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Paris Summer Olympics, August 10, 2024, Paris, France. Athletics – women’s javelin – final. Czech representative Nikola Ogrodníková. with bronze medal AP/Matthias Schrader
Paris – Javelin thrower Nikola Ogrodníková won bronze at the Olympic Games and added a fifth medal to the collection of the Czech team in Paris. With the third attempt, she sent the javelin to a distance of 63.68 meters. She hasn’t thrown that far since 2021, but the peak of the Olympic cycle worked out great for her and she averted the threat that Czech athletics would remain at the Games without a medal for the first time since 1936. Japanese world champion Haruka Kitaguchiová, who is being trained by Czech coach David Sekerák, won the gold with a performance of 65.80 meters.
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Height lifter Jan Štefela took ninth place with a performance of 222 cm. New Zealander Hamish Kerr won the competition. He overcame 236 cm just like the American Shelby McEwen, the medals were decided only by the additional jump-off. Italian Gianmarco Tamberi, defending the gold, finished behind Štefela.
Ogrodníková narrowly missed the throw by 62 meters in the qualification. In the final, she started with a performance below 60 meters, missed the second attempt and was in danger of not making it to the eight-member narrow final. But the third throw was successful, she moved to third place and stayed there. “I don’t know what to say. It still doesn’t come to me, because I don’t know what happened there at all,” she blurted out after coming to the journalists.
On the third attempt, she shortened her run, which she had shifted backward in fear of misstep, and caught the right rhythm. “I somehow simplified it. I just looked in front of me, closed my top and just threw it,” added the Czech representative.
Only world champion Kitaguchiová and South African Jo-Ane Van Dyková, who beat Ogrodníková by 25 centimeters, threw further. Flor Denis Ruizová Hurtadová from Colombia, this year’s number one in the world rankings, and the silver medalist Maria Andrejczyková from Tokyo finished behind the Czech javelin thrower.
In her second start under the five rings, Ogrodníková continued the unique Czech javelin tradition, which was last extended before her in the women’s competition by world record holder Barbora Špotáková with two Olympic gold medals in Beijing and London and a bronze in Rio de Janeiro.
The Japanese improved this year’s maximum by more than half a meter in the final. “The beginning of the season was not good and I arrived in Paris with a lot of worries. But I didn’t feel any great pressure. I wanted to enjoy it. I felt that I was in shape today and I gave my best,” said Kitaguchiová.
Štefela already needed three attempts to reach the basic height of 217 cm, and the bar shook a lot during the third one. He succeeded five centimeters higher on the first attempt, but 227 cm was the final mark for him, even though he has already surpassed 230 centimeters twice this year.
“It didn’t work. I don’t dare to say where there were any problems. I was perfectly prepared, it just didn’t fit. I’m upset, I knew I had more to do, and it didn’t work out. I’m sorry,” Štefela told journalists.
Ital Tamberi, one of the defenders of gold, had a dark day. He was struggling with kidney colic, and three days before qualifying he was in the hospital with a fever. In the final, he crashed at the same height as Štefela and finished second to last.
The second gold medalist, Mutaz Issa Baršim from Qatar, was not completely fit either, he had problems with an injured leg in the qualification, but he won bronze with his best performance this year of 234 cm. Kerr and McEwen improved their personal bests to 236 cm, both on their first attempt, so it was the jump-off at a reduced height that decided for the New Zealander.
“We wanted to listen to those who wanted to jump until the end, not like last time when the gold was shared. But it was very difficult because we were both tired after so many jumps. I really wanted to end it and go rest,” said a victorious Kerr.
XXXIII. Summer Olympics in Paris:
Athletics:
Finals:
Men:
800 m: 1. Wanyonyi (Kenya) 1:41.19, 2. Arop (Can.) 1:41.20, 3. Sejati (Algeria) 1:41.50, 4. Hoppel (USA) 1:41.67, 5. Attaoui (Sp.) 1:42.08, 6. Tual (Fr.) 1:42.14.
5000 m: 1. J. Ingebrigtsen (Nor.) 13:13.66, 2. Kwemoi (Kenya) 13:15.04, 3. Fisher (USA) 13:15.13, 4. Lobalu (Refugee Team) 13:15, 27, 5. Gebrhiwet 13:15.32, 6. Mehary (both Et.) 13:15.99.
Marathon: 1. Tola (Et.) 2:06:26, 2. Abdi (Belgian) 2:06:47, 3. Kipruto (Keňa) 2:07:00, 4. Cairess (Brit.) 2:07:29 , 5. Geleta (Et.) 2:07:31, 6. Akasaki (Japan) 2:07:32.
4×400 m: 1. USA (Bailey, Norwood, Deadmon, Benjamin) 2:54,43, 2. Botswana (Ndori, Kebinatshipi, Pesela, Tebogo) 2:54,53, 3. Great Britain (Haydock-Wilson, Hudson-Smith, Davey, Dobson) 2:55.83, 4. Belgium 2:57.75, 5. JAR 2:58.12, 6. Japanese 2:58.33.
Height: 1. Kerr (N. Zél.) 236, 2. McEwen (USA) 236, 3. Barshim (Kat.) 234, 4. Sottile (It.) 234, 5. Akamatsu (Jap.) 231, 6. Doroshchuk ( Sec.) 231, …9. Steffel (CZ) 222.
1500 m: 1. Kipyegonová (Kenya) 3:51.29, 2. Hullová (Aust.) 3:52.56, 3. Bellová (Brit.) 3:52.61, 4. Weltejiová (Et.) 3:52.75 , 5. Muir (Britain) 3:53.37, 6. Ejore (Kenya) 3:56.07.
4×400 m: 1. USA (Little, McLaughlin-Levrone, Thomas, Holmes) 3:15.27, 2. Netherlands (Klaver, Peeters, De Witte, Bol) 3:19.50, 3. Great Britain (Ohuruogu, Nielsen, Yeargin, Anning) ) 3:19.72, 4. Ireland 3:19.90, 5. France 3:21.41, 6. Canada 3:22.01.
100 m east (wind -0.3 m/s): 1. Russell (USA) 12.33, 2. Samba-Mayela (Fr.) 12.34, 3. Camachova-Quinn (Porto.) 12.36, 4. Visser (Netherlands) 12.43, 5. Stark (USA) 12.43, 6. Charlton (Bah.) 12.56.
Spear: 1. Kitaguchiová (Japan) 65.80, 2. Van Dyková (JAR) 63.93, 3. Ogrodníková (Czech Republic) 63.68, 4. Koláková (Croatia) 63.40, 5. Ruizová (Col.) 63.00, 6. Aguilarová (Sp.) 62.78.
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