QUOTE OF THE DAY
“I am so excited. It took a lot of courage. It’s really amazing, this one was still missing. Three times world champion, now I can add the Olympic title to this. This one is for my family. Success is not only for me but for my family, my coach, my management. The whole team around me. I couldn’t have done it without them,” Joshua Cheptegei.
RESULT OF THE DAY
Olympic record for Cheptegei in the 10,000m final (26:43.14), improving Kenenisa Bekele’s 27:01.17 from Beijing 2008. It took 52 years since Viren broke 28 minutes at Olympics until Cheptegei broke 27 minutes here.
World record for USA in the mixed 4x400m relay heats (3:07.41), with Norwood (44.47), Little (49.32), Deadmon (44.17) and Brown (49.45). Can they go faster in finals and will the composition be the same?
SURPRISE OF THE DAY
The big favourites have qualified, several smaller surprises, Lake, Demireva, Distin, Apostolovski failed to qualify in the high jump, Mechaal, Mills, Habz only for repechages in the 1500m. In shot put Eurochamp Mihaljevic and Polish Haratyk with Bukowiecki.
MEDALS (8 countries)
CHN, ECU, UGA 1-0-0; ESP 0-1-1; BRA, ETH 0-1-0; AUS, USA 0-0-1.
POINTS (15 countries)
ESP, ETH 15; ECU 11; CAN, UGA 9; CHN 8; BRA 7; AUS, USA 6.
TITLE DEFENDERS
No (3): Stano, Palmisano, Barega
TOP MARKS
WR (1): 3:07.41 mixed 4x400m USA (230th WR at Olympic Games)
OR (2): 3:07.41 mixed 4x400m USA, 26:43.14 10,000m Cheptegei
WL (1): 3:07.41 mixed 4x400m USA
AR (3): 1 – Oceania, NACAC, Europe
AGENTS (individual gold medals)
Jos Hermens, not known for walking winners.
STATS
DEC: Warner’s 10.25 is the second fastest Olympic decathlon 100m (behind his 10.12 from Tokyo);
100 m – women: 11.13 by French Joseph is the fastest non-qualifier from first round at Olympics
4x400m – mixed: USA’s world record (3:07.41) is of course the fastest 1st round time, and 3:11.99 by Nigeria is the fastest non-qualifying time.
800m – women: The fastest heat time at Olympics was improved twice by Ethiopian runners, Mesele (1:58.07) in the third heat and Duguma (1:57.90) in the fifth heat.
5000 m – women: Nozomi Tanaka was fastest nonqualifier in Tokyo and Paris over 5000 m.
Discus – women: Allman’s 69.59 is the longest qualification throw, and 62.54 by another American Fraley is the longest non-qualifier.
10,000m – men: Top 13 finishers under previous OR; 0.32 sec. is the lowest difference between 1 and 3; best ever (all competitions) marks for place 6-13; first gold for UGA and second medal for Cheptegei.
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