Mu led as the field broke from their lanes into the backstretch. She set a strong but not crazy-fast pace, covering the first lap in 57.82, with the rest of the field in close pursuit. Mu opened a slightly larger lead with less than 300 meters to go, but still ran controlled.Only in the final straight did she clearly pull away. Mu ran the second lap in 57.39, slightly faster than the first lap, which is a rarity in a non-tactical world-class 800.
Behind Mu, places shifted quickly, as Britain’s Jemma Reekie, who was second with 100 meters to go, tied up in the final 30 meters, while Hodgkinson surged into second. Rogers was next to last coming off the final turn, but moved to the outside and managed to inch past Reekie to claim third place. Rogers used a similarly stellar final 100 meters to win the silver medal at the 2019 World Championships.
Mu and Rogers produced the best U.S. finish ever in a women’s Olympic 800. Besides Manning Mims, the only other American woman to medal in the Games before today was Kim Gallagher, who won silver in 1984 and bronze in 1988. Counting women’s and men’s races, today’s two medals was the best American showing since three U.S. men swept the podium in the 1912 Games.Mu’s win is all the more impressive given that this was her first open international competition.
Mu grew up in Trenton, New Jersey, and she’s one of seven children. Her parents immigrated to the United States from Sudan before Mu was born.
She will break the World Record in the near future
Congratulations on getting that thing!!!!
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