The crowd at Hayward Field cheered as the 36-year-old star took the baton from Elijah Godwin. At the beginning of her section, the seven-time Olympic champion chased the others away, but then the representative of the Dominican Republic Marileidy Paulinová, the Olympic silver medalist from last year’s smooth Thursday in Tokyo, caught up with her.
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Vernon Norwood once again developed a noticeable lead for the American relay team, but the finisher Kennedy Simonová could not resist the pressure of her Dominican rival Fiordaliza Cofilová and also succumbed to the strong finisher Femka Bolová on the chessboard. Thanks to the famous hurdler Bolová, the Netherlands was only eight hundredths away from the gold.
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With a time of 3:09.82, the victorious Dominican Republic placed second on the historical charts in this young discipline. She was 48 hundredths behind the world record of the USA selection from the 2019 World Cup. For Felix, the bronze is the nineteenth valuable metal from the World Championships, where she started for the tenth time. He has a record thirteen gold, three silver and now three bronze medals.
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