Indisputably, track and field is the cornerstone of every summer Olympics and its megastars are the pillars of Games. Truthfully, several track and field megastars - including world record holders and Olympic champions - were absent from Rio this year due injury, doping suspensions and qualification failures. Nevertheless, the sport’s biggest stars in Rio shone brightly at this the biggest stage.

USAIN BOLT
Usain St. Leo Bolt, the fastest man in the world, did not disappoint his cult-like fans and delivered another unprecedented triple gold medal performance to make it a triple-triple in three successive Olympics. Bolt won the 100m, 200m, and 4x10m relay events to cement his unsullied legacy as the greatest athlete of all time. Despite world …show more content…
ANITA WŁODARCZYK
The queen of the hammer throw, Anita Wlodarczyk, won her first Olympic gold medal in world-record fashion, to go with two World Championship gold medals in the event. Unsurprisingly, this was her sixth time breaking the world record in the women’s hammer throw. This is the second Olympic gold medal Poland has won in the women’s hammer throw event, after Kamila Skolimowska at 2000 Olympic Games.
Interestingly, Wlodarczyk was wearing Skolimowska’s glove when she won the gold medal and broke the world record in Rio.

SHAUNAE MILLER
Controversially, Shaunae Miller of the Bahamas won the women’s 400m, beating the defending world champion Allyson Felix. With a tumbling dive at the end, Miller, who left it all out on the track, lost her form and stride pattern about five metres from the finish. She fell across the finish line, just seven-hundredths of a second ahead of Felix to win barely. This was Bahamas’ second gold medal in the women’s 400m dash behind Tonique Williams-Darling enthralling run at the 2004 Olympic Games. However, Miller winning fall will be duly remembered in