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American Masai Russell wins gold in 100 meter hurdle by a hundredth of a second : NPR
Masai Russell, of the US, wins the ladies’s 100-meter hurdles remaining on the 2024 Summer time Olympics, Saturday, Aug. 10, 2024, in Saint-Denis, France. (AP Picture/Petr David Josek)
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SAINT-DENIS, France — Masai Russell bolted down the observe, legs scissoring gracefully as she cleared the ten hurdles that separated her from the end line.
The 24-year-old from Maryland lunged throughout a fraction of a second forward of French hurdler Cyrena Samba-Mayela. Her margin of victory? One one-hundredth of a second.
There was a second’s delay whereas the photograph end was analyzed and Russell leapt within the air when her gold-medal win was confirmed. Jasmine Camacho-Quinn of Puerto Rico took bronze on the Olympics.
The win bookends a dominant exhibiting for U.S. girls hurdlers in Paris. On Thursday, Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone smashed her personal world document profitable gold within the girls’s 400-meter remaining.