Masai Russell Wins Olympic Gold in 100m Hurdles, Two Wildcats Win Gold in 4x400m Relay – UK Athletics

PARIS, France – On the ultimate day of observe and subject competitors on the Paris Olympic Video games, Kentucky Monitor and Area athletes received 4 medals, together with three gold, bringing the week’s total haul to a program-best six medals.

Masai Russell took residence the gold medal within the 100m hurdles in a dramatic picture end. In the identical occasion, Jasmine Camacho-Quinn, the gold medalist from Tokyo, secured the bronze. That is the second consecutive Olympics during which the gold medalist within the 100m hurdles has come from Kentucky, in addition to the second straight Olympics during which two Wildcats have completed on the rostrum in that occasion.

Within the ladies’s 4x400m relay, Wildcats made up fifty % of the gold medal-winning – and American record-setting – squad. Alexis Holmes earned her first profession Olympic medal, whereas Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone picked up her second gold of the Video games and fourth of her profession. The American workforce posted a time of three:15.27, the second quickest time in historical past and one-tenth of a second from the World Document. McLaughlin-Levrone ran the second leg of the race and gave the USA a lead they might by no means relinquish. Holmes ran the anchor leg and crossed the road over thirty meters earlier than the silver-medal successful Dutch workforce. Each McLaughlin-Levrone and Holmes received SEC titles within the 4x400m relay whereas at Kentucky. Holmes additionally received an NCAA title within the occasion in 2022.

Within the closing of the 100m hurdles, three of the eight runners on the road have been representatives of Kentucky Monitor and Area, but it surely was 2023 Kentucky graduate Masai Russell who reigned supreme. The primary time Olympian made an unbelievable lean on the end line to assert the gold medal in a time of 12.33 seconds, successful the occasion by one one-hundredth of a second. That is the second consecutive Video games during which the Olympic gold medalist within the 100m hurdles hailed from Kentucky, as Camacho-Quinn took residence the gold in Tokyo.

Russell, the collegiate report holder within the occasion, was racing in her first main worldwide closing within the 100m hurdles and was capable of prime the rostrum within the deepest subject within the occasion’s historical past. A four-time NCAA runner-up, Russell received the largest title of her profession—previous to her gold medal run– on the US Olympic Crew Trials in a world-leading time of 12.25, to safe the gold medalist her spot in Paris.

Successful the bronze medal within the 100m hurdles, Camacho-Quinn grew to become the primary Puerto Rican in Olympic historical past to win a number of medals. Including to her gold from Tokyo, the three-time NCAA champion throughout her time at Kentucky completed the race in 12.36 seconds to safe her spot on the rostrum. Nonetheless the Olympic report holder, Camacho-Quinn is now the second Wildcat to win a number of Olympic medals, becoming a member of former teammate Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone.

Additionally working within the 100m hurdles closing was Volunteer Assistant Coach Devynne Charlton, who completed in sixth place with a time of 12.56 seconds. The Bahamian athlete who trains in Lexington with Russell is the world report holder within the indoor 60m hurdles and repeated her sixth place end from Tokyo.

Kentucky Monitor and Area completed the Paris Olympics with six medals – 4 golds, one silver, and one bronze. The six medals is essentially the most in program historical past and tops the 5 medals received by Wildcats in Tokyo.

A full occasion recap of the Wildcats in Paris could be discovered beneath.

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