Italian Lamont Marcell Jacobs became the surprising winner of the 100-meter Olympic race in Tokyo and improved his European record in 9.80 seconds. Just minutes before him, Gianmarco Tamberi won Italy’s first gold. He shared it with Mutaz Issa Barshim of Qatar, both of whom covered 237 centimeters.
Yulimar Rojas from Venezuela improved her 26-year-old world record in a triple jump by 17 centimeters to 15.67 meters, and as expected, the Chinese Kung Lijiao won the bowling competition.
Twenty-six-year-old Jacobs became the unexpected successor of the legendary Jamaican Usain Bolt. The sprinter’s power was not represented in the final, the 2011 world champion and Bolt’s longtime shadow Yohan Blake finished in the semifinals, as did, for example, the first man of this year’s tables, the American Trayvon Bromell.
In the semifinals, Jacobs improved by two hundredths the current European record, which was held at 9.86 by the Frenchman Jimmy Vicaut (2015) and Francis Obikwel from Portugal (2004). He lost another four hundredths in the final and became the first Italian to win the Olympic hundred. He entered the season with a personal record of 10.03.
The American Fred Kerley, who has a bronze from the Doha World Championships on Thursday, ran for the silver and only this year he started to devote himself fully to the shortest sprint. André De Grasse, a Canadian, won bronze, as did Rio de Janeiro and Doha. Already in the semifinals, the opponent was shocked by the Chinese Su Ping-tien, who after a rocket start improved his personal maximum by seven hundredths and set an Asian record of 9.83. He did not repeat it in the final and finished sixth.
The Qatari highlander Barshim also acquired the most valuable metal after bronze from London and silver from Rio. He has twice become world champion since the last games, but has also suffered serious injuries that nearly ended his career. He hasn’t gotten over 240 cm since. This year he appeared minimally at the races and lost everywhere, he had only 230 in the tables, but before the gold at the World Championships in Doha two years ago it was similar.
He timed his form great for the peak of the season again this time. He jumped everything up to 237 cm on the first try. Tamberi did just as well, losing his games at Rio at the last minute when he tore the tendons in his ankle while trying to 241 cm. At altitude 239 in Tokyo, no one succeeded. Maksim Nedosekov from Belarus took bronze just because of worse attempts, and Tamberi and Barshim agreed that they would both take gold instead of jumping.
The American JuVaughn Harrison, who set the task of gold in height and distance, got into trouble at as little as 227 cm, which he conquered only on the third attempt. He also had to repair at other heights and finished in seventh place with a performance of 233 cm. On Monday morning, fifteen hours after today’s final, he will have a second chance in the distance final.
Trojan jumper Rojas won the fourth Olympic gold in history for Venezuela and the first in athletics. The silver medalist from Rio and world champion from 2017 and 2019 confirmed the role of the queen of the discipline. With the very first attempt, she set an Olympic record of 15.41 and at that moment the first place was decided.
None of the opponents exceeded the fifteen meter mark this year. Rojas lands behind her in every race and it was only a matter of time before she perfectly hit the rebound. She succeeded in the last series, in which she erased from the tables the record of the Ukrainian Inessa Kravecová from 1995. “I have no words. I can’t describe this feeling and this moment. A gold medalist with an Olympic and world record. It’s a fantastic night. “I knew I had this distance in my legs today. I didn’t do a little technically, but I put everything into the last jump and it worked out,” she rejoiced.
For the first time in her career, Patrica Mamona from Portugal got just over fifteen meters and it earned her silver. Ana Peleteirová from Spain finished third. Thirty-seven-year-old Caterine Ibargüen from Colombia, the world number one before Rojasová, a gold advocate and two-time world champion, entered only 14.25 and did not advance to the shortlist.
The favored Chinese woman Kung Lijiao won the 20.58 meter bowling competition and completed her collection of Olympic medals. However, the gold is the first that she received directly at the stadium, she won the previous ones only after the additional disqualification of her opponents for doping. She was the only one to cross the limit of twenty meters and beat her nearest opponent by 79 centimeters.
