Athletics
High jumper Lasitskene wins fourth global gold and first Olympic title
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Saturday, 07 August 2021 09:27
Russian beats Australian McDermott and favourite Mahuchikh during final track and field session of Tokyo Games At last, Mariya Lasitskene has an Olympic gold medal to go with her three world titles. The most dominant high jumper of recent years was forced to miss the 2016 Olympics due to Russia being banned from the Games. In Tokyo she faced the…
Rai Benjamin anchors USA to men’s 4x400m gold
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Saturday, 07 August 2021 09:52
American win at the Olympic Games is sealed by 43.40 split by 400m hurdles star on Saturday night in Tokyo The United States’ male track athletes failed to win the 100m, 200m and 400m, 110m hurdles, 400m hurdles, 4x100m and mixed 4x400m relay. However, surely they couldn’t go home from Tokyo with no titles in those events for the first…
Sifan Hassan runs into the history books with Olympic 10,000m gold
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Saturday, 07 August 2021 08:03
Dutch athlete wins her third Tokyo distance medal after dousing world record-holder Gidey’s fiery pace In what was her sixth race in Tokyo, and after 24,500m of track running, Sifan Hassan won 10,000m gold to achieve an unprecedented Olympic distance running treble. The Dutchwoman became the first athlete to win medals in the 1500m (bronze), 5000m (gold) and 10,000m (gold)…
Neeraj Chopra becomes India’s golden athlete
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Saturday, 07 August 2021 08:28
Olympic men’s javelin full of surprises as history is made, Czech Republic land two medals and pre-event favourite Vetter finishes ninth Despite the country’s huge population, India had never won an Olympic athletics gold medal but that all changed after Neeraj Chopra emerged victorious from a fascinating men’s javelin contest in Tokyo. The major shock did not surround the 23-year-old’s…
Gold for Ingebrigtsen as Kerr earns brilliant bronze for Britain
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Saturday, 07 August 2021 08:29
Norwegian out-kicks world champ Cheruiyot in an Olympic 1500m final that also sees the first GB medal in this event since 1988 One of the most mouth-watering events of these Tokyo Games did not disappoint. Jakob Ingebrigtsen followed the red-hot pace set by world champion Timothy Cheruiyot before out-kicking the Kenyan to win his first global title in an Olympic…
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