Gabrielle Thomas has reclaimed the 200m scepter for the United States at the 2024 Paris Olympics, replacing two-time champion Elaine Thompson-Hera of Jamaica in 21.83 seconds to beat Santa Lucia’s Julen Alfred, the hectometer winner.
After bronze at Tokyo 2020 and silver at the World Championships in Budapest 2023, 27-year-old Gabrielle Thomas became Olympic champion, spending 25 hundredths of a second less than Alfred (22.08), who won the second medal in history for the small Caribbean island after gold in the 100.
In addition, North American Brittany Brown, the world runner-up in 2019, reached the Olympic medals for the first time, winning bronze in 22.20 seconds, two hundredths ahead of Britain’s Dina Asher-Smith, fourth, crowned at Doha 2019, where she was second in the 100m, after failing to advance past the semi-finals at Tokyo 2020.
Elaine Thompson-Hera, the 100m and 200m Olympic champion at Rio 2016 and Tokyo 2020, has missed the Paris 2024 Olympic Games after suffering an Achilles tendon injury in June.
Author: Lusa
Source: CM Jornal
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