Does Indoor Track Matter?
Does Indoor Track Matter?
How much does indoor track matter, really? We went through the medalists from the Olympics and the IAAF World Indoor Championships to see what the relations
How much does indoor track matter, really? We went through the medalists from the Olympics and the IAAF World Indoor Championships to see what the relationship between performances at the two events was.
Only Matt Centrowitz, Omar McLeod, Michelle Carter, the American 4x400s, and Ashton Eaton won their events at world indoors and the Olympics. And Elaine Thompson, Bri Rollins, Ruth Beitia, Ekaterini Stefanidi won gold at the Olympics after medaling at world indoors. The rest of the Olympic gold medalists didn't even medal at world indoors.
27 of the 72 world indoor medalists (in events with Olympic analogues) medaled at the Olympics; almost the same amount, 24, didn't even make the Olympic final in their events.
​Perhaps an even better indicator of indoor's relevance is how many Olympic medalists competed at world indoors. (Note: we're only counting the Olympic events that have world indoor counterparts.) 38 out of 72 Olympic medalists in those events did not even compete at world indoors. Curiously, out of the 34 Olympic medalists who did compete in Portland in March, a whopping 28 medaled! In these events, only Mutaz Essa Barshim, Jeff Henderson, Eliza McCartney, Tori Bowie, Thago Braz Da Silva, and the Jamaican's women's 4x400 medaled at the Olympics after competing at world indoors without medaling.
Check out the full breakdown below.
World Indoor Medalists At The Olympics
Olympians At World Indoors
Only Matt Centrowitz, Omar McLeod, Michelle Carter, the American 4x400s, and Ashton Eaton won their events at world indoors and the Olympics. And Elaine Thompson, Bri Rollins, Ruth Beitia, Ekaterini Stefanidi won gold at the Olympics after medaling at world indoors. The rest of the Olympic gold medalists didn't even medal at world indoors.
27 of the 72 world indoor medalists (in events with Olympic analogues) medaled at the Olympics; almost the same amount, 24, didn't even make the Olympic final in their events.
​Perhaps an even better indicator of indoor's relevance is how many Olympic medalists competed at world indoors. (Note: we're only counting the Olympic events that have world indoor counterparts.) 38 out of 72 Olympic medalists in those events did not even compete at world indoors. Curiously, out of the 34 Olympic medalists who did compete in Portland in March, a whopping 28 medaled! In these events, only Mutaz Essa Barshim, Jeff Henderson, Eliza McCartney, Tori Bowie, Thago Braz Da Silva, and the Jamaican's women's 4x400 medaled at the Olympics after competing at world indoors without medaling.
Check out the full breakdown below.
World Indoor Medalists At The Olympics
World indoor medalists | How'd they do at the Olympics? |
---|---|
Men's 60m | 100m |
Trayvon Bromell | 8 |
Asafa Powell | DNQ |
Ramon Gittens | Out in prelims |
Women's 60m | 100m |
Barbara Pierre | DNQ |
Dafne Schippers | 5 |
Elaine Thompson | 1 |
Men's 400m | 400m |
Pavel Maslak | Out in semis |
Abdelalelah Haroun | Out in semis |
Deon Lendore | Out in prelims |
Women's 400m | 400m |
Kemi Adekoya | Out in semis |
Ashley Spencer | DNQ |
Quanera Hayes | DNQ |
Men's 800m | 800m |
Boris Berian | 8th |
Antoine Gakeme | Out in prelims |
Erik Sowinski | DNQ |
Women's 800m | 800m |
Francine Niyonsaba | 2 |
Ajee' Wilson | Out in semis |
Margaret Wambui | 3 |
Men's 1500m | 1500m |
Matt Centrowitz | 1 |
Jakub Holusa | Out in semis |
Nick Willis | 3 |
Women's 1500m | 1500m |
Sifan Hassan | 5 |
