1984 Los Angeles Games, the women's marathon occurred on the last day of the athletics program on 11 August, with the men's race having taken place the day prior on 10 August. According to Tony Estanguet, a triple Olympic slalom canoeing champion and president of the Paris 2024 organising committee, "We wanted to reverse the order in an ambition to more gender equality and bring women to the fore for the first time so the women's marathon will enjoy major visibility on 11 August to cap off the athletics program."[4]

Legend
P Preliminary round Q Qualification H Heats R Repechage ½ Semi-finals F Final
Schedule[6][7]
Men's
Date 1 Aug 2 Aug 3 Aug 4 Aug 5 Aug 6 Aug 7 Aug 8 Aug 9 Aug 10 Aug
Event M E M E M E M E M E M E M E M E M E M E
100 m P H ½ F
200 m H R ½ F
400 m H R ½ F
800 m H R ½ F
1500 m H R ½ F
5000 m H F
10,000 m F
110 m hurdles H R ½ F
400 m hurdles H R ½ F
3000 m steeplechase H F
4 × 100 m relay H F
4 × 400 m relay H F
Marathon F
20 km walk F
High jump Q F
Pole vault Q F
Long jump Q F
Triple jump Q F
Shot put Q F
Discus throw Q F
Hammer throw Q F
Javelin throw Q F
Decathlon F
Women's
Date 1 Aug 2 Aug 3 Aug 4 Aug 5 Aug 6 Aug 7 Aug 8 Aug 9 Aug 10 Aug 11 Aug
Event M E M E M E M E M E M E M E M E M E M E M
100 m P H ½ F
200 m H R ½ F
400 m H R ½ F
800 m H R ½ F
1500 m H R ½ F
5000 m H F
10,000 m F
100 m hurdles H R ½ F
400 m hurdles H R ½ F
3000 m steeplechase H F
4 × 100 m relay H F
4 × 400 m relay H F
Marathon F
20 km walk F
High jump Q F
Pole vault Q F
Long jump Q F
Triple jump Q F
Shot put Q F
Discus throw Q F
Hammer throw Q F
Javelin throw Q F
Heptathlon F
Mixed
Date 2 Aug 3 Aug 7 Aug
Event M E M E M E
4 × 400 m relay H F
Mixed marathon walk relay F

Qualification

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Athletics – individual events

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At the end of the 2022 season, World Athletics established a qualification system for athletics competition at the 2024 Summer Olympics. Similar to the previous edition, the qualification system was set on a dual pathway, where the initial half of the total quota (about fifty percent) was distributed to the athletes through entry standards approved by the World Athletics council, with the remainder relying on the world ranking list within the qualifying period.[8] Each country was able to enter a maximum of three athletes for each individual event on the Paris 2024 athletics program. The qualification period for all track and field events (except the 10,000 metres, heptathlon, and decathlon) ran from 1 July 2023 to 30 June 2024.[9]

Athletics – relay teams

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Each relay event featured sixteen teams from their respective NOCs, composed of the following:[8]

  • 14: top fourteen teams based on their results achieved at the 2024 World Athletics Relays in Nassau, Bahamas[10]
  • 2: top two teams outside the key qualifier according to the World Athletics performance list for relays within the qualification period (31 December 2022 to 30 June 2024)[11]

Athletics – marathon race walking mixed teams

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The marathon race walking mixed relay event, covering a distance of marathon (42.195 km), featured twenty-five pairs from their respective NOCs, composed of the following:[8]

  • 22: top twenty-two teams based on their results achieved at the 2024 World Athletics Race Walking Team Championships[12]
  • 3: top three teams outside the key qualifier through the World Athletics Race Walk rankings based on the aggregate scores of both a male and a female athlete within the qualification period (31 December 2022 to 30 June 2024)[11]

Athletics – 10,000 metres, road, and combined events

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The qualification period for the marathon ran from 1 November 2022 to 30 April 2024. For the 10,000 metres, combined events (men's decathlon and women's heptathlon) and racewalking, the qualification period ran from 31 December 2022 to 30 June 2024.[8]

In the marathon races, any runner ranked higher than the sixty-fifth-place athlete on the filtered Quota Place "Road to Paris" list on 30 January 2024, was deemed eligible for immediate selection to his or her respective national team at the Games. Beyond the deadline, the remaining twenty percent of the total quota was determined by the same dual pathway qualification criteria outlined above without displacing any qualified athletes on the set date.[8][13]

