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Valarie Allman won Team USA's first gold medal in Tokyo with a breakthrough performance in the women's discus. The national champion won the event with a throw of 68.98 meters, beating silver medalist Kristin Pudenz of Germany and bronze medalist Yaimé Pérez of Cuba. Pérez won gold at the 2019 IAAF World Championships in Doha, Qatar while Allman finished seventh at the championship two years ago.

De Grasse already has three Olympic medals and four world championship medals to his name heading into Tokyo. He made history at the 2016 Rio Games, becoming the first Canadian athlete to win Olympic medals in all three sprint events. He took home bronze in the 100m with a personal best of 9.91 seconds, finishing just behind American Gatlin and Bolt. De Grasse followed his 100m performance with a silver medal in the 200m and closed his Olympic debut by anchoring the Canadian 4x100m relay team to a bronze medal. De Grasse will look to add an Olympic gold medal to his collection this year.

The United States is still on the hunt for its first gold medal in track and field, but Keni Harrison added another silver in a furious finish in the women's 100m hurdles. Jasmine Camacho-Quinn won the gold and made history for Puerto Rico. In one of the tightest finishes of the Games, Italy secured another Olympic gold medal in the men's 4x100-meter relay.

The race came down to the anchor leg with Filippo Tortu passing race-leader Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake of Great Britain just before the finish line. The Italian team, which also included Lorenzo Patta, Olympic 100-meter champion Lamont Marcell Jacobs, and Eseosa Fostine Desalu, finished in 37.50 to win gold and set a new national record. Cockrell, a 12-time All-American, represented USA at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and reached the finals of the women's 400m hurdles. Olympic Trials by breaking her own school record with a time of 53.70 to advance to the Tokyo Games. Reaching the Olympic finals capped an amazing season in which Cockrell won the NCAA 100m hurdles and 400m hurdles titles to help lead USC to its second team title in the last three seasons.

She also became just the second woman athlete to ever win the 100m hurdles and 400m hurdles titles in the same season . Cockrell originally set the school 400m hurdles record with a time of 54.68 in the NCAA finals. Looking ahead, track and field medals will be handed out Sunday in the women's shot put, men's high jump, women's triple jump and men's 100 meters. Allyson Felix was added to the women's 200m field on Wednesday and finished last in that race in 22.6 seconds after earning bronze in the Olympic 400m earlier this month and later becoming the most decorated U.S. Mujinga Kambundji of Switzerland won the 200 in 22.06, while Olympic bronze medalist Gabrielle Thomas was second (22.11) and Great Britain's Dina Asher-Smith, the 2019 World champion, third (22.19).

Elaine Thompson-Herah of Jamaica bested the field, running a 10.61—a new Olympic record and fastest time this year—to win gold in Tokyo and claim the title of fastest woman in the world. Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce and Shericka Jackson finished second (10.74) and third (10.76), respectively, completing the Jamaican sweep of the podium. On her 22nd birthday and three days after winning gold in the 400 meter hurdles, Sydney McLaughlin took the first leg and had the fastest time out of the blocks. Allyson Felix, 35, followed her bronze medal in the 400 meters with a 49.38-second second lap to maintain the lead. Several athletes are worth watching over the course of the track and field schedule — especially Allyson Felix.

A third medal would tie her as the most decorated track and field athlete of all time. Two-time Olympic medalist Brittney Reese is heading back to the Games for a fourth time after finishing first in the long jump event at the trials. Reese, a seven-time world champion, won gold in the 2012 Games and silver in the 2016 Games.

Bromell currently holds the world-leading mark for the 100m in 2021, running a 9.77-second time 15 days before making the U.S. team at the Olympic track and field trials. The 26-year-old has run step-for-step with some of the best in the world, including Bolt before a left heel injury sidelined him ahead of the 2016 Rio Games. After two surgeries, hours upon hours of rehab and persevering through some of the darkest times in his life, Brommell enters the Tokyo Games as a favorite to medal in the event that was dominated by Bolt for nearly a decade. The evening session, which begins at the Olympic Stadium at 7pm, starts with the men's high jump final. The women's 100m hurdles semis follow, before the women's triple jump final and the men's 800m and men's 400m hurdles semis.

