PARIS, CMC – Grenada’s Anderson Peters and Jamaica’s Rasheed Broadbell stood out on an otherwise bleak day for Caribbean athletes at the Paris Olympics.
Peters, the 2019 and 2022 world champion, copped bronze in the men’s javelin, with his effort measured at 88.54 meters.
He finished behind eventual winner Arshad Nadeem of Pakistan, who set a new Olympic record with a throw of 92.97 meters, and India’s Neeraj Chopra, who recorded a season-best throw of 89.45 to place second.
Trinidad and Tobago’s former Olympic champion, Keshorn Walcott (86.16) finished seventh.
In the evening’s final event, Broadbell, running out of Lane 5, overcame a slow start to finish third in the men’s 110-metre hurdles.
Broadbell, who at one point was languishing in fifth position, fought back over the last three hurdles to clock 13.09 seconds, the same time as Daniel Roberts of the USA, who was awarded the silver medal.
Jamaicans Orlando Bennett (13.34) and defending Olympic champion Hansle Parchment (13.39) finished seventh and eighth, respectively.
American Grant Holloway, who placed second in the 2020 Olympics, got off to a fast start and was not to be denied this time around, earning the gold medal with a time of 12.99 seconds.
In the women’s 400-metre hurdles finals, Jamaica’s Rushell Clayton (52.68) was fifth, and her teammate Shiann Salmon was sixth in 53.29 seconds.
The event was won in a world record time of 50.37 by American Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone.
Alexander Ogando of the Dominican Republic finished fifth in the men’s 200-meter final in 20,02 seconds, which Botswana’s Letsile Tebogo won in an area record 19.46 seconds.
In the women’s long jump final, Jamaican Ackelia Smith was eighth with a leap of 6.66 meters.
American Tara Davis-Woodhall took home the gold medal, jumping 7.10 meters, while Milaika Mihambo was second (6.98) and Jasmine Moore of the USA third (6.96).
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