On Tuesday evening in Paris, U.S. sprinter Gabby Thomas ended a 12-year American gold medal drought within the girls’s 200m last, profitable gold in 21.83 seconds.
Thomas has been almost unbeatable this season, profitable eight of her 9 200m races, and it was no totally different on Tuesday evening on the Stade de France. She received by two-tenths of a second forward of the newly minted 100m Olympic champion, Julien Alfred, denying Alfred the Olympic dash double. American Brittany Brown received bronze in a photograph end forward of British athletes Dina Asher-Smith and Daryll Neita.
The one the place @itsgabbyt will get the 🥇
Girls’s 200m last was 🔥
🥇 Gabby Thomas 21.83 🇺🇸
🥈 Julien Alfred 22.08 🇱🇨
🥉 Brittany Brown 22.20 🇺🇸 #Paris2024 pic.twitter.com/jIf3f9IrL1— World Athletics (@WorldAthletics) August 6, 2024
The final time an American received gold in a person girls’s dash occasion on the Olympic Video games was Allyson Felix within the girls’s 200m at London 2012.
“I’m nonetheless wrapping my head round this; profitable 200m gold was the happiest second of my life,” Thomas says. “I really feel very grateful for my neighborhood and my staff.” The American was apparently doing burpees within the Olympic name room to maintain her coronary heart fee up earlier than the race. She says she does 10 earlier than each race she does.
Neither the reigning Olympic champion within the girls’s 200m from Tokyo 2020, Jamaica’s Elaine Thompson-Herah, nor her compatriot, the reigning world champion, Shericka Jackson, competed right here in Paris; it was the primary Olympic 200m last and not using a Jamaican lady within the lineup since 1976.
Thomas’s gold is her third profession Olympic medal, having received bronze in Tokyo 2020 within the 200m occasion, and silver with the ladies’s 4x100m relay staff. That is the fifth gold medal for Crew USA in athletics on the Paris 2024 Olympic Video games, and the second on Tuesday evening on the Stade de France, with Cole Hocker profitable gold within the males’s 1,500m last.
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