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🇳🇱 Sifan Hassan, triple #Tokyo2020 medallist!
After winning 5000m 🥇 and 1500m 🥉, @SifanHassan adds 10,000m 🥇 to her impressive #Olympics medal tally.
The Dutchwoman unleashes a lethal kick over the last lap to take the victory in 29:55.32.
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Real recognises real 👊
1500m 🥈 medallist 🇰🇪 @tim_cheruiyot gifts #Olympics champion 🇳🇴 Jakob Ingebrigtsen his bracelet.
Cheruiyot has won 12 out of 13 of the pair's career clashes to date – but Ingebrigtsen finally beats the great Kenyan to land the @Olympics 1500m title.
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IT'S JAVELIN GOLD FOR INDIA 🇮🇳
@Neeraj_chopra1 is the #Tokyo2020 javelin champion with 87.58m!
He becomes the first Indian athlete in history to win an #Olympics title in #athletics
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An historic #Olympics javelin final for Asia! 🌏
🇮🇳@Neeraj_chopra1 wins India's first ever athletics gold, while Pakistan's 🇵🇰 Arshad Nadeem not only becomes the country's first ever @Olympics finalist in #athletics, but also secures a remarkable 5️⃣th place with 84.62m.
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🥇 for the United States of America! 🇺🇸
The US quartet dominates the women's 4x400m in 3:16.85 – the fifth fastest time in history – and are the #Tokyo2020 champions.
Their unofficial splits are unreal 🤯
@GoSydGo 49.96
@allysonfelix 49.58
Dalilah Muhammad 48.97
@athiiing 48.34
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DOUBLE 🇺🇸 4x400M GOLD!
@MCJR__ – @Mike_Norman22 – @Brose_royce – @_Kingben_ are the #Olympics gold medallists with 2:55.70 🥇 and close #athletics action on the track.
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Mariya Lasitskene gets her first #Olympics gold! 👏
The world champion clears a world-leading 2.04m to take the #Tokyo2020 high jump crown 👑
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In 2005, at the age of nine, 🇦🇺 @NMcDermott201 wrote a poem about her high jump dream of going to the #Olympics
Tonight, she cleared a personal best, set an Oceanian record of 2.02m and became an Olympic 🥈 medallist.
Never stop dreaming ✨
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🇺🇸 @allysonfelix wins her 1️⃣1️⃣th #Olympics medal!
Athens 2004 – 200🥈
Beijing 2008 – 200🥈
Beijing 2008 – 4x400🥇
London 2012 – 200🥇
London 2012 – 4x100🥇
London 2012 – 4x400🥇
Rio 2016 – 400🥈
Rio 2016 – 4x100🥇
Rio 2016 – 4x400🥇
#Tokyo2020 – 400🥉
#Tokyo2020 – 4x400🥇
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Historic podium in the men's 4x400m.
🥇🇺🇸2:55.70
🥈🇳🇱2:57.18 National record
🥉🇧🇼2:57.27 African record
Neither the Netherlands, nor Botswana have ever won a medal in an #Olympics 4x400m.
At #Tokyo2020 they delivered in style.
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One giant throw for man, one even more giant leap for India 🥇🇮🇳
Earlier today, @Neeraj_chopra1 🇮🇳 became the very first Indian athlete to win an #Olympics title in #athletics
History 💫
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One more 🥇 for the 🐐?
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👑🥇 𝙆𝙄𝙉𝙂-CHOGE 🥇👑
@EliudKipchoge 🇰🇪 defends his Rio title to claim a beautiful win in the #Olympics men's marathon in 2:08:38!
#Tokyo2020
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The final medals of #athletics at #Tokyo2020 are decided!
🥇 @EliudKipchoge 🇰🇪
🥈 Abdi Nageeye 🇳🇱
🥉 @BashirAbdi7 🇧🇪
Kipchoge's 1:20 winning margin is the biggest victory margin in an #Olympics marathon since 1972.
An extraordinary end to an extraordinary Olympic Games.
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Hang it in the Louvre 🖼
🇯🇲 @FastElaine's performance in #Tokyo2020 = a work of art 🥇🥇🥇
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The final two 🥇 of #Tokyo2020 go to Kenya🇰🇪
It's the first time in history at an #Olympics Summer Games that a ceremony takes place for both a men's and a women's event during the #ClosingCeremony
Peres Jepchirchir, @EliudKipchoge & medallists get the biggest 👏 of the Games!
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Thank you for the smiles😊, the tears 🥲 and the memories, Tokyo 🇯🇵
#Tokyo2020
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Abebe Bikila was a running legend, but few outside of Ethiopia were aware that he was his country's second-best runner in the build-up to the Rome Olympics.
The story of Wami Biratu, the grandfather of Ethiopian distance running 🇪🇹
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It's quite rare to find identical twins performing at an international level in the same events in athletics.
The Clayton twins – Tia and Tina – have embarked on a potentially remarkable journey and will compete for Jamaica 🇯🇲 at the #WAU20Nairobi21 👇
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🥇 Olympics (4x100m)
🥇🥇 World U20 Championships (100m, 200m)
⚡ @brianastarr21 ⚡
Throwback to when, at age 16, Jamaica's 🇯🇲 sensation claimed the double gold in Tampere 👇
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Where it all began for @Neeraj_chopra1 🇮🇳
From world U20 champion to Olympic champion 🥇
#Tokyo2020
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12 years to the day and it still doesn't get old.
9.58 | @usainbolt | 🐐
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Namibia's @BeaMasilingi tops the 100m heats with a national U20 record 11.20 👏🇳🇦
The other leading qualifiers for tonight's #WorldAthleticsU20 semi-finals are:
Tina Clayton 🇯🇲11.50
Camille Rutherford 🇧🇸 11.59
Tima Seikeseye Godbless🇳🇬 11.59
Praise Ofoku 🇳🇬 11.65
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Sprint nation Botswana 🇧🇼
Letsile Tebogo is the fastest 100m qualifier in the heats in a national U20 record 10.22.
In the men's 400m Anthony Pesela wins his heat in 45.88 – a personal best and the second fastest qualifying time for Friday's #WorldAthleticsU20 semi-final.
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