Medal summary

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Medal table

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  *   Host nation (France)

RankNOCGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1  United States1411934
2  Kenya42511
3  Canada3115
4  Netherlands2136
5  Spain2114
6  Norway2103
7  Great Britain14510
8  Jamaica1326
9  Ethiopia1304
10  Australia1247
11  Germany1214
12  China1124
13  Belgium1113
14  Bahrain1102
  Botswana1102
  Ecuador1102
  New Zealand1102
  Saint Lucia1102
  Uganda1102
20  Ukraine1023
21  Greece1012
22  Dominica1001
  Dominican Republic1001
  Japan1001
  Morocco1001
  Pakistan1001
  Sweden1001
28  South Africa0202
29  Italy0123
30  Brazil0112
31  France*0101
  Hungary0101
  India0101
  Lithuania0101
  Portugal0101
36  Grenada0022
37  Algeria0011
  Croatia0011
  Czech Republic0011
  Poland0011
  Puerto Rico0011
  Qatar0011
  Zambia0011
Totals (43 entries)484849145

Men's events

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Event Gold Silver Bronze
100 metres
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Noah Lyles
  United States
9.79 (.784) PB Kishane Thompson
  Jamaica
9.79 (.789) Fred Kerley
  United States
9.81 SB
200 metres
details
Letsile Tebogo
  Botswana
19.46 AR Kenny Bednarek
  United States
19.62 Noah Lyles
  United States
19.70
400 metres
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Quincy Hall
  United States
43.40 PB Matthew Hudson-Smith
  Great Britain
43.44 AR Muzala Samukonga
  Zambia
43.74 NR
800 metres
details
Emmanuel Wanyonyi
  Kenya
1:41.19 PB Marco Arop
  Canada
1:41.20 AR Djamel Sedjati
  Algeria
1:41.50
1500 metres
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Cole Hocker
  United States
3:27.65 OR, AR Josh Kerr
  Great Britain
3:27.79 NR Yared Nuguse
  United States
3:27.80 PB
5000 metres
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Jakob Ingebrigtsen
  Norway
13:13.66 SB Ronald Kwemoi
  Kenya
13:15.04 Grant Fisher
  United States
13:15.13
10,000 metres
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Joshua Cheptegei
  Uganda
26:43.14 OR Berihu Aregawi
  Ethiopia
26:43.44 Grant Fisher
  United States
26:43.46 SB
110 metres hurdles
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Grant Holloway
  United States
12.99 Daniel Roberts
  United States
13.09 (.085) Rasheed Broadbell
  Jamaica
13.09 (.088) SB
400 metres hurdles
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Rai Benjamin
  United States
46.46 =SB Karsten Warholm
  Norway
47.06 Alison dos Santos
  Brazil
47.26
3000 metres steeplechase
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Soufiane El Bakkali
  Morocco
8:06.05 SB Kenneth Rooks
  United States
8:06.41 PB Abraham Kibiwot
  Kenya
8:06.47 SB
4 × 100 metres relay
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  Canada
Aaron Brown
Jerome Blake
Brendon Rodney
Andre De Grasse
37.50 SB   South Africa
Bayanda Walaza
Shaun Maswanganyi
Bradley Nkoana
Akani Simbine
37.57 AR   Great Britain
Jeremiah Azu
Louie Hinchliffe
Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake
Zharnel Hughes
Richard Kilty[b]
37.61 SB
4 × 400 metres relay
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  United States
Christopher Bailey
Vernon Norwood
Bryce Deadmon
Rai Benjamin
Quincy Wilson[b]
2:54.43 OR   Botswana
Bayapo Ndori
Busang Collen Kebinatshipi
Anthony Pesela
Letsile Tebogo
2:54.53 AR   Great Britain
Alex Haydock-Wilson
Matthew Hudson-Smith
Lewis Davey
Charlie Dobson
Samuel Reardon[b]
Toby Harries[b]
2:55.83 AR
Marathon
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Tamirat Tola
  Ethiopia
2:06:26 OR Bashir Abdi
  Belgium
2:06:47 Benson Kipruto
  Kenya
2:07:00
20 kilometres walk
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Brian Pintado
  Ecuador
1:18:55 Caio Bonfim
  Brazil
1:19:09 Álvaro Martín
  Spain
1:19:11
High jump
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Hamish Kerr
  New Zealand
2.36 m =AR Shelby McEwen
  United States
2.36 m PB Mutaz Barsham
  Qatar
2.34 m SB
Pole vault
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Armand Duplantis
  Sweden
6.25 m WR Sam Kendricks
  United States
5.95 m =SB Emmanouil Karalis
  Greece
5.90 m
Long jump
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Miltiadis Tentoglou
  Greece
8.48 m Wayne Pinnock
  Jamaica
8.36 m Mattia Furlani
  Italy
8.34 m
Triple jump
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Jordan Díaz
  Spain
17.86 m Pedro Pichardo
  Portugal
17.84 m Andy Díaz
  Italy
17.64 m SB
Shot put
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Ryan Crouser
  United States
22.90 m SB Joe Kovacs
  United States
22.15 m Rajindra Campbell
  Jamaica
22.15 m
Discus throw
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Rojé Stona
  Jamaica
70.00 m OR/PB Mykolas Alekna
  Lithuania
69.97 m Matthew Denny
  Australia
69.31 m
Hammer throw
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Ethan Katzberg
  Canada
84.12 m Bence Halász
  Hungary
79.97 m Mykhaylo Kokhan
  Ukraine
79.39 m
Javelin throw
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Arshad Nadeem
  Pakistan
92.97 m OR Neeraj Chopra
  India
89.45 m SB Anderson Peters
  Grenada
88.54 m
Decathlon
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Markus Rooth
  Norway
8796 pts NR Leo Neugebauer
  Germany
8748 pts Lindon Victor
  Grenada
8711 pts SB

