The highest two finishers from Tokyo 2020 traded podium positions in an electrifying 400m hurdles last on the Stade de France on Friday, as American Rai Benjamin unseated the defending Olympic champion, world champion and world file holder, Karsten Warholm of Norway. Benjamin, the silver medallist from Tokyo, took gold in a season’s greatest 46.46–nicely forward of Warholm’s 47.06, whereas Alison dos Santos of Brazil repeated his bronze medal efficiency from Tokyo 2020 in 47.26 seconds.
Warholm, in lane 7, had Benjamin in his sights in lane 8, and gained floor on the American via the primary flip, however couldn’t fairly make up the stagger. By the house stretch, Benjamin was pulling away, leaving Warholm behind.
Having medalled on the final 4 main championships within the occasion, relationship again to the 2019 World Championships in Doha, the 26-year-old Benjamin was one of many favourites for gold on Friday; he had the quickest time on the earth this yr (46.46). Warholm, Benjamin and dos Santos are the three quickest males ever within the 400m hurdles occasion. Warholm set the world and Olympic file of 45.94 in an empty stadium in Tokyo three years in the past.
In Might, the hurdler stirred controversy when he acknowledged his intention to not put on a race bib on his uniform on the Olympics. (Race bibs are required to determine athletes as per World Athletics guidelines; clearly somebody should have talked him out of it, since he was most positively sporting race bibs at these Video games; not sporting one would earn him a disqualification.)
OLYMPIC CHAMP 🔥@_Kingben_ wins his first world gold and it’s the OLYMPIC GOLD ‼️
46.46 ⏱️#Paris2024 #Olympics pic.twitter.com/NwVNSWFiIQ
— World Athletics (@WorldAthletics) August 9, 2024
Staff USA had one other standout evening on the monitor, regardless of a disappointing loss to Staff Canada within the males’s 4x100m relay. The American ladies redeemed the evening by taking gold within the ladies’s 4x100m relay last.
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