PARIS, CMC – Jasmine Camacho-Quinn of Puerto Rico was the lone Caribbean medalist on Saturday’s penultimate day of motion on the Paris Olympics. The defending champion Camacho-Quinn grabbed bronze within the girls’s 100-metre hurdles in a extremely shut end on the Stade de France.
The 27-year-old clocked 12.36 seconds to complete simply behind second-placed Cyrena Samba-Mayela of France in 12.34 and winner Masai Russell of the USA (12.33 seconds).
Devynne Charlton of the Bahamas was sixth in 12.56 seconds, and Jamaica’s Ackera Nugent didn’t end.
Within the males’s excessive remaining, Jamaica’s Romaine Beckford positioned tenth after clearing 2.22 meters.
Hamish Kerr of New Zealand leaped 2.36 meters to say gold, USA’s Shelby McEwen was second after clearing the identical top, whereas Essa Barshim of Qatar copped bronze together with his effort measured at 2.34 meters.
In a disappointing efficiency, Jamaica’s girls’s 4×400 meters relay workforce didn’t end within the remaining.
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