American sprinter Rai Benjamin beat world-record-holder Karsten Warholm of Norway and Brazil’s Alison dos Santos within the 400-meter hurdles last to win a gold medal on the Paris Olympics on Friday.
Benjamin clocked 46.46 seconds within the race, ending a number of strides forward of Warholm (47.06) and Dos Santos (47.26) – two of the world’s quickest males. Regardless of touchdown awkwardly after he got here off the eighth hurdle, Benjamin nonetheless cruised to the highest spot.
Benjamin received silver behind Warholm when the Norwegian set the world document on the Tokyo Video games three years in the past. That is the second Olympic gold for 27-year-old Benjamin, who was a part of the 4×400 relay workforce that received in Tokyo.
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Earlier within the day, Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone set a world document within the girls’s 400-meter hurdles. McLaughlin-Levrone ran in 50.37 seconds, beating out her personal earlier world document time of fifty.65 seconds which she set again in June on the U.S. Olympic trials.
And thanks partially to a thundering effort in wet situations from Sha’Carri Richardson, the U.S. additionally secured a gold medal Friday within the girls’s 4×100 relay.
