How Quickly Did They Finish Trivia Quiz

Max Langenhan of Germany won the men's luge with a time of 3:31.191 across four runs down the 1,478 meter track. Luge was unique in that all runs are shown to the thousandth of a second compared to other sports which only showed the thousandth if it was needed as a tiebreaker.

There were five events in luge including both singles and doubles for each gender as well as a mixed relay where the sledders go one after the other down the track. It took place on the same track as skeleton and bobsleigh.

In luge the sledders go down the track feet first on their back and steer by shifting their bodyweight.

Metodej Jilek of the Czech Republic won the 10,000m speed skating event with a time of 12:33.43. The 10,000m was the longest speed skating event and was only skated by the men. Jilek won the event by over 5.5 seconds which was more than the difference between second and fourth place.

The 10,000m consisted of 25 laps around the 400m oval with skaters alternating laps between the inner and outer lanes.

Emily Harrop and Thibault of France won the Ski Mountaineering Mixed Relay with a time of 26:57.44. The event saw the two skiers alternate two laps each around the 1,410 meter course. Ski mountaineering was a brand new Olympic sport in 2026. Skiers went up and down the lower slope of a mountain with additional obstacles such as stairs where they had to remove their skis prior to running up and then putting the skis back on when they are done.

Johan-Olav Botn of Norway won the 20km Individual in biathlon with a time of 51:31.5. The individual event was one where the competitors leave the start one at a time in 30 second intervals. They skied five laps around a 4km course with a shooting stage at the end of each of the first four laps, the first two in the prone position and the last two standing. Unlike most biathlon events where a missed shot resulted in either having to reload another shot or ski a penalty loop, a miss in the individual event resulted in a one minute time penalty so accurate shooting was very important as a penalty loop or reloading normally took less than half of that time.

Brian Pintado of Ecuador won the 20km walk with a time of 1:18:55. This translates to just under four minutes per kilometer. Race walking had strict rules relating to the form which the racer competed. They needed to maintain contact with the ground and keep their front leg straight so they were walking rather than running. If they violated these rules too many times they would be disqualified.

Alex Yee of Great Britain won the triathlon with a time of 1:48:33 after having won silver at the Tokyo Olympics. The Olympic triathlon started with a 1.5km swim. Athletes then changed their clothes, grabbed, a bicycle and went for a 40km bike ride.

When that was complete they finished up with a 10km run for a total of 51.5km. The event was postponed a day from its original schedule due to poor water quality earlier in the week in the Seine. Fortunately they were eventually able to eventually complete all of the triathlon and marathon swimming races with the others all happening on their originally scheduled dates.

Kristof Rasovsky of Hungary improved on his silver medal performance in Tokyo to win gold in the 10km swim with a time of 1:50:52.7. Unlike most of the swimming events which took place indoors, the marathon swimming events consisted of six laps around a course in the Seine. This introduced variables related to weather and water quality.

Tarmirat Tola of Ethiopia won the marathon with a time of 2:06:26. Tola's victory was unusual in that he was not originally selected to the Ethiopian team despite having won the world championships two years earlier. The marathon was 42.195km. This distance was first used in the 1908 Olympics in London where the finish line was setup to be in front of the Royal Box. Prior to that the exact distance varied based on how the organizers set it up.

Johannes Hosflot Klaebo of Norway won the 50km cross country skiing event with a time of 2:06:44.8. This was less than 20 seconds longer than the winning time of the marathon in the 2024 Olympics despite being almost 8km longer in distance. Apparently it was faster to ski on snow than to run on pavement.

Klaebo's performance was record setting in that it was his sixth gold medal in these Olympics, breaking Eric Heiden's record for most gold medals in a single winter games. In an earlier event he had set the record for most total gold medals in the Winter Olympics while also trailing only Michael Phelps for most gold medals among all Olympians.

Remco Evenepoel of Belgium won the men's road race in cycling with a time of 6:19:34 over a course of 273km. This happened a week after he won the individual time trial and two weeks after he finished third in his first Tour de France.
The men's road race was the longest single session event in the Olympics both in terms of time and distance, taking approximately three times as long as both the men's marathon and the 50km cross country skiing event and covering over five times the distance of both of those.