QUOTE OF THE DAY
“I do not know how to describe it. It is surreal. It has always been a dream to become an Olympic champion and in decathlon, it is like an ageing event. So to win the gold at 22, I did not expect it. I came here with the goal to have a better score than I had in Budapest (at the 2023 world championships). I was in the top eight there so maybe I expected to be number five or something. And I won. I have been practising a lot and my training went pretty well,so I just tried to have fun. And I did, ” Markus Rooth.
RESULT OF THE DAY
Julien Alfred improved her own 100m national record by 0.06 sec. clocking 10.72, fourth fastest Olympic time ever behind 2 from ETH and 1 by Flo-Jo, and won ahead of Richardson by a large margin of 0.15 sec.
Femke Bol stormed to the Olympic title for Netherlands in the mixed 4x400m relay, pulling back a big USA lead with 47.9 last lap. She was fourth and ended first, Netherlands clocked second fastest time ever and European record.
SURPRISE OF THE DAY
22-years-old Markus Rooth shocked all (remaining) favourites and won the Olympic decathlon, although his previous global best was the eighth place in Budapest 2023 Worlds, he is also 2019 European U20 medallist and 2023 European U23 champion. He improved his personal best and Norwegian record by 188 points, thanks to life-time bests in the 100m (10.71), 400m (47.69) and pole vault (530). Norway won olympic decathlon gold back in 1920.
MEDALS (16 countries)
USA 1-3-3; CHN, DMA, ECU, LCA, NED, NOR, UGA 1-0-0; ESP, JAM 0-1-1.
POINTS (31 countries)
USA 58; JAM 21; ESP 18; ETH 15; ITA, NED 13; GBR, ECU 11.
TITLE DEFENDERS
Yes (1): Crouser
No (4): Stano, Palmisano, Barega, POL, Warner
NC (2): Rojas, Thompson-Herah
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, outdoor Lafond 15.02
AR (4): 2 – Europe; 1 – Oceania, NACAC
AGENTS (individual gold medals)
Paul Doyle, Jos Hermens, Henry Rolle, Stale Jan Froynes, Thea Lafond is representing herself and not known for walking winners.
STATS
DEC: Victor’s 53.91 in the discus is the best Olympic decathlon performance; 2019 World champion Kaul threw 77.78, the best Olympic decathlon mark in the javelin throw; best overall Olympic scores for places 5-6; first medal for GRN.
PV – men: 575 cm equalled the best qualification result from Tokyo 2021, 570 cm cleared by Stecchi and Collet is the highest non-qualifier mark.
1500m – men: The fastest…
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