Silver was won by American Raven Saunders with a performance of 19.79 and bronze by New Zealand veteran Valerie Adams for 19.62. The 36-year-old two-time Olympic winner and mother of two, who started in Athens in 2004, returned to the ring after maternity and injuries and decorated her fifth start at the Games with a fourth medal.
“Since the last Olympics, the two people have come out of me. I hope to continue to inspire athletes around the world. If you want a child and want to go back and be at the top of the world, that’s fine. You can certainly do that, too,” Adams said. The mother is also the Jamaican sprinter Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, who finished second at 100 meters on Saturday.
One of the favorites of the shot put, Jessica Ramsey, who crossed the 20-meter mark during the American qualification, had three invalid attempts. The Czech representative Markéta Červenková did not advance from the qualification.
The only Czech representative in the afternoon athletics Olympic program in Tokyo, Vít Müller, ran a time of 49.69 seconds in the semifinals of the 400-meter hurdles race, which was only enough for 22nd place.
Müller was a tenth slower than in the start from which he had advanced from the last place. “The second run was much harder. I mainly wanted to advance to the semifinals. I drove here with some 35th place in the ranking and 24 people are advancing. I am satisfied with the semifinals. But on the other hand I wanted to run a person, ideally under 49 seconds “It didn’t work out,” Müller said of his performance. The 24-year-old athletics runner has never experienced anything better. “It’s a lifetime achievement. It’s unbelievable to me that I got here,” he said.
XXII. Tokyo Summer Olympics:
Athletics:
Final:
Men:
100 m (wind +0.1 m / s): 1. Jacobs (It.) 9.80 – European record, 2. Kerley (USA) 9.84, 3. De Grasse (CAN) 9.89, 4. Simbine (JAR) 9.93, 5. Baker ( USA) 9.95, 6. Su Pingchien (China) 9.98, Adegoke (NGA) did not finish, Hughes (Brit.) Disqualified.
Height: 1. Barshim (Kat.) And Tamberi (It.), 3. Nědosekov (Běl.) All 237, 4. U Sang-hjok (Korea), 5. Starc (Austr.) Both 235, 6. Akimenko (Rus.). ), 7. Harrison (USA) both 233, 8. Lovett (CAN) 230.
Triple jump: 1. Rojasová (VEN) 15.67 – world record, 2. Mamonaová (Portug.) 15.01, 3. Peleteirová (Šp.) 14.87, 4. Rickettsová (Jam.) 14.84, 5. Poveaová (Cuba) 14.70, 6. Minenkova (ISR) 14.60, 7. Oriya (USA) 14.59, 8. Williams (Jam.) 14.51.
Ball: 1. Kung Lijiao (China) 20.58, 2. Saunders (USA) 19.79, 3. Adams (N. Zél.) 19.62, 4. Dongm (Portugal) 19.57, 5. Sung Jiayuan (CHN) 19.14, 6. Wesche (NZL) 18.98, 7. Roos (SWE) 18.91, 8. Gambetta (DEU) 18.88.
Start-ups and qualifications:
Men:
400 m: 1. Cherry (USA) 44,82… 40. Buttercup (CZ) 47.01 – did not advance to the semifinals.
3000 m BC: 1. Yaviová (Bahr.) 9:10,80.
Columns: 1. Španovičová (Serbian) 700.
Hammer: 1. Wlodarczyková (Pol.) 76,99.
Semifinal:
Men:
100 m (wind +0.9 m / s): 1. Su Ping-tien (China) 9.83, 2. Baker (USA) 9.83, 3. Jacobs (It.) 9.84 – European record.
800 m: 1. Rotich (Kenya) 1: 44.04.
400 m BC: 1. Warholm (Nor.) 47.30… 22. Müller (Czech Republic) 49.49 – did not advance to the finals.
100 m př. (-0,2 m/s): 1. Camach-Quinn (PRI) 12.26.
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