World Athletics Championships UPDATE: Jamaica provides extra medals

Jamaica added two extra medals to its tally on the finish of the boys’s lengthy bounce ultimate a short time in the past.

Wayne Pinnock noticed the gold medal snatched from him within the final spherical by Greece’s Miltiadis Tentoglou with 8.52m to Pinnock’s 8.50m.

Additionally within the ultimate spherical 2019 champion Tajay Gayle snatched the bronze medal from teammate Carey McLeod with 8.27m, the identical distance however forward of countback.
It was a historic ultimate for Jamaica with three contributors.

Jamaica grabs gold medals 

Earlier in the present day, Danielle Williams and Antonio Watson crashed the celebration to land gold medals for Jamaica.

Williams, the 2015 World Champion, turned again the clock to win the ladies’s 100m hurdles in 12.43 seconds, simply forward of Olympics champion Jasmine Camacho-Quinn in 12.44 seconds and American Kendra Harrison in 12.46 seconds.

Minutes later Watson ran the race of his life to win the boys’s 400m ultimate in 44.21 seconds forward of Nice Britain’s Hudson-Smith in 44.31 seconds and American Quincy Corridor in 44.37 seconds, a private finest.

Clayton provides one other bronze medal

Rushell Clayton, Jamaica’s finest 400m hurdler all season, proved her mettle when she ran a private finest 52.81 seconds to say the bronze medal in her pet occasion on the ultimate occasion on Day 6 of the nineteenth World Athletics Championahips simply now.

One in all three Jamaicans within the ultimate, Clayton was only one hundreth of ansecind behind American Shamier Little in a season finest 52.80 seconds, however properly behind gold medal winner and overwhelming favourite Femke Bol of Netherlands in 51.70 seconds.

Janieve Russell and Andrenette Knight completed properly down the monitor.

It was the fifth medal for Jamaica on the day following gold medals by Danielle Williams within the ladies’s 100m hurdles ultimate and Antonio Watson within the males’a 400m ultimate. Lengthy jumpers Wayne Pinnock and Tajay Gayle had earlier gained silver and bronze.

Jamaica has elevated its medal depend to eight with two gold, three silver and three bronze.

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