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Old 21-07-2021, 07:06 AM #1
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Default Tokyo2020 Athletics discussion thread (from July 30th to August 8th)



all scheduled for the last 10 days of the games
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of course i'll be my most patriotic self (as if i am but still) to root for our lovely fierce ladies Dafne Schippers, Sifan Hassan
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Dafne Schippers won't be in the 100m event, she will still compete in 200m and the 4x100m


also Jamile Samuel won't be in the 100m event, and also same with her also will still compete in the 200m and the 4x100m
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our schedule of day 1 of athletics event


Men's

Qualifyings of High Jump, Discus Throw



Heats for 400m hurdles, 3000m steeplechase


and a medal event of the 10.000m


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Women's

Heats for 100m, 800m, 5000m


Qualifyings for Triple Jump, Shot Put


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Mixed

Heats for 4x400m relay
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5000m women finalists

Sifan Hassan (Netherlands)

Agnes Jebet Tirop (Kenya)

Senbere Teferi (Ethiopia)

Ejgayehu Taye (Ethiopia)

Lilian Kasait Rengeruk (Kenya)

Gudaf Tsegay (Ethiopia)

Hellen Obiri (Kenya)

Nadia Battocletti (Italy)

Elise Cranny (USA)

Karoline Bjerkeli Grovdal (Norway)

Yasemin Can (Turkey)

Karissa Schweizer (USA)

Selamawit Teferi (Israel)

Ririka Hironaka (Japan)

Andrea Seccafien (Canada)
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When did mixed relays start

Ireland
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women's 400m hurdles qualified for semi finals

(no particular order)

Viktoriya Tkachuck (Ukraine) Q

Melissa Gonzalez (Colombia) Q

Anna Cockrell (USA) Q

Sage Watson (Canada) Q

Anna Ryzhykova (Ukraine) Q

Janieve Russell (Jamaica) Q

Paulien Couckruyt (Belgium) Q

Linda Olivieri (Italy) Q

Sydney McLaughlin (USA) Q

Gianna Woodruff (Panama) Q

Sara Slott Pedersen (Denmark) Q

Quach Thi Lan (Vietnam) Q

Femke Bol (Netherlands) Q

Tia-Adana Belle (Barbados) Q

Wendy Nel (South Africa) Q

Jessica Turner (GB) Q

Dalilah Muhammad (USA) Q

Carolina Krafzik (Germany) Q

Lea Sprunger (Switzerland) Q

Joanna Linkiewicz (Poland) Q

Yadisleidis Pedroso (Italy) q (one of four fastest)

Amalie Luel (Norway) q (one of four fastest)

Zurian Hechavarria (Cuba) q (one of four fastest)

Emma Zapletalova (Slovaki) q (one of four fastest)
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4x400 qualifiers to final


USA (successfully appealed against their dq)

Ireland

Belgium

Poland

Netherlands

Jamaica

Spain

GB

Germany (also successfully appealed, and so there will be 9 teams in the final)
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todays medal event in the field

men's discus throw

the finalists for that are


Daniel Stahl (Sweden)

Andrius Gudzius (Lithuania)

Kristjan Ceh (Slovenia)

Matthew Danny (Australia)

Lukas Weisshaidinger (Austria)

Mauricio Ortega (Colombia)

Simon Pettersson (Sweden)

Sam Mattis (USA)

Daniel Jasinski (Germany)

Ola Stunes Isene (Norway)

Clemens Prufer (Germany)

Chad Wright (Jamaica)
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olympics for TeamGB's Dina Asher-Smith already over

failed to qualify
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a Sweden top two in discus throw





the winning Polish 4x400 team





Jamaica 1, 2, 3 at 100m
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Triple Jump women, top 3




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100m men gold medal winner for Italy

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this makes Lamont Marcell Jacobs the surprising successor to legend Usain Bolt
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something remarkable within TeamNL now

Sifan Hassan aims for 3 gold medals in 1.500, 5.000 and 10.000 metre events


apparently she also has been preparing for this last year with the extra time after she found out the olympics were postponed for one year
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Big world record for Warholm in 400m hurdles.
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women's hammer throw gold medalist for Poland





and for Germany, women's long jump gold medalist Malaika Mihambo
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That was pretty bad from USA in 4x100m relay.
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That was pretty bad from USA in 4x100m relay.
They won that event every year since 1960 apart from when they boycotted
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with Portugal's 4th medal in the Triple Jump, tokyo2020 have been their best medal event to date
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