List of medal sweeps in Olympic athletics
Women
With the majority of women's competitions happening in more modern, competitive times, sweeps have only occurred seven times. The Pentathlon is the only event to have more than one occurrence, coincidentally in back to back Olympiads by different countries.

List of medal sweeps in Olympic athletics

Section Title: Women
Table Section Text: With the majority of women's competitions happening in more modern, competitive times, sweeps have only occurred seven times. The Pentathlon is the only event to have more than one occurrence, coincidentally in back to back Olympiads by different countries.

Olympiad	Event	Country	Gold	Silver	Bronze

1952 Helsinki	Discus throw details	Soviet Union (URS)	Nina Romashkova 51.42 m	Elizaveta Bagryantseva 47.08 m	Nina Dumbadze 46.29 m

1976 Montreal	Pentathlon details	East Germany (GDR)	Siegrun Siegl 4745	Christine Laser 4745	Burglinde Pollak 4740

1980 Moscow	800 metres details	Soviet Union (URS)	Nadezhda Olizarenko 1:53.43 WR	Olga Mineeva 1:54.81	Tatyana Providokhina 1:55.46

Pentathlon details	Soviet Union (URS)	Nadezhda Tkachenko 5083 WR	Olga Rukavishnikova 4937	Olga Kuragina 4875

2004 Athens	Long jump details	Russia (RUS)	Tatyana Lebedeva 7.07 m	Irina Simagina 7.05 m	Tatyana Kotova 7.05 m

2008 Beijing	100 metres details	Jamaica (JAM)	Shelly-Ann Fraser 10.78	Sherone Simpson 10.90 Kerron Stewart 10.90	none awarded

2016 Rio de Janeiro	100 metre hurdles details	United States (USA)	Brianna Rollins 12.48	Nia Ali 12.59	Kristi Castlin 12.61

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