PARIS, France — Group captain Yona Knight-Knowledge, sprinter Bryan Levell, and lengthy jumper Ackelia Smith superior of their respective disciplines throughout Tuesday morning’s session on the Paris 2024 Olympic Video games, held on the Stade de France and the Olympic Aquatics Centre.
Knight-Knowledge secured a spot within the semi-finals of the lads’s 3m Springboard diving competitors, ending 14th with a rating of 382.90 factors. Competing in his third Olympics for Jamaica, Knight-Knowledge’s finest dive, a Ahead 2 ½ Somersaults 2 twists in Pike place, earned him 73.10 factors. Nevertheless, his Reverse 3 ½ Somersaults within the Tuck place dive garnered his lowest marks, with 43.75 factors.
China’s Zoungyuan Wang led the 18 qualifiers with 530.65 factors. Knight-Knowledge will return for the semi-final spherical on Wednesday morning.
Within the ladies’s lengthy leap qualification on the Stade de France, Ackelia Smith achieved a leap of 6.59m, securing fifth place in Group B. Italy’s Larissa Iapichino led the group with 6.87m, adopted by Germany’s Malaika Mihambo with 6.86m. Each surpassed the automated qualifying customary of 6.75m.
Retirement
In Group A, Chanice Porter, one other Jamaican consultant, completed eighth with 6.48m and subsequently introduced her retirement. Different athletes assembly the qualifying mark included American Tara Davis-Woodhall (6.90m) and Nigeria’s Ese Brume (6.76m).
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Bryan Levell made it by way of to the subsequent spherical as one of many quickest losers within the males’s 200m Repechage Spherical, clocking 20.47 seconds to complete second behind Canada’s Brendon Rodney (20.42 seconds). Nevertheless, Andrew Hudson, regardless of operating in the identical spherical, missed out as he positioned second in his warmth with a time of 20.55 seconds, edged out by Sweden’s Erik Erlandsson who set a private better of 20.49 seconds.
In the meantime, Adelle Tracey, regardless of operating a season better of 4:09.33 minutes within the ladies’s 1500m heats, completed thirteenth and didn’t obtain computerized qualification. She is going to compete within the Repechage Spherical on Wednesday morning for a last likelihood to advance to the semi-finals.