Day 3 of athletics concludes with the big one – the men's 100m final. Richardson's moment comes after she captivated the hearts of many Americans with a time of 10.86 in June, winning the women's 100m race at the U.S. Olympic track and field trials on the very same track in Eugene, Oregon. However, she lost her spot on Team USA after she tested positive for THC, a chemical in marijuana, following the trials. Felix then had a chance to qualify in the 200m, the individual event she has a gold medal in, but finished fifth despite posting a season-best time of 22.11 seconds.

Gabby Thomas claimed the U.S. 200m title in a world-best 21.61, which is also a trials record and the third-fastest time ever. Jamaica swept the women's 100m, with defending championElaine Thompson-Herahsetting an Olympic record to defend her title and denyShelly-Ann Fraser-Prycea third gold medal in the event.Shericka Jacksontook bronze. The bronze medalist, Shericka Jackson, also gave an impressive performance with an intriguing road to victory. She is one of the few women who have run below 50 seconds in the 400 meters, sub 22 in the 200, and below 11 seconds in the 100m.

Her specialty is in the 400m, where she won bronze medals at the 2016 Olympics, 2015 World Championships and 2019 World Championships in this event. For the 2021 season, she switched her focus to the 100m and 200m. Finishing with a new personal best of 10.76s, it seems this switch was a great choice. Apart from the race walks and marathon, nine track and field events will hold finals in the morning session to ensure that they receive maximum visibility for the sport across all time zones. On 16 October 2019, the IOC announced that there were plans to re-locate the marathon and racewalking events to Sapporo due to heat concerns. The plans were made official on 1 November 2019 after Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike accepted the IOC's decision, despite her belief that the events should have remained in Tokyo.

An Olympic champion and world record-holder in the 400 meter hurdles. The most decorated American track and field athlete of all time. Jamaica's Elaine Thompson Herah captured her second straight gold medal in the women's 100 meters at the Tokyo Olympics on Saturday with a winning time of 10.61 seconds, an Olympic record, at Japan National Stadium.

Venezuela's Yulimar Rojas has been equally dominant in the women's triple jump since she won the silver medal in Rio de Janeiro five years ago. Mouthwatering finals are on the menu with the men's 100m, women's shot put and triple jump, and men's high jump taking place. Here's everything you need to know about the third day of the Olympic athletics competition at Tokyo 2020 on 1 August 2021.

Kenny Bednarek came in second (19.78 seconds) and 17-year-old sensation Erriyon Knighton finished third (19.84). During the semifinals, Knighton beat Lyles and broke Usain Bolt's under-20 world record (19.93 seconds) with a 19.88 time. The high schooler is the fourth-youngest American man to make an Olympic track and field team. Allyson Felix is set for a fifth Olympic appearance after finishing second in the women's 400m final with a season-best time of 50.02 seconds. A late push from Felix, who won silver in the same event in the 2016 Rio Games, helped her avoid falling out of the qualifying ranks, with only 0.08 seconds separating second place from fourth.

Team USA's track and field roster for the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games is mostly set after the U.S. Olympic Track and Field Trials came to a conclusion after 1 a.m. The trials were originally scheduled to wrap up Sunday evening, but the final day's action was suspended for five hours due to extreme heat in Eugene, Ore. In the first event of track and field at the Tokyo Olympics, Hillary Bor surprisingly did not advance to the final in the men's 3000m steeplechase after having finished seventh overall at the 2016 Rio Games.

He was in the third heat, where the runners ran at a much slower pace than their counterparts in the first two heats. American record-holder Valarie Allman tossed a Trials-record 70.01m (229-8) during Friday's qualifying, taking down Seilala Sua's 65.90m (216-2) from the 2000 Trials. Allman set the U.S. record last August with a 70.15m (230-2) mark putting her among the top 25 women's discus throwers of all time.