Dawit Seyaum | 8 |
Gudaf Tsegay | DNQ |
Men's 60mH | 110mH |
Omar McLeod | 1 |
Pascal Martinot-Lagarde | 4 |
Dimitri Bascou | 3 |
Women's 60mH | 100mH |
Nia Ali | 2 |
Brianna Rollins | 1 |
Tiffany Porter | 7 |
Men's 4x400m | 4x400m |
USA | 1 |
Bahamas | 3 |
Trinidad and Tobago | DQ |
Women's 4x400m | 4x400m |
USA | 1 |
Poland | 7 |
Romania | Out in semis |
Men's HJ | HJ |
Gianmarco Tamberi | Injured |
Robert Grabarz | 4 |
Erik Kynard | 6 |
Women's HJ | HJ |
Vashti Cunningham | 13 |
Ruth Beitia | 1 |
Kamila Licwinko | 9 |
Men's PV | PV |
Renaud Lavillenie | 2 |
Sam Kendricks | 3 |
Piotr Lisek | 4 |
Women's PV | PV |
Jenn Suhr | 7 |
Sandi Morris | 2 |
Ekaterini Stefanidi | 1 |
Men's LJ | LJ |
Marquis Dendy | Injured |
Fabrice Lapierre | 10 |
Changzhou Huang | 11 |
Women's LJ | LJ |
Brittney Reese | 2 |
Ivan Spanovic | 3 |
Lorraine Ugen | 11 |
Men's TJ | TJ |
Dong Bin | 3 |
Max Hess | Out in prelims |
Benjamin Compaore | 10 |
Women's TJ | ​TJ |
Yulimar Rojas | 2 |
Kristin Gierisch | 11 |
Paraskevi Papachristou | 8 |
Men's SP | SP |
Tomas Walsh | 3 |
Andrei Gag | Out in prelims |
Filip Mihaljevic | Out in prelims |
Women's SP | SP |
Michelle Carter | 1 |
Anita Marton | 3 |
Valerie Adams | 2 |
Heptathlon | Decathlon |
Ashton Eaton | 1 |
Oleksiy Kasyanov | DNF |
Mathias Brugger | DNQ |
Pentathlon | Heptathlon |
Brianne Theisen-Eaton | 3 |
Anastasiya Mokhnyuk | DNQ |
Alina Fyodorova | 28 |
Olympians At World Indoors
Olympic medalists | How'd they do at world indoors? |
---|---|
Men's 100m | 60m |
Usain Bolt | DNC |
Justin Gatlin | DNC |
Andre De Grasse | DNC |
Women's 100m | 60m |
Elaine Thompson | 3 |
Tori Bowie | 6 |
Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce | DNC |
Men's 400m | 400m |
Wayde van Niekerk | DNC |
Kirani James | DNC |
LaShawn Merritt | DNC |
Women's 400m | 400m |
Shaunae Miller | DNC |
Allyson Felix | DNC |
Shericka Jackson | DNC |
Men's 800m | 800m |
David Rudisha | DNC |
Taoufik Makhloufi | DNC |
Clayton Murphy | Ran at NCAAs |
Women's 800m | 800m |
Caster Semenya | DNC |
Francine Niyonsaba | 1 |
Margaret Wambui | 3 |
Men's 1500m | 1500m |
Matt Centrowitz | 1 |
Taoufik Makhloufi | DNC |
Nick Willis | 3 |
Women's 1500m | 1500m |
Faith Kipyegon | DNC |
Genzebe Dibaba | 1 (3K) |
Jenny Simpson | DNC |
Men's 110mH | 60mH |
Omar McLeod | 1 |
Orlando Ortega | DNC |
Dimitri Bascou | 3 |
Women's 100H | 60mH |
Brianna Rollins | 2 |
Nia Ali | 1 |
Kristin Castlin | DNC |
Men's 4x400m | 4x400m |
USA | 1 |
Jamaica | 4 |
Bahamas | 2 |
Women's 4x400m | 4x400m |
USA | 1 |
Jamaica | DNF in final |
Great Britain | DNC |
Men's HJ | HJ |
Derek Drouin | DNC |
Mutaz Essa Barshim | 4 |
Bohdan Bondarenko | DNC |
Women's HJ | HJ |
Ruth Beitia | 2 |
Mirela Demireva | DNC |
Blanka Vlasic | DNC |
Men's PV | PV |
Thago Braz Da Silva | 12 |
Renaud Lavillenie | 1 |
Sam Kendricks | 2 |
Women's PV | PV |
Ekaterini Stefanidi | 3 |
Sandi Morris | 2 |
Eliza McCartney | 5 |
Men's LJ | LJ |
Jeff Henderson | 4 |
Luvo Manyonga | DNC |
Greg Rutherford | DNC |
Women's LJ | LJ |
Tianna Bartoletta | DNC |
Brittney Reese | 1 |
Ivan Spanovic | 2 |
Men's TJ | TJ |
Christian Taylor | DNC |
Will Claye | DNC |
Dong Bin | 1 |
Women's TJ | TJ |
Caterine Ibarguen | DNC |
Yulimar Rojas | 1 |
Olga Rypakova | DNC |
Men's SP | SP |
Ryan Crouser | DNC |
Joe Kovacs | DNC |
Tomas Walsh | 1 |
Women's SP | SP |
Michelle Carter | 1 |
Valerie Adams | 3 |
Anita Marton | 2 |
Decathlon | Heptathlon |
Ashton Eaton | 1 |
Kevin Mayer | DNC |
Damian Warner | DNC |
Heptathlon | Pentathlon |
Nafissatou Thiam | DNC |
Jessica Ennis-Hill | DNC |
Brianne Theisen-Eaton | 1 |
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