Aug 6, 2021
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ESPN News Services
The U.S. females’s 4×100-meter crew’s push for a third consecutive Olympic gold became thwarted by Jamaica, Italy became a shock winner in the males’s 4×100, and Sifan Hassan’s skedaddle for three gold medals withered in her fifth of six races at the Tokyo Games.
Jamaica won in a national-file 41.02 seconds, at the side of the relay title to its Tokyo Olympic series after sweeping the rostrum in the 100-meter wonderful. It became the 2d-quickest time in historical previous.
The American crew of Javianne Oliver, Teahna Daniels, Jenna Prandini and Gabrielle Thomas won silver in 41.45. Britain took bronze in 41.88.
Elaine Thompson-Herah won the 100 meters Saturday in an Olympic file. Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce became 2d, and Shericka Jackson became third in that bustle. These three joined Briana Williams as the Jamaicans added the Olympic relay title to their world championship gold in 2019.
“We obtained the national file, Elaine obtained her third gold medal, we’re all going dwelling with a gold medal, so we’re upright very grateful for the wretchedness,” Fraser-Pryce said.
Italy won the males’s 4×100-meter bustle in 37.50 seconds, narrowly eclipsing Britain (37.51) for silver. Canada (37.70), that contains 200-meter champion Andre De Grasse, took bronze. The purchase presents 100-meter champion Marcell Jacobs two golds at these Games and became Italy’s first Olympic medal in the relay since a bronze at the 1948 London Olympics.
Running the anchor leg, Filippo Tortu went toe-to-toe with Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake of Britain down the dwelling straight and came out on high.
“We’re four Ferraris,” Tortu said.
The U.S. males overlooked the 4×100 relay after a base exchange doomed them to a sixth-pickle originate in their qualifying warmth.
Hassan clung on for bronze in 3: 55.86 in the 1,500 after she started fading on the encourage straight. Faith Kipyegon of Kenya retained her Olympic title in a Games-file time of 3: 53.11. Laura Muir of Britain took the silver in 3: 54.50.
Hassan already has a gold in the 5,000 meters and ought to composed composed entire a uncommon blueprint if she wins a third medal in the 10,000-meter wonderful Saturday. She made it particular her aim for the 10,000 is no longer gold; it’s upright a medal.
“I deem the body is extremely drained,” Hassan said, at the side of, “I [just] need this,” keeping up her bronze meda, “no longer gold.”
Hassan took all people all of sudden by running at the entrance nearly from the originate in the 1,500 when her old tactics in Tokyo had been to construct at or advance the encourage of the sphere for so much of of the bustle and burst dwelling on the relaxation lap. She had won all four of her races in Tokyo sooner than the 1,500 using those tactics.
Joshua Cheptegei of Uganda won the gold medal in the males’s 5,000 meters a week after incomes silver in the 10,000.
Cheptegei, who holds the world file in the tournament, became in the lead pack for so much of of the bustle and won in 12: 58.15. Mohammed Ahmed of Canada surged into 2d pickle to win the silver medal in 12: 58.61, and Paul Chelimo of the US picked up bronze in 12: 59.05.
Chelimo became a silver medalist in the 5,000 at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics. He dove in every single place in the line to edge Nicholas Kipkorir Kimeli of Kenya.
Liu Shiying of China won the gold medal in the females’s javelin, main the entire formula after throwing 66.34 meters in the first spherical.
Liu handed on her sixth and wonderful strive after being assured of the gold. She as an alternative raced to the stands in the encourage of the competition space and grabbed a Chinese flag to originate the celebrations.
Maria Andrejczyk of Poland won silver with a throw of 64.61 meters. That became 5 centimeters better than world champion Kelsey-Lee Barber of Australia.
The Connected Press contributed to this file.