Even before the semifinals of the women's 100 meters got started, a top medal contender was out of the field, when Nigerian runner Blessing Okagbare was suspended for doping just hours before she was set to run. Okagbare, a 2013 world championships bronze medalist in the 200 meters, tested positive for human growth hormone from a test taken on July 19. The Athletics Integrity Unit told Okagbare of her suspension on Saturday morning.

Lamont Marcell Jacobs of Italy stunned the running world when he won the first gold medal of his career, running a time of 9.80, a personal best. Jacobs also becomes the first Italian to win gold at the Olympics in the 100 meters. The third-place finish in her fifth Olympic Games is Felix's 10th Olympic medal and makes her the most decorated female Olympian in track and field. With bronze in Tokyo, she passed Merlene Ottey and tied Carl Lewis, who has 10, as the most decorated American athlete in track and field.

Felix could earn another medal on Saturday as a member of Team USA's 4x400-meter relay team. List of GB track and field athletes Compete in Tokyo Olympics 2021After battling with a serious Achilles injury, World heptathlon champion Katarina Johnson-Thompson is once again ready to join the squad for the Tokyo games. British Championship Silver medallist David King , Emily Borthwick , and British 1500m Champion Revee Walcott-Nolan have also joined the team just three days ahead after the announcement of the squad.

The women's discus will have the USA's Valarie Allman as the -165 chalk for gold, as one of only two women in the field with a personal best of over 70 meters. The Stanford grad was the 2018 NCAA Champion, but finished seventh at the last major meet, the 2019 World Championships in Qatar. Although Fraser-Pryce was not able to defend her 100 meter Olympic champion titles from Rio, London, and Beijing, she finished second with a time of 10.74s.

Thirteen years after her Olympic debut, she has been able to avoid injury that has prevented her from competing and maintain her elite performance. Moreover, in the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, she competes as a mother, having given birth to her son in 2017. At 34, several years after most have retired, this is a truly remarkable feat. On Saturday, the 29-year-old Jamaican track and field sprinter won the women's 100m event at the Tokyo Summer Olympics, besting the Olympic record that was previously held by Florence Griffith Joyner. The men's discus final will feature 12 athletes, including the USA's Sam Mattis who is a longshot at +8000 to win gold.

Daniel Stahl of Sweden is the -285 favorite at DraftKings Sportsbook, and he the only man in the field to have gone over 71 meters with his best throw. U.S. champion Clayton Murphy's experience at the Games helped him maneuver his way into the finals of the men's 800 meters from the second heat. Five years after just missing the podium in Rio, Soufiane El Bakkali finally earned his Olympic medal with a winning performance in Tokyo. Kyron McMaster of the British Virgin Islands finished fourth in 47.08, a national record. Yasmani Copello of Turkey and Rasmus Magi of Estonia also broke national records for their countries by finishing sixth and seventh, respectively. According to World Athletics, the top eight performances make the Tokyo men's 400-meter hurdles final the deepest race in history.

Mu, a Texas A&M student who turned pro after winning two NCAA titles and shattering the 800-meter collegiate record earlier this year, left nothing to chance in her quest to win on the world stage. She floated to the front, bringing the field through the first 200 meters in 27.4 and 57.9 seconds for the opening 400 meters. While Natoya Goule of Jamaica and Habitam Alemu of Ethiopia attempted to catch her on the backstretch, Mu remained in control of the race and extended her lead on the final turn, reaching the finish line with room to spare. Gail Devers is the last American to win the women's 100 meters at the 1996 Games in Atlanta. Marion Jones' gold medal from the 2000 Olympics was later stripped by the IOC for the use of performance-enhancing drugs.

