TRACK & FIELD SUPPORTERS NEWSLETTER BRITISH & INTERNATIONAL SUPPORTERS EVENT INFORMATION SERVICE T OKYO NEWSLETTER No 7 T HURS DAY 5th August 20 2 1 IT ’ S A JOLLY HOLLY DAY AS DAMIAN & RYAN SET OLYMPIC RECORDS – GB W 4 x 100 NR Men’s 400: Bloomin ’ Marvellous Gardiner Women’s Pole Vault Final: Wot Katie Did Men’ s 20km Walk: Sta no and Deliver World champion Steven Gardiner maintained Katie Nageotte won a thrilling women's pole Ita ly won their third gold as Massimo Stano his one - lap dominance with a well - paced ru n vault competition . S idorova The reigning world with no real quality international form left the that saw him power to a clear victory as Doha champion had to settle for silver this time while home athletes Koki Ikeda and Toshikazu silver medallist Anthony Zambrano followed Bradsha w won the first global medal of her Yaminishi behind with a very fast last 3km in him home aga in and 3r d went to Kirani James career with an inspired 3 r d p lace, becoming very hot conditions. GB’s Callum Wilkinson who completed his Olympic set after wi nning GB ’ s first female Olympic jumps medallist worked his way superbly up to 10 th in 1:22:38 London and finishing 2n d in Rio. He started sinc e 1984, when Sue Hearnshaw won L ong with Tom Bosworth 25 th 1:25:57. fast but struggled in the straight and just came Jump bronze. The 29 - year - old has been one of GOLD: Massimo Stano (ITA) 1:21:05 out on top of Michael Cherry’s PB 44.21 but Britain's most consistent athl etes of the last SILVER: Koki Ikeda (JPN) 1:21:14 was much slower than his 43.88 sem i - final. decade and though she was won a European BRONZE: Toshikazu Yamanishi (JPN) 1:21:28 Michael Norman was 5th and it meant USA’s Indoor and European under - 23 title, a global Decathlon: Damian busters opposition disappointing me n’s track results continued - medal had been just b een beyon d her reach Damian Warner smashed the Olympic and since 1908, USA have previously failed to miss amassing five global top - seven places, Commonwealth record with a 9018 points t otal out on a 400m medal only in 1980 due .to a inc luding 6th at London 2012 and 5 th in Rio with marks that included a Olympic decathlon boycott and London in 2012. and a World Cha mps 4 th plac e in Doha two re cord hurdles of 13.46 to go 4 th all - time and GOLD: Steven Gardiner (BAH) 43.85 years ago. The event started slowly at the win by nearly 300 points. WR holder Kevin SILVER: Antho ny Zambrano (COL) 44.08 opening height of 4.50m, with only 5 first - ti me Mayer snatched second thanks to a 73.09m BRONZE : Kirani James (GRN) 44.19 clea rances, five 5 at the second time of asking javelin throw while Ashley Moloney set a n Men’s Shot: Crouser funding an d 3 on their final attempt. Sidorova and Oceania record with a big PB of 8649 . Bradshaw cleared their first attempts but world Ryan Crouser produced the greatest shot series GOLD: Damian Warner (CAN) 9018 OR in history as he beat his previous Olympic leader Nageotte was on t he backfoot straight SILVER: Kevin Mayer (FRA) 8726 record with all six of his throws and fell just away with two failures. At 4.70m, only four BRONZE: Ashley Moloney (AUS) 8649 competitors cleared. There was incredulity seven cms short of his WR set in the US Trials. Heptathlon: Thiam for a Dream about so many struggling but people seem to The defendi ng champion added 35 cms to his Nafi Thiam, only 3r d overnight, battled back forget that this height won a medal for the great 2016 mark in the opening round which he with a 6.60m long jump and 54.68m javelin to Yelena Isinbayeva in L ondon in 2012 and that improved to 22.93m in the second. He dropped defend her title by o ver 100 p ts. Anouk V etter only 9 athletes had cleared 4.75m all season . off a little in the next three rounds - 22.86, set a Dutch record in 2n d and her compatriot Nageotte trailed Sidorova all the way with the 22.74 and 22.54 but finished with a brilliant Emma Oosterwegel snatched 3rd