Olympics-Athletics-Crouser sets shot record, Parchment beats hurdles world champion

TOKYO : American Ryan Crouser took the men's shot put gold medal on Thursday, breaking his own Olympic record in the final, while Jamaica's Hansle Parchment shocked the world champion to win the 110 metres hurdles and Portugal's Pedro Pichardo won the triple jump.

Parchment delivered one of the biggest shocks in the Tokyo athletics when he defeated world champion Grant Holloway in the hurdles. Pichardo won the men's triple jump, securing his country's fifth Olympic gold medal of all time, while Fabrice Zango of Burkina Faso made history by winning bronze, the country's first Olympic medal.

The result prompted Carl Lewis, who helped the U.S. to win two Olympic and three world sprint relay golds, to call the performance an"embarrassment" in a tweet https://twitter.com/Carl_Lewis/status/1423114725802614785?s=20. Britain's Dina Asher-Smith recovered from her hamstring strain and helped to secure a national record of 41.55 seconds and a place in the women's 4x100 metres relay final as the fastest qualifiers.

Defending Olympic champion Nafi Thiam seized control of the heptathlon with the day's best performance in the javelin and long jump, leaving the Belgian with just the final discipline of the 800 metres to negotiate to claim victory.

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