The fastest leg in the world was shocked in the semi-final of 100m

Before leaving for Japan, Bromell was the fastest runner in the world in 2021, with a time of 9 seconds 77 in the US 100m race selection competition in Florida on June 5. The 26-year-old athlete is therefore the number one candidate for the Olympic gold medal in the king of athletics distance.

However, when entering the competition at Tokyo 2020, Bromell suddenly dropped in form when he only received tickets to the semi-finals with a record of 10 seconds 05 in the qualifying round. And on the semi-final run at the Olympic Stadium, Sapporo this afternoon of August 1, the runner born in 1995 only reached 10 seconds. This result made Brommel third in the run and 10th out of 24 athletes competing in the semi-finals. Only the nine highest achieving athletes entered the medal competition.

Bromell was once the first teen athlete to surpass the 10-second mark in the 100m distance, when he won the 2014 NCAA US student sports championship with a time of 9 seconds 97, when he was a freshman at Baylor University. Currently, 9 seconds 97 is still the record of teenage athletes.

Bromell injured an achilles sprain and had to race against time to return to Rio 2016. He recovered in time, but only finished eighth, finishing last in the 100m final. Bromell was then constantly tormented by injuries and only returned to his best form in 2021.

Also in the semi-finals on the afternoon of August 1, Su Bingtian became the first Asian athlete to reach the final of the 100m event in an Olympics after 89 years, when he set an Asian record with a time of 9 seconds 83. Asian legs The previous Asian in the Olympic final was Taka Yoshioka – the Japanese athlete who finished last in the 1932 Los Angeles final.

Two other championship candidates, Ronnie Baker (9 seconds 83) and Fred Kerley (9 seconds 96) also won tickets to the final. The remaining athletes competing for the 100m medal are Andre de Grasse – who won bronze in 2016, Akan Simbine, Zharnel Hughes and Enoch Adegoke.

In the final competition on the evening of August 1, Italian runner Lamont Marcell Jacobs finished first, winning a gold medal with 9 seconds 80.

In the men’s 100m, Usain Bolt still holds both the world record and the Olympic record. The Jamaican legend set the world record in August 2009 in Berlin with a time of 9 seconds 58, and set the Olympic record in London 2012 with a time of 9 seconds 63.

Hong Duy