Quincy Corridor of United States wins gold forward of Jereem Richards of Trinidad & Tobago.
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Jereem Richards sprinted to bronze within the males’s 400 meters on the Diamond League Golden Gala Pietro Mennea athletics meet on the Stadio Olimpico in Rome, Italy.
Richards, who completed fourth on the 2024 Paris Olympics a number of weeks in the past in a brand new nationwide file of 43.78 seconds, confirmed resilience in a stable end to clock 44.54 seconds to cross Botswana’s Bapyo Ndori (44.56) simply earlier than the end line.
Racing in his first 400m race for the reason that Paris Olympics, Richards was in fifth place heading into the ultimate 100m, however a late surge received him on the rostrum.
Paris Olympic bronze medallist Muzal Samukonga of Zimbabwe gained the race comfortably in 43.99, and former Olympic and World champion Grenadian star Kirani James took silver in 44.30.
Richards was fifth within the Lausanne, Switzerland Diamond League 200m on Aug. 22 in a season’s finest time of 20.10. Olympic champion Letsile Tebogo of Botswana copped gold in 19.64.
Akera Nugent set a brand new Jamaican file of 12.24 seconds in profitable the ladies’s 100m hurdles forward of the Paris Olympic champion American Masai Russell (12.31). The win is the second after she gained in Lausanne in a meet file of 12.29.
Paris Olympic males’s discus winner Roje Stona was amongst three Jamaicans who have been second of their occasions. Stona took silver within the males’s discus in Rome with 67.85.
Slovenia’s 2022 World Champion Kristjan Ceh took gold (68.61), with world record-holder Mykolas Alexna of Lithuania (67.68) taking bronze.
One other Jamaican, Romaine Beckford, narrowly missed gold within the males’s excessive leap to Woo Sanghyeok of South Korea, the 2022 World Indoor gold medallist.
Shiaan Selman took silver within the ladies’s 400 hurdles in 53.20. Olympic silver medallist Anna Cockrell of the USA gained in 52.59.
Jamaica’s former World and Olympic champion Omar Mc Leod completed third within the males’s 110m hurdles in 13.28. France’s 2021 World Below-20 victor Sasha Zhoya gained with 13.18, and Asier Martinez of Spain, 2022 World Championships bronze medallist, was third in 13.27.
