American Ryan Crouser defended his victory in the ball competition at the Tokyo Olympics.
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The ball medals were shared by the same throwers as at the last World Championships in 2019 in Doha, only in a different order. Crouser won, silver was won by his compatriot and two-time world champion Joe Kovacs and bronze by New Zealander Tomas Walsh. But while only one centimeter divided them then, this time the competition was a big solo for one man.
Crouser did not lose twenty meetings in a row, during the American qualification he broke the 41-year-old world record with a performance of 23.37 meters. He has been leading in Tokyo since the first attempt and improved his Olympic record from Rio de Janeiro three times in total. Thanks to the explosion in the last attempt, he added 85 centimeters to it
Ryan Crouser does it again!
The Rio 2016 champion defends his title as he throws 23.30 to smash his own Olympic Record.@WorldAthletics #Athletics @TeamUSA pic.twitter.com/7zIXIe9zee
— Olympics (@Olympics) August 5, 2021
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The biggest favorite on the obstacles was world champion Grant Holloway. In the American qualifier, with a time of 12.81 seconds, Aries Merritt’s nine-year-old world record defeated him by only one hundredth, and he has not lost since last August. He started the final well, but he did not succeed in the conclusion and did not win the twentieth Olympic gold in this discipline for the USA. Parchment overtook him and after the bronze from the games in London he has gold. Ronald Levy multiplied Jamaican joy by third place.
It’s gold for Hansle Parchment!
A strong finish earns #JAM more track success in the men’s 110m hurdles!@WorldAthletics #Athletics @jaolympic pic.twitter.com/47QpxIDvMu
— Olympics (@Olympics) August 5, 2021
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McLeod did not fit into the nomination because he tripped over the first hurdle at home during the qualification and the leadership of the association was not willing to make an exception even for the Olympic winner and the second man of this year’s tables. In Tokyo, however, he had great successors.
Jamaican Hansle Parchment celebrates winning the 110m hurdles race at the Tokyo Olympics.
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In the absence of the two-time Olympic champion in the triple jump of the American Christian Taylor, who broke his Achilles tendon during the Golden Scout, an attack on gold was expected from his compatriot and the eternal shadow of Will Clay. He won silver in London and Rio de Janeiro and at the last two world championships. But he also had problems with the Achilles tendon and although he improved to 16.44 meters today, he finished below the podium.
Pedro Pichardo’s 17.98 earns #BY the men’s triple jump gold.@WorldAthletics #Athletics @COPPORTUGAL pic.twitter.com/m9rXFqoi1Y
— Olympics (@Olympics) August 5, 2021
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In the third attempt, European Indoor Champion Pichardo approached two centimeters to the 18-meter limit. The silver was surprisingly won by the Chinese Zhu Ying, who improved his personal record by 17 centimeters with a performance of 17.57 m. As with the last Hugues World Championship, Fabrice Zango has bronze and it is the first ever Olympic medal for Burkina Faso in history.
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