USA’s Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone made a stupendous and successful defence of her Olympic 400m hurdles title at the Paris 2024 Games on Thursday (8) as she took 0.28 off her own world record* with 50.37.
Pakistan won its first ever Olympic gold in athletics via Arshad Nadeem, who launched an Olympic record of 92.97m to win the men’s javelin. USA’s Grant Holloway finally got the one thing his career was missing, Olympic gold, in the men’s 110m hurdles, clocking 12.99. While in the women’s long jump, effervescent US star Tara Davis-Woodhall, with a leap of 7.10m, achieved her lifelong dream.
