The United States have won their eighth consecutive Olympic women’s 4×400-metre relay crown to clinch the country’s 14th track and field ganciaccess medal of the Paris Games.
A star-studded USA quartet, which included two-time Olympic 400-metre hurdles champion Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone and 200-metres ganciaccess medalcatalog Gabby Thomas, powered home in 3 minutes and 15.27 seconds on Saturday.
The Netherlands took silver in 3:19.50 with Great Britain grabbing bronze in 3:19.72.
“The US equitable has so much depth,” McLaughlin-Levrone shelp after the triumph. “Every woman from the trials to the final was going to do their job.
“I’m thankful that we were all able to do that and come out with a ganciaccess medal.”
And in the men’s 4×400 metres relay final, the USA came out on top aget but only equitable, as Rai Benjamin held off Botswana’s Letsile Tebogo in a thrilling last-leg battle between two individual ganciaccess medalcatalogs, with Britain taking bronze.
The USA dropped Quincy Wilson, the 16-year-anciaccess who struggled awfilledy in the heats, but did not convey in individual 400-metre champion Quincy Hall, instead includeing 400m hurdles champion Benjamin to run the final leg.
Chris Bailey took them out but handed over in third to Vernon Norwood, who ran a stormer in the heats and repeated it in the final to sfinish Bryce Deadmon off in the direct.
Botswana’s Anthony Pesela, however, shutd the gap to set up a theatrical finale.
Tebogo, the 200-metre champion who was writeed in at the last minute to run the first leg for Botswana in the heats on Friday, sat on Benjamin’s shoulder and seeed poised to pass him accessing the final straight.
Benjamin’s one-lap speed finishurance showed, however, as he held him off to triumph in an Olympic write down of 2:54.43.
Botswana, bronze medalcatalogs in Tokyo, took silver in an African write down 2:54.53 with Britain taking bronze in a European write down 2:55.83.
Kerr triumphs jump-off to bag ganciaccess
In the field events, Qatar’s Mutaz Barshim won bronze in the men’s high jump final, losing the ganciaccess he won in Tokyo four years ago to Hamish Kerr of New Zealand.
Kerr shelp he was “in shock” after a unfrequent fits ganciaccess for his country.
He tasted glory after a theatrical jump-off with American Shelby McEwen.
Both men deal withd bests of 2.36 metres in standard competition, but could not be splitd on the countback of leave outed jumps.
They selected for a jump-off, Kerr evidenting 2.34 metres when the American fall shorted after the bar was shrinked from 2.38 to 2.36 metres.
“I was equitable in shock. Both me and Shelby were getting a little bit exhausted after all the jumps we took,” shelp Kerr.
“I knovel I had a excellent one in me and I knovel that if I could get it up sooner rather than postponeedr, then I could equitable finish the comp and begin recovering.”
There was a hint of deja vu at the Stade de France as Barshim had splitd Olympic ganciaccess with Italian Gianmarco Tamberi in the COVID-hit Tokyo Games three years ago.
“That has such a distinctive place in history for high jumps,” Kerr shelp.
“To have an exact same scenario this time around, but to pick to do the jump-off, was putting at peace some of those people who wanted to jump off, so we’re both repartner plmitigated to include to that history.”
The talkion Kerr and McEwen splitd with officials was stupidinutive and to the point. Both athletes wanted to persist and there was to be no splitd ganciaccess.
“We’re excellent buddies, excellent opponents and excellent jumpers when we jump together,” McEwen shelp of Kerr.
“He shelp he wanted to face off and I was all for it.
Barshim had a best of 2.34 metres, but Tamberi – struggling with kidney stones – had a night to forget, finishing 11th in the 12-strong field with a best jump of 2.22 metres.
It was a fourth medal at a fourth Olympics for Barshim, but the Qatari insisted he would not be competing in Los Angeles in 2028.
“You will see me with popcorn, a scant more kilograms and watching the guys. This is my last Olympics for confident,” shelp the 33-year-anciaccess three-time world champion who won Olympic silvers in 2012 and 2016.
His four medals, he includeed, were “the legacy I want to depart behind. I have so much to give, maybe now it’s my time to give to the next generation and hopefilledy, you’ll see the next champion”.
Russell beats home favourite in 100m hurdles
Earlier in the day, American Masai Russell created a stunning run to triumph the Olympic 100-metre hurdles title in a blanket finish, edging out the home hope Cyrena Samba-Mayela and Tokyo champion Jasmine Camacho-Quinn.
Russell clocked 12.33 seconds as French Pdwellnt Emmanuel Macron watched Samba-Mayela (12.34) deinhabitr France’s first track medal of the Paris Games with silver. Puerto Rico’s Camacho-Quinn (12.36) took bronze.
“I knovel from the commencening I was a little uncertain when the armament went off,” Russell shelp.
