With a performance as electrifying as it was enthralling, as powerful as it was peerless, Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone cemented her status as one of the sport’s all-time greats by obliterating her world record in the 400m hurdles final at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games on Thursday (8 August) – the US superstar clocking a time that seems plucked from a different stratosphere: 50.37.
That was the undoubted highlight on a night where Letsile Tebogo won Botswana its first ever Olympic gold medal, floating to victory in the men’s 200m in 19.46 with 100m champion Noah Lyles only third in 19.70.
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.
• Morning session round-up
• Evening session round-up
Day seven event reports
• Men’s 200m
• Men’s 110m hurdles
• Women’s 400m hurdles
• Women’s long jump
• Men’s javelin
Looking ahead
• Five things to look forward to on day nine
Credit: World Athletics