with a fast Russian clearing 4.80m and 4.85m at the first 2 3.30m. Joe Kovacs who beat him in a brilliant 800m. Belgium also took 4 th for BEL / NED attempt but she could go no higher while the cont est in Doha, was a distant 2n d but still domination – the “ if onlys ” for KJT. threw exceptionally and his 4 th round 22.65m American’s 4.90m second jump ultimate l y proved enough for gold. Bradshaw cleared GOLD: Nafi Thiam (BEL) 6791 and final round 22.60m were better than SILVER: Anouk Vetter (NED) 6689 Crouser’s previous Olympic mark. Kovacs had 4.80m at the second attempt and needed to as BRONZE: Emma O sterwegel (NED) 6590 also been 2 nd in Rio and th e same podium Katerina Stefanidi had gone over on the previous jump but she then jumped 4.85m at 4x100 and 4x400: Relay good news happened here as Tomas Walsh had three 22 British women won their 4x100 in the fastest time metre throws with a best off 22.47m in the final her first attempt which put he r into 2n d until and GB NR of 41.55 in easily defeating half - strength round. Darlan Romani threw 21.88m for fourth the American cleare d 4.90m. T he Briton had a USA and Jamaica squads. The men qualified 5 th and Zane Weir excelled with 21.41m in fifth. good 2nd and 3r d attem pt at 4.90m but was fastest with 38.02 with Jamaica fastest in 3 7.82 but GOLD: Ryan Crouser (USA) 23.30 OR delighted with her first major gl obal medal. USA failed to qualify with a fast 38.10 which only th SILVER: Joe Kovacs (USA) 22.65 GOLD: Katie Nageotte (USA ) 4.90 left them 6 . I n the 4x400 GB ’ s Emily Diamond BRONZE : Tomas Walsh (NZL) 22.47 SILVER: Anzhelika Sidorova (ROC ) 4.85 (51.5), Zoey Clark (50.9), Laviai Nielsen (50.92) and Nicole Year gin (50.59) ran 3:23.99 - faster tha n the BRONZE : Holly Bradshaw (GBR) 4 .85 Men’s Triple Jump: Pichardo perfect Rio br onze an d 4 th fastest without Jodie Williams Former Cuban Pedro Pichardo dominated the Men’s 110m Hurdles : Hansle ’ s Fairy Tale competition. He opened wi th two 17.61m Men ’ s 1500m Se mis & Women ’ s HJ Qual World champion Grant Holloway was one of All three Brits made the 1500m final fo r the first time jumps and then a P ortuguese NR 17.98m (he the biggest favourite but failed to match his since 1984. Jake Wightman won his heat in 3:33.48 jumped 18 m when Cuban) gave him an ea sy heat form and fell away over the closing with a 52 last lap while Josh Kerr ran the fastest ever victory: h is phases were 6.48m, 5.34m and hurdles to suffer a shock defeat to Hansle British Olympic time (beating Coe’s 3:32.53) with 6.16m T here was a good battle for 2n d with Parchment. The 2012 medallist was only thi rd 3:32.18 behind Abel Kipsang’s OR 3:31.65. Jake Yaming Zu producing a 17.57m PB in round in the Jamaican Champs and some thought Heyward ran a PB 3:32.82. Morgan Lak e made the five. Indoor WR record holder Hugues Fabrice lucky to be selected but Parchment won in an HJ final with a 1.95m leap but Emily Borthwick Zango was not at his best but h e did enough for missed out despite equalling her PB with 1.93m. impressive 13.04 w ith only a great dive giving 3r d and win Burkina Fa so’s first ever Olympic Holloway silver ahead of Ron Levy. Andy TOMORROW Fri 6 AUGUST medal with a 17.47m to deny seven - time global Pozzi was in contention at halfway but faded to th 23.30 M 50km walk. ( Thurs 5 Aug) medallist Will Claye (17.44m) and Mohammed 7 in 13.30 in his first global final. 08.30 W 20km Walk Triki’s Algerian records of 17.42m and 17.43m GOLD: Hansle Parchment (JAM) 13.04 12.25 M 4x400 heats. 12.50 W Javelin final GOLD: Pedro Piuchardo (POR) 17.98 SILVER: Grant Holloway (USA ) 13.09 13.00 M 5000 m final 13.35 W 400m final SILVER: Yaming Zhu (CHN) 1 7.57 BRONZE: Ronald Levy (JAM) 13.10 13.50 W 1500m 14.30 W 4x100m BRONZE : Hugues Fabrice Zango (B UR) 17.47 14. 50 M 4x100 m TRACK & FIELD TOURS Track & Field House 66 Fryerning Lane Tel: 01277 354377 www.trackandfield.co.uk INGATESTONE ESSEX CM4 9EE GB [email protected] .