Tokyo : Jamaica’s Hansle Parchment shocked favourite Grant Holloway on Thursday to win the 110 metre hurdles at the Tokyo Olympics, while American Ryan Crouser dominated the men’s shot put and Portugal’s Pedro Pichardo took gold in the men’s triple jump.
Parchment came back on the world champion Holloway of the United States at the seventh hurdle to finish in 13.04 seconds.
The American finished in 13.09, barely holding on to silver, with Jamaica’s Ronald Levy finishing 0.01 behind him for bronze, dpa reports.
Holloway is the world champion from 2019 and had not lost a race since the summer of 2020. He recently missed the world record by one-hundredth of a second with a run of 12.81.
Minutes later, Crouser claimed gold in shot put with a best of 23.30 metres, his third Olympic record for the day.
Crouser, 28, staked his claim for gold on his first throw with an Olympic record of 22.83 before throwing 22.93 in his second and 23.30 in his last effort, falling just 7 centimetres short of the world record he set just in June.
He had set the previous Olympic record of 22.52 in Rio.
The podium was a repeat of the Rio Games, with fellow American Joe Kovacs taking silver and New Zealand’s Tom Walsh claiming bronze.
Kovacs, 32, threw 22.65, while Walsh, 29, threw a season best of 22.47.
Pichardo led the long jump wire to wire, but recorded his winning try of 17.98 metres, which also a national record, at the third time of asking.
China’s Zhu Yaming jumped a personal best of 17.57 to win silver.
Burkina Faso’s Hugues Fabrice Zango won bronze with 17.47.
American Will Claye, who won two silvers at the last two worlds and Olympics, failed to make the podium but jumped a season best of 17.44.
In semi-final action, Britain clocked the fastest time in the women’s 4×100 with 41.55, followed by the US and Germany. In the men’s 4×100 Jamaica recorded the best time, followed by China and Canada, while the US missed out.
