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Andre de Grasse of Canada won Olympic gold in the men’s 200 meters five years after finishing second behind Usain Bolt, ending a string of close calls for the 26-year-old.
De Grasse won in a national record time of 19.62 seconds, pushing back two Americans for the medals.
Kenneth Bednarek won silver with a personal best 19.68 seconds, and 2019 world champion and race favorite Noah Lyles took bronze in 19.74. Erriyon Knighton, the youngest member of the U.S. men’s track team at 17, was fourth in 19.93.
De Grasse has now filled a collection of medals that was only missing a gold medal. He won bronze four nights earlier in the 100 meters to go with the third place he won in Rio de Janeiro. He also won a silver in the 200m in Rio, when he challenged Bolt in the semifinals – pulling a mischievous finger – before being blown away by the Jamaican champion in the final.
In other medal races at the Olympic Stadium, Emmanuel Korir won gold and led a Kenyan double in the 800 meters and Peruth Chemutai of Uganda chased American Courtney Frerichs to win gold in the women’s 3,000-meter steeplechase .
Korir pushed his way past Australia’s Peter Bol on the final corner and jumped up to win in 1: 45.06. It was Kenya’s fourth consecutive victory in the 800m at the Olympics.
Teammate Ferguson Rotich won silver with a late kick to overtake Poland’s Patryk Dobek, who retained bronze ahead of Bol.
World record holder David Rudisha has won the previous two Olympic gold medals in the 800m, but has not made the Kenya squad this year due to long-term injury issues. Clayton Murphy of the United States, a 2016 bronze medalist, was last.
In the steeplechase, Chemutai took a step on the last lap before setting off for the win. She set a national record with her time of 9: 01.45.
Frerichs came out of the field with about 2½ laps to go, then held on after being caught by Chemutai for the money. Hyvin Kiyeng of Kenya was third.
Emma Coburn of the United States was disqualified for what was listed as a lane violation after finishing behind the field. She won bronze at the Rio de Janeiro Games in 2016.
Poland’s Wojciech Nowicki ultimately won a gold medal after winning the men’s hammer throw.
Nowicki, 32, led from the first lap and improved on each of his first three attempts to reach a personal best of 82.52 meters, the winning mark.
He was a bronze medalist at the 2016 Olympics and won bronze medals at three world championships.
Eivind Henriksen of Norway set a national record with a throw of 81.58 meters in the fifth round and finished with the silver medal. Four-time world champion Pawel Fajdek of Poland took bronze with a score of 81.53.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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