The Dutch mixed relay team wins gold in the 4x400 m thanks to shot putter Femke Bol, while Norway's Markus Roth surprises in the decathlon: the international athletics facts from Saturday.
03.08.2024, 22:55
03.08.2024, 23:36
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Bol, the protégé of Swiss coach Laurent Meuwly, secured gold for his team in the final sprint in 3:07.43 minutes ahead of the USA (3:07.74) and Great Britain (3:08.01). The Dutch team missed the world record, which the American team had set in the preliminary heat, by two hundredths.
Norwegian Rooth amazes in the decathlon
The Norwegian Markus Rooth surprisingly won Olympic gold in the decathlon on Saturday. The 22-year-old achieved a total of 8796 points, which was a national record. He came out on top ahead of the German Leo Neugebauer (8748) and Lindon Victor from Grenada (8711). The Canadian Damian Warner, Olympic champion three years ago in Tokyo, was out of the race after clearing the pole vault. Switzerland's Simon Ehammer decided not to take part in order to concentrate fully on the long jump competition. His Swiss record in the decathlon is 8468 points.
Crouser's triple
In the men's shot put, the US American Ryan Crouser (USA) once again came out on top with 22.90 m ahead of his compatriot Joe Kovacs (22.15) and the Jamaican Rajindra Campbell (22.15). Crouser thus completed the triple after Rio de Janeiro and Tokyo - in each case ahead of Kovacs.
Alfred's milestone, Jamaica's fiasco
The 23-year-old world indoor champion Julien Alfred from the Caribbean island of St. Lucia won her country's first medal at the Summer Games in the women's 100m sprint, and gold at that. While Mujinga Kambundji followed in sixth place to equal her strong result from Tokyo, the Jamaicans, who were used to success, experienced a fiasco. Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, the 100m Olympic champion from 2008 and 2012, was surprisingly absent from the semi-finals.
According to media reports, she and the American Sha'Carri Richardson, who finished second, were allowed into the stadium, where the athletes warm up next to the Stade de France, late. The World Athletics Federation cited an injury as a possible reason. Fraser-Pryce's compatriot Elaine Thompson-Herah, who won gold in Rio in 2016 and 2021, was absent after tearing her Achilles tendon, and co-favorite Shericka Jackson was also unable to compete due to injury.
