{"id":486050,"date":"2024-08-06T16:20:57","date_gmt":"2024-08-06T20:20:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=486050"},"modified":"2024-08-06T16:21:38","modified_gmt":"2024-08-06T20:21:38","slug":"american-gabby-thomas-wins-200m-title","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/american-gabby-thomas-wins-200m-title\/","title":{"rendered":"American Gabby Thomas wins 200m title in Paris"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gabby Thomas secured the gold medal at the 200 meters sprint as the American was the favorite for the 1<sup>st<\/sup> place after the pre-tournament withdrawal of Jamaica&#8217;s world champ Shericka Jackson. The American finished in 21.83 seconds.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Imagine graduating from Harvard at 22 and winning an Olympic gold medal at 27.<\/p>\n<p>Gabby Thomas, you are legendary my friend. Legendary! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/itsgabbyt?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@itsgabbyt<\/a> \ud83d\udd25\ud83d\udd25\ud83d\udd25 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2TK8oI2yf3\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/2TK8oI2yf3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Emmanuel Acho (@EmmanuelAcho) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EmmanuelAcho\/status\/1820909438682751347?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">August 6, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Julien Alfred from Saint Lucia got the silver medal (22.08) as another American sprinter Brittany Brown won the bronze medal.<\/p>\n<p>Great Britain&#8217;s Dina Asher-Smith and Daryll Neita finished within 3-hundredths of a second of making the podium at the 200m sprint as neither of them was able to become the 1<sup>st<\/sup> British woman to make an Olympic sprint podium for 64 years.<\/p>\n<p>Julien Alfred, who finished 2<sup>nd<\/sup>, triumphed with the gold medal at the 100m but failed to make a double as Gabby was too fast for her at the longer distance.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">GABBY GETS GOLD! \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8\ud83e\udd47<\/p>\n<p>Tokyo bronze medalist Gabby Thomas upgrades her hardware in the women&#39;s 200m in Paris as she runs away with the gold in 21.83 (-0.6),<\/p>\n<p>100m gold medalist Julien Alfred \ud83c\uddf1\ud83c\udde8 earns another medal, taking silver in 22.08, and Brittany Brown \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 joins Thomas on the\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/wpIxlmO8BL\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/wpIxlmO8BL<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; FloTrack (@FloTrack) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FloTrack\/status\/1820909079138857316?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">August 6, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gabby Thomas secured the gold medal at the 200 meters sprint as the American was the favorite for the 1st place after the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":486051,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[18356],"news_category":[20292,14084],"gn_keywords":[18357,23266,23265],"acf":{"announce":"The U.S. sprinter left no chance to the competition at the final.","video":["video"]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/486050"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=486050"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/486050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":486054,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/486050\/revisions\/486054"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/486051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486050"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=486050"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=486050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}