And no other sport offers more opportunities for individual medalists than track and field. It features 48 medal events — 11 more than second-place swimming — and 189 medals over the final 10 days of competition in Tokyo. Lamont Marcell Jacobs became the first man other than Usain Bolt to win the men's 100-meter dash at the Summer Olympics since 2004. He turned in the best race of his career to win Italy's first-ever gold medal in the event. In the final event of the U.S. trials, reigning world champion Noah Lyles punched his ticket to his first Olympics by winning the 200m race with a time of 19.74 seconds, the best in the world this year. Vashti Cunningham cleared 6 feet, 5 inches in the high jump to win the event at the trials.

Cunningham, the daughter of ex-NFL quarterback Randall Cunningham, finished 13th in the 2016 Games and won bronze in the 2019 world championships. He returned to the pool for the 50m freestyle semifinals, where he posted the fastest time. A short time later, he was back for the 4x100m mixed medley relay, where he didn't have much of a shot to do anything after inheriting a huge deficit while Great Britain set a world record. Her teammates, Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce and Shericka Jackson, took silver and bronze, respectively, to secure a Jamaican sweep. This is the second time the Jamaican women have swept this event. In Beijing 2008, Jamaica dominated the women's 100m at the Olympic Games securing gold, silver, and bronze.

Second only to Florence Griffith-Joyner's 10.49 seconds from 1988. This blazing run also now gives Thompson-Herah the title of fastest woman alive. As she moved into her build up phase, she continued to gain speed, while keeping impeccable form. Hitting her top speed at about 70 meters into the race, she outpaced the 6x Olympic Medalist Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce in the last few meters to win the gold medal.

Fellow Jamaican sprinter Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce won the silver medal with a time of 10.74 seconds, while Shericka Jackson, also from Jamaica, finished the event in 10.76 seconds for bronze. "I know I have good speed endurance but my main objective is to have a good start. If I have a good start, that would be the difference between me winning a gold medal or a bronze medal," De Grasse said. He is the second track & field Aggie to medal at the Tokyo Olympics, Bryce Deadmon earned bronze as a member of the mixed 4x400m relay. Finally history will be made with the first-ever mixed gender event for medals in Athletics, the 4x400 mixed relay. The USA has been let back in the final after an atrocious officiating decision disqualified the team during the preliminaries, and they'll be a massive favorite to take home gold if they merely pass the baton without issues.

8 at Tokyo's Olympic Stadium, while Sapporo Odori Park will host the race walks and marathon. The field events were won by recent Olympic champions Ryan Crouser , Katie Nageotte and Pedro Pichardo , plus reigning European indoor champion Iryna Gerashchenko . Elaine Thompson-Herah won in 10.54 seconds, the second-fastest time in history and 0.05 off Florence Griffith-Joyner's world record that has stood for over 33 years. The two-time reigning Olympic champion at both the 100m and 200m was followed by 2008 and 2012 Olympic gold medalist and Tokyo silver medalist Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce in 10.73 and Shericka Jackson in 10.76. The third heat was the fastest, knocking Bromell out of contention to make the finals on time alone. That left his U.S. teammates Fred Kerley and Ronnie Baker to compete for a medal without him.

Harrison's path to this Olympics started soon after missing the Rio Games in 2016. Team USA swept this event in Rio in 2016, but Harrison, 28, wasn't a member of the squad after finishing sixth in the U.S. Harrison made her presence known on the world stage in a different way soon after when broke the world record with a 12.20 at the London Müller Anniversary Games in 2016. She followed that up with a silver medal at the 2019 IAAF World Championships, and her win at the 2021 U.S.

For the second time of the Tokyo Games and the fourth time in five years, Elaine Thompson-Herah snagged Olympic gold. In the women's 200-meter final, the Jamaican sprint star broke the national record by winning in 21.53. To qualify for the women's 400-meter final in her fifth Olympic Games, Allyson Felix broke another record. In the third and final semifinal heat, the six-time Olympic gold medalist finished second in 49.89, setting a new world W35 best, according to World Athletics.