PARIS, CMC – Grenada’s Anderson Peters and Jamaica’s Rasheed Broadbell stood out on an in any other case bleak day for Caribbean athletes on the Paris Olympics.
Peters, the 2019 and 2022 world champion, copped bronze within the males’s javelin, together with his effort measured at 88.54 meters.
He completed behind eventual winner Arshad Nadeem of Pakistan, who set a brand new Olympic file with a throw of 92.97 meters, and India’s Neeraj Chopra, who recorded a season-best throw of 89.45 to put second.
Trinidad and Tobago’s former Olympic champion, Keshorn Walcott (86.16) completed seventh.
Within the night’s last occasion, Broadbell, operating out of Lane 5, overcame a gradual begin to end third within the males’s 110-metre hurdles.
Broadbell, who at one level was languishing in fifth place, fought again over the past three hurdles to clock 13.09 seconds, the identical time as Daniel Roberts of the USA, who was awarded the silver medal.
Jamaicans Orlando Bennett (13.34) and defending Olympic champion Hansle Parchment (13.39) completed seventh and eighth, respectively.
American Grant Holloway, who positioned second within the 2020 Olympics, obtained off to a quick begin and was to not be denied this time round, incomes the gold medal with a time of 12.99 seconds.
Within the ladies’s 400-metre hurdles finals, Jamaica’s Rushell Clayton (52.68) was fifth, and her teammate Shiann Salmon was sixth in 53.29 seconds.
The occasion was received in a world file time of fifty.37 by American Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone.
Alexander Ogando of the Dominican Republic completed fifth within the males’s 200-meter last in 20,02 seconds, which Botswana’s Letsile Tebogo received in an space file 19.46 seconds.
Within the ladies’s lengthy bounce last, Jamaican Ackelia Smith was eighth with a leap of 6.66 meters.
American Tara Davis-Woodhall took residence the gold medal, leaping 7.10 meters, whereas Milaika Mihambo was second (6.98) and Jasmine Moore of the USA third (6.96).
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