Canada’s Andre De Grasse Wins 200m, Allyson Felix Makes 400m Final

Canada’s Andre De Grasse Wins 200m, Allyson Felix Makes 400m Final initially appeared on NBC Sports Chicago

Canada Andre de Grasse received the gold medal within the males’s 200m remaining Wednesday crossing the end line in 19.62 seconds, a brand new nationwide document.

Kenneth Bednarek completed second to win the silver medal, setting a brand new private better of 19.68 seconds. Noah Lyles, who entered the race because the gold medal favourite took the bronze medal in third, 17-year-old Erriyon Knighton completed fourth.

For de Grasse, he redeems himself after ending second to Usain Bolt on the 2016 Rio Olympics.

Within the ladies’s 400m American legend Allyson Felix, competing in her fifth Olympic Video games clinched her spot within the ladies’s 400m remaining. Felix could make U.S. Olympic historical past by tying or breaking Carl Lewis’ document for probably the most medals received by an American monitor and discipline athlete (10). 

Allyson Felix Advances to Girls’s 400m Remaining

Allyson Felix will try to win one other medal within the ladies’s 400m remaining. The 35-year-old mom completed second in her warmth to routinely qualify for the race. Felix crossed the end line in 49.89 seconds.

She is already proving to everybody that age is only a quantity, ending first within the third warmth of Spherical 1 on Monday in 50.84 seconds.

Quanera Hayes began off sturdy within the first warmth of the semifinals however drained out during the last 250 meters. She completed with a time of 49.81 seconds. American Madeline Jonathas completed fourth within the second warmth with a time of fifty.51 seconds.

Courtney Frerichs wins silver in Girls’s Steeplechase

Courtney Frerichs made historical past for the U.S. Olympic Observe and Area crew, successful silver within the ladies’s steeplechase Wednesday morning in Tokyo.

After taking the lead for a lot of the race, Frerichs was handed on the ultimate lap by Uganda’s Peruth Chemutai. Chemutai grew to become the primary lady from Uganda to win an Olympic medal.

Frerichs completed in 9:04.79, simply over three seconds behind Uganda’s Peruth Chemuta (9:01.45), who received the primary gold medal by a Ugandan lady in Olympic historical past. Kenya’s Hyvin Kiyeng received bronze in 9:05.39.

Frerichs provides ‘Olympian medalist’ to her checklist of athletic titles, which incorporates the 2016 NCAA Champion within the 3000m steeplechase and a World Championship silver medalist.

American Valerie Constien completed in twelfth, and reigning Olympic bronze medalist Emma Coburn completed 14th after falling on the ultimate water soar.