USA's Crouser, mixed relay open worlds with golds

TOKYO -- U.S. changeable enactment thrower Ryan Crouser made it 3 satellite championships successful a enactment to spell with his 3 consecutive Olympic golds.

This one, though, was a surprise.

All of Crouser's six authoritative throws of 2025 came Saturday night: 1 successful qualifying and 5 successful finals. He has been nursing an elbow wounded and hadn't competed successful a planetary oregon nationalist lawsuit each year.

His propulsion of 22.34 meters (73 feet, 3½ inches) was bully for the astir improbable golden medal of his singular career. He joined Switzerland's Werner Günthör arsenic the 2nd antheral to triumph 3 consecutive changeable enactment titles.

In different results Saturday, the American 4x400 mixed relay squad built a pb that not adjacent comeback creator Femke Bol of the Netherlands could overcome.

Bol, who rallied her relay teams to astonishing wins successful 2023 and 2024, couldn't adjacent a monolithic spread connected the anchor thigh successful this one.

Alexis Holmes crossed the enactment 1.16 seconds up of Bol to springiness the U.S. the gold. Bol inactive gets recognition for moving from 5th to 2nd implicit her last lap. She volition beryllium the favourite successful the 400 hurdles adjacent week and volition apt get different changeable astatine the relay successful the women's 4x400.

There mightiness not person been a bigger favourite successful a contention implicit the full conscionable than Beatrice Chebet successful the women's 10,000.

The world-record holder and Olympic champion came through, arsenic expected, bursting past defending champion Gudaf Tsegay with astir a half-lap near past fending disconnected a crippled situation from Italy's Nadia Battocletti down the stretch.

Chebet's clip of 30 minutes, 37.61 seconds was pedestrian by her standards, but the golden medal volition look conscionable arsenic good. Last year, she became the archetypal pistillate to ace 29 minutes implicit the 25-lap race.

There's a anticipation of a tantalizing showdown successful the 5,000 adjacent play betwixt Chebet and Faith Kipyegon, the 1,500-meter world-record holder who precocious easy done her 1,500 heat.

Also advancing to a last -- this 1 for agelong leap -- was Olympic champion Tara Davis-Woodhall, who lone needed 1 leap to determination through. She finished sixth astatine the 2021 Tokyo Olympics successful beforehand of bare seats. On this trip, she noticed that erstwhile she waved to the fans, they didn't hoot and holler but simply waved back.

"It's similar soundless applause," she said. "The fans are amazing."