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RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Rio 2016 Olympic champion Thiago Braz this Tuesday (3) won the bronze medal in the pole vault event at the Tokyo Olympics. The 27-year-old athlete's best jump was 5.87 meters. Initially, Thiago surpassed the 5.55m mark. Then the bar rose to 5.70m and 5.80m, until reaching 5.87m and surpassing 5.82m, the season's best vault for him. Braz was eliminated in the fight for gold when the bar reached 5.92m, failing to surpass it on his three attempts. Sweden's Armand Duplantis won the gold medal . . . To read the full NEWS and much more, Subscribe to our Premium Membership P...

Armand "Mondo" Duplantis has won gold at the Tokyo Olympics. The pole vaulter from Lafayette cleared 6.02 meters on his first attempt, and that turned out to be good enough to secure the top spot. Duplantis was one of 14 men to advance to Tuesday's finals after clearing 5.75 in the qualification round. To open the finals round, Duplantis cleared 5.8 meters, a height that only seven vaulters, or half of the finals field, made. He would pass on an attempt at 5.87 meters while two other competitors cleared that mark -- American Christopher Nilsen and Brazil's Thiago Braz (the defending gold med...

Published August 3, 2021, 8:53 AM MB File Photo EJ Obiena shoots for Olympic glory against familiar opponents on Tuesday when he guns for nothing but the gold medal in the men’s pole vault at the Olympic Track Stadium in Tokyo. A podium victory for Obiena would make him only the third Filipino athlete to win a medal in the sport after Simeon Toribio (men’s high jump) and Miguel White (men’s 400-meter hurdles) won bronzes in the 1932 Los Angeles and 1936 Berlin Olympics. Obiena, ranked No. 6 in the world, cleared 5.75 meters in Saturday’s qualifications to book one of the 14 spots in t...

le 03/08/2021 17:06 Temps de lecture : 1 min. Elaine Thompson seule au monde. La reine du sprint jamaïcaine a remporté haut la main le 200 m des Jeux olympiques de Tokyo en signant le deuxième meilleur chrono de tous les temps, mardi 3 août 2021. (LUIS ACOSTA / AFP) Le perchiste Renaud Lavillenie ne remportera pas une troisième médaille olympique à la perche après l'or à Londres en 2012 et l'argent à Rio en 2016. Blessé à la cheville droite, le Français n'a pu passer qu'une seule barre, à 5,70 m lors de la finale.