QatarTribune Qatar_Tribune It defines QatarTribuneChannel qatar_tribune everything. It’s just so big. It’s almost like history here. It was the only thing missing from my collection. Norway’s Karsten Warholm after 400m WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 4, 2021 hurdles gold Qatar’s Younousse and Tijan ready for beach volleyball QF clash against Italy fierce battle, which the Qataris No. 1 Pair to won by two points to prompt a decider. They found more en- take on Italy’s ergy to persevere through the Nicolai and Lupo Tokyo heat in the third set suc- cessfully and celebrate with a AGENCIES/TNN 2-1 (14-21, 21-19, 15-11) victory. TOKYO “We were ready for a long game,” Cherif. “Even in prac- QATar’s Cherif Younousse tice, our games are always very and Ahmed Tijan became one long. So I can say we were not of the first two teams to advance expecting an easy game. Now to the quarter-finals of the To- the first step is done. We’re kyo 2020 men’s Olympic beach ready for the second step.” volleyball at Shiokaze Park on Ahmed said, “We always Sunday. The world’s ace pair keep on fighting. We play on Wednesday will clash with some tactics, but the main goal Paolo Nicolai and Daniele Lupo is to keep on fighting. We nev- of Italy in the quarter-final at er give up. We don’t care about 4pm Doha Time. the score. We always focus on Nicolai and Lupo defeated the game, always focus on our- Michal Bryl and Grzegorz Fi- selves, not on the opponent or jalek of Poland in their last the score. We just have to play other defending champion, Grimalt and Esteban Grimalt round of 16 clash on Monday. well and enjoy the game.” Alison Cerutti, and his partner and advance to the quarterfi- The Qatari pair have The two thus will be keen Alvaro Filho. The Brazilians nals, where they will challenge emerged as heavy favourites to to move a step closer to the po- Qatar’s Cherif Younousse (R) and partner Ahmed Tijan during their men’s preliminary beach volleyball hammered out an emphatic Norway’s Anders Mol and win the men’s Olympic tour- dium with a deserving win in Pool C match of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics against the USA at the Shiokaze Park in Tokyo. (AFP) win over Mexico’s Josue Ga- Christian Sorum. nament. Younousse and Tijan the quarters. xiola and Jose Luis Rubio to In a similar fashion, their have shown their prepared- The line-up for Wednes- comeback against USA’s Jake World Championship final, and Edgars Tocs upset defend- advance in the tournament. compatriots Krasilnikov and ness the way they came back day’s quarter-finals was com- Gibb and Tri Bourne to snatch Thole and Wickler will try to ing champion Bruno Schmidt In their eighth final match, Stoyanovskiy edged Spain’s Pa- to shock Americans Nick Lu- pleted on Monday. In the only the last remaining vacancy get back at world champs Vi- former world champion Evan- Ilya Leshukov and Konstantin blo Herrera and Adrian Gavira. cena and Phil Dalhausser 2-1 three-setter clash, Germany’s among the best eight. acheslav Krasilnikov and Oleg dro Goncalves. In the last eight Semenov of ROC kept more The quarter-finals win- in their final round of 16 clash. Julius Thole and Clemens Next, in a remake of the Stoyanovskiy of ROC. clash, Plavins and Tocs will focus when it counted the ners will play in the semis on The second set delivered a Wickler mastered a powerful 2019 FIVB Beach Volleyball Latvia’s Martins Plavins have to lock horns with the most to beat Chile’s Marco Thursday (August 5). Unstoppable Warholm smashes 400m hurdles world record in epic DPA Thompson-Herah ran TOKYO away from her rivals on the Rai Benjamin of home straight, clocking 21.53 Norway’s Karsten Warholm seconds for 200m gold after smashed his own world record USA: “This was her 100m success on Satur- to take gold in an iconic men’s probably the best day, and also having won both 400 metre hurdles at the Tokyo race ... in Olympic events at Rio 2016. Olympics Games on Tuesday. Only American Florence Warholm, a two-time history. I don’t Griffith-Joyner has run faster world champion, stormed even think Usain in her world record 21.34 sec- home to cross the line in 45.94 Bolt’s 9.5 topped onds in 1988. seconds, taking .76 of a second Christine Mboma of Na- off the mark he ran on July 1 at that. (It was) mibia got silver in 21.81 sec- home in Oslo. 45.9, man; 46.1 onds and American Gabrielle American Rai Benjamin Thomas earned bronze in crossed the line second in 46.17 and I lost. The 21.87. That left no place on the and Brazil’s Alison dos Santos nature of the podium for veteran Jamaican claimed bronze in 46.72, just beast.” Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce who two-hundredths off the former came fourth, another disap- record, in a race which saw six pointment after 100m silver. of the top seven set national or “It feels amazing to win continental records. two golds again. I have had Even fifth-placedA b- a rough week. I haven’t slept derrahman Samba of Qatar after the 100m final,” Thomp- clocked 47.12 which would son-Herah said. “That I could have been good enough for complete another double. I gold at every Games between can’t believe it.” 1996 and 2016. Vaulting sensation Duplan- Breaking the 46-second tis got gold as expected when barrier was the biggest moment the 21-year-old soared five of Warholm’s life, he said. heights in his first attempt for “It defines everything, all victory with 6.02m before fail- the hours I put in, everything ing to raise his world record to that my coach has been work- 6.19m - missing only narrowly ing for.” Warholm was “able to on two of his three attempts. find another gear” on the home American Christopher stretch of the race, he said. Nilsen pushed Duplantis as “It’s just so big. It’s almost he took silver with 5.97m, and like history here. It was the only 2016 gold medallist Thiago thing missing from my collec- Braz of Brazil earned bronze. tion. I had world champion- French 2012 winner and ships (gold). I had European 2016 runner-up Renaud Lavil- championships, I had the world Norway’s Karsten Warholm (L) crosses the finish line to win and break the world record ahead of second-placed USA’s Rai Benjamin (R) in the men’s 400m hurdles final of the Tokyo lenie was eighth with 5.70m, record, the European record. 2020 Olympic Games at the Olympic Stadium in Tokyo on Tuesday. Warholm stormed home to cross the line in 45.94 seconds. (AFP) plagued by injury. “The Olympic gold medal Mihambo snatched gold is what everybody talks about. claim back-to-back sprint in her final jump of the wom- I knew this race was going to doubles with 200m gold with en’s long jump, saving her be the toughest of my life, but the second fastest time in his- Sweden’s Armand Gold medallist best for last to pip American I was ready.” tory. Duplantis competes in Germany’s Malaika Brittney Reese and Nigeria’s Benjamin said: “This was Swedish world record the men’s pole vault final Mihambo with the Ese Brume with a season best probably the best race ... in holder Armand Duplan- during the Tokyo 2020 women’s long jump jump of 7.00 metres. Olympic history. I don’t even tis lived up to his top billing Olympic Games at the gold at the Olympic Reese, the 2012 Olympic think Usain Bolt’s 9.5 topped with pole vault gold and only Olympic Stadium in Tokyo Stadium in Tokyo champion, silver medallist that. (It was) 45.9, man; 46.1 narrowly missed a world re- on Tuesday. (AFP) on Sunday. (AFP) from Rio 2016 and four-time and I lost. The nature of the cord, German world cham- world champion, and Brume beast.” pion Malaika Mihambo got had 6.97m each with Reese Everything else paled long jump gold with her last taking silver on countback. against this morning race attempt, American teenager “I feel overwhelmed. It on day five of the athletics Athing Mu took 800m gold, was, I think, the most excit- programme, even Jamaican and Polish hammer throw ing women’s long jump com- Elaine Thompson-Herah be- queen Anita Wlodarczyk got a petition in history,” Miham- coming the first woman to third straight gold. bo said. Wednesday, August 4, 2021 13 TEAM QATAR ATHLETES IN ACTION AT TOKYO OLYMPICS Estonia’s Rasmus Qatar’s Femi Ogunode Magi, Qatar’s Abder- (C) crosses the finish line to rahman Samba, Bra- win ahead of Turkey’s Ramil zil’s Alison Dos San- Guliyev (L) and Japan’s tos, Norway’s Karsten Jun Yamashita (R) in the Warholm, USA’s Rai men’s 200m heats at the Benjamin and British Olympic Stadium in Tokyo Virgin Islands’ Kyron on Tuesday. Ogunode later McMaster compete in the semi-final clocked in the men’s 400m 20.34secs. (Pics: AFP) hurdles final at the Olympic Stadium in Tokyo on Tuesday. Qatar’s Adam Ali Musab, (3rd left) competes in the men’s 1500m heats at the Olympic Stadium in Tokyo on Tuesday. Musab clocked 3:42.55secs.