American continues her nation’s domination while Frenchwoman lands the first home athletics medal of the 2024 Olympics
Masai Russell completed the USA’s clean sweep of the hurdles events at the Paris Olympics, winning the 100m hurdles title, but it was the second place of Cyréna Samba-Mayela that received the biggest cheer of the night as the French crowd was able to celebrate the host nation’s first athletics medal success of these Games.
In what was the closest of races that went to a photo finish, Russell got the verdict with 12.33 (-0.3) from the fast-finishing Frenchwoman, whose late charge from lane one very nearly landed her the top prize.
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With French President Emmanuel Macron watching on, there was a tense wait for the results to be confirmed but the emotion poured down from the stands as the order was revealed, Samba-Mayela clocking 12.34 as defending champion Jasmine Camacho-Quinn took bronze with 12.36.
Nadine Visser of the Netherlands and Grace Stark of the USA both ran 12.43 for fourth and fifth respectively as Devynne Charlton finished sixth in 12.56.
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