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Texas’ Tara Davis-Woodhall takes gold in Olympic women’s long jump final
Tara Davis-Woodhall is the Olympic champion in girls’s lengthy bounce.
The previous Texas observe star unleashed an enormous leap within the lengthy bounce finals Thursday with a bounce of seven.10 meters.
Her 6.90 to steer qualifying Tuesday was solely .01 behind the bounce that gained her silver on the worlds final yr and higher than the 6.84 that positioned her sixth in Tokyo.
“I didn’t count on to be in Tokyo,” Davis-Woodhall stated Tuesday. “I used to be a university child, identical to, on the market leaping for enjoyable. I’m nonetheless leaping for enjoyable, however now I’m leaping for a motive.”
Fellow American jumper Jasmine Moore of Grand Prairie gained bronze with a bounce of 6.96 meters after profitable bronze within the triple bounce on Saturday.
Pictures: Jasmine Moore, Tara Davis-Woodhall get lengthy bounce Olympic bronze and gold in large evening for U.S. observe in Paris
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