Aug 03, 2012 01:12 AM EDT
Olympics 2012 Track and Field Schedule: Find Out Times and Events in Day 1 of Action

The track and field events are right around the corner, actually, in a few hours they will official take off in the 2012 London Olympics.The action kicks off with the Women's Heptathlon 100m Hurdles at 5:05 a.m. ET/ 10:05 a.m. GMT.

The runners with the fastests times in this race will be in Heat 5. Jessica Zelinka of Canada owns the quickest time in the personal best and season best with a time of 12.68. 

The next event will be the Women's 100m Preliminaries. The races will take of at 5:40 a.m. ET/10:40 a.m. GMT. 

Wisil Toea of New Guinea posted a 11.49 this season, for the lowest time amongst the rest of the competitors in the event. 

Following the Women's 100m, the Men's 400m Hurdles are scheduled to take place. That event is set to start at 6:15 a.m. ET/11:15 a.m. GMT.

For this event, instead of mentioning who finished at the top a number and name immediately jumps out amongst the name of Olympic gold medalist hopefuls. Lankantien Lamboni of  togo posted a 53.99 as his season and personal best. Don't mean to pick on the guy, but everybody is around the upper 40's and this guy is way beyond the average. 

The Women's 400m will follow up at 7 a.m. ET/12 p.m. GMT and then the Men's 3000m Steeplechase will go on at 8 a.m. ET/1 p.m. GMT.

Track action picks up again in the afternoon as Round 1 of the Women's 100m will take place at 2 p.m. ET/7 p.m. GMT.

At 3:05 p.m. ET/8:05 p.m. GMT, the Men's 1500m will have it's first round of action, followed by the Women's Heptathlon at 3:45 p.m. ET/8:45 GMT.

The last event taking place will award the winner with gold Women's 10,000m Final will be taking place at 4:25 p.m. ET/9:25 p.m. GMT.

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