Masai Russell Wins Olympic Gold in 100m Hurdles, Two Wildcats Win Gold in 4x400m Relay – UK Athletics

PARIS, France – On the ultimate day of observe and discipline competitors on the Paris Olympic Video games, Kentucky Monitor and Discipline athletes gained 4 medals, together with three gold, bringing the week’s total haul to a program-best six medals.

Masai Russell took residence the gold medal within the 100m hurdles in a dramatic photograph end. In the identical occasion, Jasmine Camacho-Quinn, the gold medalist from Tokyo, secured the bronze. That is the second consecutive Olympics through which the gold medalist within the 100m hurdles has come from Kentucky, in addition to the second straight Olympics through which two Wildcats have completed on the rostrum in that occasion.

Within the ladies’s 4x400m relay, Wildcats made up fifty % of the gold medal-winning – and American record-setting – squad. Alexis Holmes earned her first profession Olympic medal, whereas Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone picked up her second gold of the Video games and fourth of her profession. The American workforce posted a time of three:15.27, the second quickest time in historical past and one-tenth of a second from the World Document. McLaughlin-Levrone ran the second leg of the race and gave the USA a lead they might by no means relinquish. Holmes ran the anchor leg and crossed the road over thirty meters earlier than the silver-medal successful Dutch workforce. Each McLaughlin-Levrone and Holmes gained SEC titles within the 4x400m relay whereas at Kentucky. Holmes additionally gained an NCAA title within the occasion in 2022.

Within the remaining of the 100m hurdles, three of the eight runners on the road have been representatives of Kentucky Monitor and Discipline, but it surely was 2023 Kentucky graduate Masai Russell who reigned supreme. The primary time Olympian made an unbelievable lean on the end line to assert the gold medal in a time of 12.33 seconds, successful the occasion by one one-hundredth of a second. That is the second consecutive Video games through which the Olympic gold medalist within the 100m hurdles hailed from Kentucky, as Camacho-Quinn took residence the gold in Tokyo.

Russell, the collegiate document holder within the occasion, was racing in her first main worldwide remaining within the 100m hurdles and was capable of high the rostrum within the deepest discipline within the occasion’s historical past. A four-time NCAA runner-up, Russell gained the largest title of her profession—previous to her gold medal run– on the US Olympic Staff Trials in a world-leading time of 12.25, to safe the gold medalist her spot in Paris.

Successful the bronze medal within the 100m hurdles, Camacho-Quinn turned the primary Puerto Rican in Olympic historical past to win a number of medals. Including to her gold from Tokyo, the three-time NCAA champion throughout her time at Kentucky completed the race in 12.36 seconds to safe her spot on the rostrum. Nonetheless the Olympic document holder, Camacho-Quinn is now the second Wildcat to win a number of Olympic medals, becoming a member of former teammate Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone.

Additionally working within the 100m hurdles remaining was Volunteer Assistant Coach Devynne Charlton, who completed in sixth place with a time of 12.56 seconds. The Bahamian athlete who trains in Lexington with Russell is the world document holder within the indoor 60m hurdles and repeated her sixth place end from Tokyo.

Kentucky Monitor and Discipline completed the Paris Olympics with six medals – 4 golds, one silver, and one bronze. The six medals is probably the most in program historical past and tops the 5 medals gained by Wildcats in Tokyo.

A full occasion recap of the Wildcats in Paris might be discovered beneath.

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