Texas’ Tara Davis-Woodhall takes gold in Olympic ladies’s lengthy soar ultimate

Tara Davis-Woodhall is the Olympic champion in ladies’s lengthy soar.

The previous Texas observe star unleashed a large leap within the lengthy soar finals Thursday with a soar of seven.10 meters.

Her 6.90 to guide qualifying Tuesday was solely .01 behind the soar that received her silver on the worlds final yr and higher than the 6.84 that positioned her sixth in Tokyo.

“I didn’t count on to be in Tokyo,” Davis-Woodhall mentioned Tuesday. “I used to be a university child, similar to, on the market leaping for enjoyable. I’m nonetheless leaping for enjoyable, however now I’m leaping for a purpose.”

Fellow American jumper Jasmine Moore of Grand Prairie received bronze with a soar of 6.96 meters after successful bronze within the triple soar on Saturday.

Images: Led by Tara Davis-Woodhall, all three People qualify for the ladies’s lengthy soar ultimate at Paris Olympics

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