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Athletics at the Games of the IX Olympiad
Athletics at the 1928 Summer Olympics on a stamp of the Netherlands
Venue	Olympic Stadium
Dates	29 July–5 August
Competitors	706 (611 men, 95 women) from 40 nations
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At the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam, 27 athletics events were contested. The competition was held on a 400-meter track and would become the standard for athletics tracks in the future. For the first time, women's events in athletics were included in the Olympic Games program. There was a total of 706 participants from 40 countries competing.

During the 1928 Summer Olympic Games 9 new world records were set in the athletics events. New Olympic records were set in 16 of the 27 events.

Men's world records

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Event	Date	Round	Name	Nationality	Result
110 metres hurdles	July 31	Semifinal	George Weightman-Smith	South Africa	14.6
3000 metres steeplechase	August 4	Final	Toivo Loukola	Finland	9:21.8
4 × 400 metres relay	August 5	Final	George Baird Fred Alderman Emerson Spencer Ray Barbuti	United States	3:14.2
Shot put	July 29	Final	John Kuck	United States	15.87 m
Decathlon	August 5	Final	Paavo Yrjölä	Finland	8,053.290

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Women's world records

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Event	Date	Round	Name	Nationality	Result
800 metres	August 2	Final	Lina Radke	Germany	2:16.8
4 × 100 metres relay	August 5	Final	Myrtle Cook Ethel Smith Bobbie Rosenfeld Jane Bell	Canada	48.4
High jump	August 5	Final	Ethel Catherwood	Canada	1.595 m
Discus throw	July 31	Final	Halina Konopacka	Poland	39.62 m

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706 athletes from 40 nations competed. Lithuania and Romania competed in athletics for the first time. Bulgaria, Egypt, Malta, Panama, Rhodesia, and Uruguay were the only six nations not to compete in athletics.

• 1928 Summer Olympics results: athletics, from https://www.sports-reference.com/; retrieved 2010-03-01.
• Official Olympic Report

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