Women's events

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Women's 3000 metres Steeplechase final
Event Gold Silver Bronze
100 metres
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Julien Alfred
  Saint Lucia
10.72 NR Sha'Carri Richardson
  United States
10.87 Melissa Jefferson
  United States
10.92
200 metres
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Gabrielle Thomas
  United States
21.83 Julien Alfred
  Saint Lucia
22.08 Brittany Brown
  United States
22.20
400 metres
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Marileidy Paulino
  Dominican Republic
48.17 OR, AR Salwa Eid Naser
  Bahrain
48.53 SB Natalia Kaczmarek
  Poland
48.98
800 metres
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Keely Hodgkinson
  Great Britain
1:56.72 Tsige Duguma
  Ethiopia
1:57.15 PB Mary Moraa
  Kenya
1:57.42
1500 metres
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Faith Kipyegon
  Kenya
3:51.29 OR Jessica Hull
  Australia
3:52.56 Georgia Bell
  Great Britain
3:52.61 NR
5000 metres
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Beatrice Chebet
  Kenya
14:28.56 Faith Kipyegon
  Kenya
14:29.60 SB Sifan Hassan
  Netherlands
14:30.61 SB
10,000 metres
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Beatrice Chebet
  Kenya
30:43.25 Nadia Battocletti
  Italy
30:43.35 NR Sifan Hassan
  Netherlands
30:44.12 SB
100 metres hurdles
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Masai Russell
  United States
12.33 Cyréna Samba-Mayela
  France
12.34 Jasmine Camacho-Quinn
  Puerto Rico
12.36
400 metres hurdles
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Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone
  United States
50.37 WR Anna Cockrell
  United States
51.87 PB Femke Bol
  Netherlands
52.15
3000 metres steeplechase
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Winfred Yavi
  Bahrain
8:52.76 OR Peruth Chemutai
  Uganda
8:53.34 NR Faith Cherotich
  Kenya
8:55.15 PB
4 × 100 metres relay
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  United States
Melissa Jefferson
Twanisha Terry
Gabrielle Thomas
Sha'Carri Richardson
41.78 SB   Great Britain
Dina Asher-Smith
Imani-Lara Lansiquot
Amy Hunt
Daryll Neita
Bianca Williams[b]
Desirèe Henry[b]
41.85   Germany
Alexandra Burghardt
Lisa Mayer
Gina Lückenkemper
Rebekka Haase
Sophia Junk[b]
41.97 SB
4 × 400 metres relay
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  United States
Shamier Little
Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone
Gabrielle Thomas
Alexis Holmes
Quanera Hayes[b]
Aaliyah Butler[b]
Kaylyn Brown[b]
3:15.27 AR   Netherlands
Lieke Klaver
Cathelijn Peeters
Lisanne de Witte
Femke Bol
Eveline Saalberg[b]
Myrte van der Schoot[b]
3:19.50 NR   Great Britain
Victoria Ohuruogu
Laviai Nielsen
Nicole Yeargin
Amber Anning
Yemi Mary John[b]
Hannah Kelly[b]
Jodie Williams[b]
Lina Nielsen[b]
3:19.72 NR
Marathon
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Sifan Hassan
  Netherlands
2:22:55 OR Tigst Assefa
  Ethiopia
2:22:58 Hellen Obiri
  Kenya
2:23:10 PB
20 kilometres walk
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Yang Jiayu
  China
1:25:54 María Pérez
  Spain
1:26:19 Jemima Montag
  Australia
1:26:25 AR
High jump
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Yaroslava Mahuchikh
  Ukraine
2.00 m Nicola Olyslagers
  Australia
2.00 m Eleanor Patterson
  Australia
1.95 m =SB
Iryna Herashchenko
  Ukraine
1.95 m =SB
Pole vault
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Nina Kennedy
  Australia
4.90 m SB Katie Moon
  United States
4.85 m =SB Alysha Newman
  Canada
4.85 m NR
Long jump
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Tara Davis-Woodhall
  United States
7.10 m Malaika Mihambo
  Germany
6.98 m Jasmine Moore
  United States
6.96 m
Triple jump
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Thea LaFond
  Dominica
15.02 m NR Shanieka Ricketts
  Jamaica
14.87 m SB Jasmine Moore
  United States
14.67 m SB
Shot put
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Yemisi Ogunleye
  Germany
20.00 m Maddi Wesche
  New Zealand
19.86 m PB Song Jiayuan
  China
19.32 m
Discus throw
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Valarie Allman
  United States
69.50 m Feng Bin
  China
67.51 m Sandra Elkasević
  Croatia
67.51 m SB
Hammer throw
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Camryn Rogers
  Canada
76.97 m Annette Echikunwoke
  United States
75.48 m SB Zhao Jie
  China
74.27 m
Javelin throw
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Haruka Kitaguchi
  Japan
65.80 m SB Jo-Ane van Dyk
  South Africa
63.93 m Nikola Ogrodníková
  Czech Republic
63.68 m SB
Heptathlon
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Nafissatou Thiam
  Belgium
6880 pts Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  Great Britain
6844 pts Noor Vidts
  Belgium
6707 pts

