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Birmingham — Jamaica Sprint Queen's Elaine Thompson-Heller won the 200m and Uganda's Jacob Kiprimo won the men's 5,000m, completing the contrasting Commonwealth Games Golden Doubles at Alexander Stadium on Saturday. After she won gold in the 100 m on Wednesday, Thompson-Heller beat Nigeria's Faber her Ofili and Namibia's Kristin her Mboma by 22.02 seconds in a game record time. Easy home again.
These two gold medals are Thompson-Heller's first individual medals at his Commonwealth Games, but the 30-year-old won his double in the 100/200 m sprint at the Olympics. I have achieved it twice.
Kiprimo said Tuesday that he was using his late kicks to drive two Kenyans to the line in the 10,000 m, but in the 5,000 m he was slammed. The 21-year-old held his stretch well at home. He saw off yet another double Kenyan threat as he recorded a winning time of 13 minutes and 8.08 seconds.
Again the Kenyans were left to collect the booty, with Nicholas Kimeri for silver and Jacob Cropp for bronze.
Joshua Cheptegei won gold in his 5,000 m and 10,000 m doubles held on his coast, for the second time in a row Uganda swept his two distance events.
Thompson-Heller and Kiprimo won his double gold medal, but after Alastair Chalmers won bronze in the men's 400m hurdles, the first track and field medal for tiny Guernsey. Their joy was muted compared to the exhilaration of A week after he contracted COVID-19.
Kyron McMaster of the British Virgin Islands defended his 400 m hurdles title 48.93 seconds faster than Jamaica's Jaheel Hyde. Finish He might have thought it was Chalmers who won the gold medal in the area.
"When I came here, I thought I could make history on my little island," Chalmers said. ``I'm proud to be from Guernsey.
``It's going to be a great celebration.
Another race of hers on the night was the women's 800 m, with Kenya's Mary Moller winning gold from behind the pack, so if not the winner the local crowd favored. It brought a lot of drama. Keeley Hodgkinson of England.
Moller roared with her winning time of 1:57.07 as she was 40 meters from the line, placing world and Olympic silver medalist Hodgkinson in her second place again. calmed me down.
Scotland's Laura Muir crossed the line to take her bronze medal 0.01 seconds ahead of Jamaica's Natya Gool.
"There are positives, but I'm still upset because those (medals) are not gold yet," Hodgkinson said.
'I'm disappointed.'
Jamaica go home 1-2 in the women's 400m hurdles. Back, Janie Blassell defended the Commonwealth crown ahead of Cyan Salmon.
Other gold medal winners included Trinidad and Tobago's Jeremy Richards, who won the men's 200m, Australia's Curtis Marshall, who won the pole vault, and Canada's Camryn Rogers, who won the women's hammer throw. . (Reporting by Steve Keating in his Birmingham; Editing by Hugh Lawson and Christian Radnedge)
