What is the one olympic event where the womans world record beats the mens?
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Is it not an equestrian event.\nIf i'm correct it is only that and one other event in which men and women can compete as equals
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USA Men last won a gold medal at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, Korea.  They also won it at the Olympics in LA in '84.  The USA women have not yet won a gold in indoor volleyball.
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olympics....marathon to be exact...not today's but mile running and sprinting...
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The first Women's Two "man" bobsleigh competition was held in Salt Lake City in 2002. The gold medal went to USA II, Silver to Germany I and bronze to Germany II
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Well, let's see. Since you've selected 1949 as your starting point, this would preclude the '48 London Olympic games.\n\n1952 - Josey Barthel of Luxemboug won in 3:45.1 \n\n1956 - Ron Delany of Ireland won in 3:41.2\n\n1960 - Herb Elliot of Australia won in 3:35.6\n\n1964 - Peter Snell of New Zealand won in 3:38.1\n\n1968 - Kip Keino of Kenya won in 3:34.9\n\n1972 - Pekka Vasala of Finland won in 3:36.3\n\n1976 - John Walker of New Zealand won in 3:39.17\n\n1980 - Sebastian Coe of Great Britain won in 3:38.40\n\n1984 - Sebastian Coe of Great Britain won in 3:32.52\n\n1988 - Peter Rono of Kenya  won in 3.35.96\n\n1992 - Fermin Cacho of Spain won in 3.40.12\n\n1996 - Noureddine Morceli of  Algeria won in 3.35.78\n\n2000 - Noah Ngeny of Kenya won in 3.32.07\n\n2004 - Hicham El Guerrouj of Morocco won in 3.34.18\n\nSo, what we can say is:\n\nThe times improved from 3:45.1 to 3:32.07, well off the current world record of 3:26.0\n\nOne World record was set by Herb Elliot 3:35.6\n\nThe fastest winning time was 3:32.07 by Kenya's Ngeny.\n\nMost of the races were tactical in nature, thus most of the times were well off the the WR or the athletes's PRs. (Especially in 1976, 1980 & 1992)\n\nKenya has won 3 golds, Great Britian and Australia has 2 each. \n\nEurope has produced 6 winners, Africa has 5, and Australia/NZ has 3.
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Men's gold was Canada, silver was Finland, bronze was USA, Great Britain came in 4th.  Women's gold was Sweden, silver was Switzerland and bronze was Canada.  Norway came in 4th.  Hope that helps!
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If you want an exact answer, you'll probably have to do the grunt work yourself at the official Olympic site:  http://www.olympic.org/uk/athletes/results/search_r_uk.asp\n\nA quick check in just men's athletics (track and field) show that the U.S. has done it 28 times in the sprints, hurdles, and pole vault. Eight times in the high hurdles, alone and 6 more times in the 200m.\n\nThe Soviet Union did it 3 times in the hammer, the Finns, Swedes, and Kenyans once each in the steeplechase.\n\nThere are probably a lot of other sports where one country dominates the competition, like US and East German women swimmers.
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Mark Spitz and Jenny Thompson. Spitz set the mark everyone has shot for ever since, winning seven gold medals in the 1972 Olympics, setting seven world records in the process. Thompson in the most decorated female swimmer in the world, with 12 Olympic medals in her career, including eight gold.
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Do you want men's or women's? I don't know the date, but Babe Didrikson won the women's hurdles that year:\nhttp://www.olympic.org/uk/games/past/facts_uk.asp?OLGT=1&OLGY=1932\nYou could try search for info on her. It may say the date in her bio somewhere.
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Gold medalist Roman Sebrle of the Czech Republic.\nSebrle's wining point total of 8,893 set an Olympic record but was short of his world record of 9,026. \n Bryan Clay USA finished with a lifetime best of 8,820, 160 points more than the 8,660 he scored to win the U.S. trials. \nDmitriy Karpov of Kazakhstan, , 23, won the bronze, with 8,725 points.
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The current world record in the mile is 3:43.13, set by Hicham El Guerrouj of Morocco on July 7, 1999. The current women’s record is 4:12.56 by Svetlana Masterkova of Russia, set on August 14, 1996
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Are you FREAKING serious? Women cannot compete with men on an equal physical level - PERIOD. It's time to stop with all of that equality BS. Sure, women have the RIGHT to compete, but CAN they compete on an equal level? Absolutely not. Men are stronger, faster, etc. Do you actually believe the best WNBA team could beat the worst NBA team? Hell no, it would be a slaughter. They couldn't beat a COLLEGE men's team. Even among sports like sprinting or swimming or what have you, women's records are separate because they cannot beat men's times. I mean, let's get real. And the short answer to your question, if a woman COULD play to an NFL level, she would already be in the league.
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Actually there was a woman this past week that did it twice in one game.\n\nMost women are too short to do it.
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According to the site listed as a source, (located in the 'Did you know' near the bottom of the page) Denmark's Lisa Hartle was the first female rider to win an Olympic medal in Dressage.\n\nIt also states an interesting fact: She overcame a polio affliction and managed to win the silver medal in two consecutive Olympic Games, in 1952 and in 1956. :-)
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This is a bit of a trick question, but the first women to compete were in Paris 1900 \n\nGames of the II Olympiad \n\nThe Games of 1900 were held in Paris as part of the Exposition Universelle Internationale - the Paris World’s Fair. The exposition organizers spread the events over five months and de-emphasized their Olympic status to such an extent that many athletes died without ever knowing that they had participated in the Olympics. Women made their first appearance in the modern Games. The first to compete were Mme. Brohy and Mlle. Ohnier of France in croquet. The first female champion was in tennis: Charlotte Cooper of Great Britain. Tennis was one of five sports in which athletes from different nations competed on the same team. The others were football, polo, rowing and tug of war. Alvin Kraenzlein won four athletics events in three days and, on 16 July, Ray Ewry, who had overcome childhood polio, won three championships in one day - all in the standing jump events.\n\n24 NOCs (Nations)\n\n997 athletes (22 women, 975 men)\n\n95 events
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You can find information on all the Olympic medalists here:\n\nhttp://www.olympic.org/uk/athletes/results/search_r_uk.asp
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Yes.\n\nFrom an Australian perspective, the three gold medals. The most memorable moment was the performance of Canadian weightlifter Marilou Dozois-Prevost in winning the silver medal in the women's weightlifting. She was a female weightlifter who looked like a woman. The other was the hailstorm interrupting the women's pairs in the lawn bowls between Canada and Swaziland.