Athletics at the 2016 Summer Olympics
Men
* Indicates the athlete only competed in the preliminary heats and received medals.

Athletics at the 2016 Summer Olympics

Section Title: Men
Table Section Text: * Indicates the athlete only competed in the preliminary heats and received medals.

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze

100 metres details	Usain Bolt Jamaica	9.81	Justin Gatlin United States	9.89	Andre De Grasse Canada	9.91

200 metres details	Usain Bolt Jamaica	19.78	Andre De Grasse Canada	20.02	Christophe Lemaitre France	20.12

400 metres details	Wayde van Niekerk South Africa	43.03 WR	Kirani James Grenada	43.76	LaShawn Merritt United States	43.85

800 metres details	David Rudisha Kenya	1:42.15	Taoufik Makhloufi Algeria	1:42.61 NR	Clayton Murphy United States	1:42.93

1500 metres details	Matthew Centrowitz Jr. United States	3:50.00	Taoufik Makhloufi Algeria	3:50.11	Nick Willis New Zealand	3:50.24

5000 metres details	Mo Farah Great Britain	13:03.30	Paul Chelimo United States	13:03.90	Hagos Gebrhiwet Ethiopia	13:04.35

10,000 metres details	Mo Farah Great Britain	27:05.17	Paul Tanui Kenya	27:05.64	Tamirat Tola Ethiopia	27:06.26

110 metres hurdles details	Omar McLeod Jamaica	13.05	Orlando Ortega Spain	13.17	Dimitri Bascou France	13.24

400 metres hurdles details	Kerron Clement United States	47.73	Boniface Tumuti Kenya	47.78 NR	Yasmani Copello Turkey	47.92 NR

3000 metres steeplechase details	Conseslus Kipruto Kenya	8:03.28 OR	Evan Jager United States	8:04.28	Mahiedine Mekhissi-Benabbad France	8:11.52

4 × 100 metres relay details	Jamaica (JAM) Asafa Powell Yohan Blake Nickel Ashmeade Usain Bolt Jevaughn Minzie* Kemar Bailey-Cole*	37.27	Japan (JPN) Ryota Yamagata Shota Iizuka Yoshihide Kiryu Asuka Cambridge	37.60 AR	Canada (CAN) Akeem Haynes Aaron Brown Brendon Rodney Andre De Grasse Mobolade Ajomale*	37.64 NR

4 × 400 metres relay details	United States (USA) Arman Hall Tony McQuay Gil Roberts LaShawn Merritt Kyle Clemons* David Verburg*	2:57.30	Jamaica (JAM) Peter Matthews Nathon Allen Fitzroy Dunkley Javon Francis Rusheen McDonald*	2:58.16	Bahamas (BAH) Alonzo Russell Michael Mathieu Steven Gardiner Chris Brown Stephen Newbold*	2:58.49

Marathon details	Eliud Kipchoge Kenya	2:08:44	Feyisa Lilesa Ethiopia	2:09:54	Galen Rupp United States	2:10:05

20 kilometres walk details	Wang Zhen China	1:19:14	Cai Zelin China	1:19:26	Dane Bird-Smith Australia	1:19:37

50 kilometres walk details	Matej Tóth Slovakia	3:40:58	Jared Tallent Australia	3:41:16	Hirooki Arai Japan	3:41:24

High jump details	Derek Drouin Canada	2.38 m	Mutaz Essa Barshim Qatar	2.36 m	Bohdan Bondarenko Ukraine	2.33 m

Pole vault details	Thiago Braz da Silva Brazil	6.03 m OR, AR	Renaud Lavillenie France	5.98 m	Sam Kendricks United States	5.85 m

Long jump details	Jeff Henderson United States	8.38 m	Luvo Manyonga South Africa	8.37 m	Greg Rutherford Great Britain	8.29 m

Triple jump details	Christian Taylor United States	17.86 m	Will Claye United States	17.76 m	Dong Bin China	17.58 m

Shot put details	Ryan Crouser United States	22.52 m OR	Joe Kovacs United States	21.78 m	Tomas Walsh New Zealand	21.36 m

Discus throw details	Christoph Harting Germany	68.37 m	Piotr Małachowski Poland	67.55 m	Daniel Jasinski Germany	67.05 m

Hammer throw details	Dilshod Nazarov Tajikistan	78.68 m	Ivan Tsikhan Belarus	77.79 m	Wojciech Nowicki Poland	77.73 m

Javelin throw details	Thomas Röhler Germany	90.30 m	Julius Yego Kenya	88.24 m	Keshorn Walcott Trinidad and Tobago	85.38 m

Decathlon details	Ashton Eaton United States	8893 pts OR	Kévin Mayer France	8834 pts NR	Damian Warner Canada	8666 pts

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South Africa's Wayde van Niekerk won the men's 400 metres world record with a time of 43.03 seconds.

final_sentence: South Africa's Wayde van Niekerk won the men's 400 metres world record with a time of 43.03 seconds.