She lost her lightweight quarter-final to Sudaporn Seesondee of Thailand. There will be no medal for Caroline Dubois, though. There is a guaranteed boxing bronze for Galal Yafai later in the Games too, after he won his quarter-final in the flyweight. Pat McCormack in red with Roniel Iglesias in blue. I said it didn’t exist but this is the closest I’ve ever come.” He then criticised Nike’s super spikes as “bullshit”. ![]() “A lot of the time I am asked about the perfect race. “I can’t believe the time, it’s so fast,” Warholm said. The American Rai Benjamin took silver and the Brazilian Alison dos Santos took bronze. Karsten Warholm of Norway staged his own Superman moment in the Olympic Stadium, ripping open his shirt as he blew his own world record away in the men’s 400m hurdles final with a 45.94sec run. Bronze went to Gabby Thomas of the US, and Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce missed out completely. ![]() In a shock behind her, silver went to Namibia’s Christine Mboma, who entered this distance only because a late ruling on her naturally elevated testosterone level barred her from her favoured 400m. I really had to pull it out to win the 200m. And Thompson-Herah was so far clear at the end of the race she would have had time to slow down and wave to the crowd, had there been one.Īfterwards she said: “Oh my god, it’s amazing that I have ever seen this day. The 29-year-old Jamaican won the women’s 200m to complete an historic 100m-200m double to add to her Rio 100m-200m double – the first woman to retain the Olympic sprint double. Jamaica’s Elaine Thompson-Herah races to victory in the 200m Photograph: Tiziana Fabi/AFP/Getty Images
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