Mixed events

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Event Gold Silver Bronze
4 × 400 metres relay
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  Netherlands
Eugene Omalla
Lieke Klaver
Isaya Klein Ikkink
Femke Bol
Cathelijn Peeters[b]
3:07.43 AR   United States
Vernon Norwood
Shamier Little
Bryce Deadmon
Kaylyn Brown
3:07.74   Great Britain
Samuel Reardon
Laviai Nielsen
Alex Haydock-Wilson
Amber Anning
Nicole Yeargin[b]
3:08.01 NR
Marathon walk relay
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  Spain
Álvaro Martín
María Pérez
2:50:31   Ecuador
Brian Pintado
Glenda Morejón
2:51:22   Australia
Rhydian Cowley
Jemima Montag
2:51:38

b Athletes who participated in the heats only and received medals.

Multiple medalists

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Multiple medalists
Name       Total
Gabrielle Thomas 3 0 0 3
Rai Benjamin 2 0 0 2
Beatrice Chebet 2 0 0 2
Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone 2 0 0 2
Femke Bol 1 1 1 3
Julien Alfred 1 1 0 2
Kaylyn Brown 1 1 0 2
Bryce Deadmon 1 1 0 2
Faith Kipyegon 1 1 0 2
Lieke Klaver 1 1 0 2
Shamier Little 1 1 0 2
Vernon Norwood 1 1 0 2
Cathelijn Peeters 1 1 0 2
María Pérez 1 1 0 2
Brian Pintado 1 1 0 2
Sha'Carri Richardson 1 1 0 2
Letsile Tebogo 1 1 0 2
Sifan Hassan 1 0 2 3
Melissa Jefferson 1 0 1 2
Noah Lyles 1 0 1 2
Álvaro Martín 1 0 1 2
Matthew Hudson-Smith 0 1 1 2
Amber Anning 0 0 2 2
Grant Fisher 0 0 2 2
Alex Haydock-Wilson 0 0 2 2
Jemima Montag 0 0 2 2
Jasmine Moore 0 0 2 2
Laviai Nielsen 0 0 2 2
Samuel Reardon 0 0 2 2
Nicole Yeargin 0 0 2 2

See also

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References

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