Crew GB’s Outstanding Feat: Ten Medals
Britain’s 10 medals in Paris equaled the entire achieved on the 2023 Budapest World Champs however surpassed the 5 medals on the Tokyo Olympics and the seven in Rio. Make no mistake, Olympic medals should not simple to return by.
GB medaled in all 5 relays, and as well as, there have been particular person medals for Keely Hodgkinson (gold 800), silvers for Matt Hudson-Smith (400), Josh Kerr (1500), and Katarina Johnson-Thompson (heptathlon), and bronze for Georgia Bell (1500). The relay medals consequence from a deliberate technique of funding athletes to run relays and involving them in common relay practices.
So far as the person medals go, solely Georgia Bell’s magnificent nationwide document within the 1500 for bronze is perhaps referred to as a shock. To be trustworthy, the 5 particular person medals might have been even higher. Matt Hudson-Smith was simply 0.04 from gold, and Josh Kerr was simply 0.14 seconds from successful. There are not any medals for fourth, however Emile Cairess’ marathon end was magnificent.
The Thrill of the Sprints: Shut Calls The sprints showcased the athletes’ velocity and willpower. Darryl Neita’s fourth place within the 100m, simply 0.04 from a medal, was a testomony to the fierce competitors. Within the 200 m, Dina Asher-Smith’s fourth place and Neita’s fifth place, each inside 0.02 and 0.03 from the medals, highlighted the small margins that may make an enormous distinction within the sprints. A match Zharnel Hughes would have certainly challenged for a males’s dash medal.
Different magnificent achievements embody Amber Anning, who adopted a PR with a nationwide document for fifth within the 400. How will you criticize Laura Muir, who set a nationwide document at 1500 final month, ran quicker in Paris however needed to accept fifth. Equally, Lizzie Chicken’s seventh place and nationwide document within the 3000 Steeplechase was magnificent.
There have been disappointments, too, with Morgan Lake, fourth in Budapest, failing at 1.92 within the excessive leap qualifying, and Molly Caudery, world lead in Pole vault at 4.92, maybe coming in too late within the competitors and registering no mark. It was only a dangerous day on the workplace. Ben Pattesen, bronze within the 800m in Budapest, didn’t make the ultimate, however solely by 0.24 seconds.
There was a actuality test within the ladies’s 800, the place there was excited hypothesis that Britain would possibly clean-sweep the medals. Keely Hodgkinson gained, and whereas Jemma Reekie and Phoebe Gill ran 1:58 within the semis, 15 others did, and neither reached the ultimate.
Equally, Louie Hinchliffe, our new Carl Lewis-coached sprinter, ran 9.97 however wanted a 9.93 to place within the closing.
Total, it was a superb Olympics for Crew GB
