Elijah Manangoi led a Kenyan finish in the 1, meters at the world championships. Manangoi beat teammate Timothy Cheruiyot for gold. Filip Ingebrigtsen of Norway took bronze. Three Kenyans were leading with two laps to go but three-time world champion Asbel Kiprop could not sustain the pace and fell back. Manangoi won in 3 minutes, Ingebrigtsen took third in Mutaz Essa Barshim of Qatar won the world high jump title with a perfect series of jumps, clearing 2. Majd Eddin Ghazal of Syria got bronze jumping 2.
Two-time Olympic champion Sandra Perkovic won the discus at the world championships with a throw of Stevens set a continental record with a throw of Melina Robert-Michon of France took bronze with a toss of She also won gold at the worlds in Moscow.
Caster Semenya won her third world title in the meters, using her finishing kick to sweep past the competition in the finishing straight and win with ease over Francine Niyonsaba of Burundi. Ajee Wilson took bronze and gave the United States its 28th medal of the championships, matching its all-time record.
Semenya won with a season-leading 1 minute, The South African beat Niyonsaba by. Wilson finished in Semenya won Olympic gold on the same track five years ago. Hellen Obiri of Kenya ran away from favorite Almaz Ayana with meters to go to win the 5,meter race at the world championships and deny the Ethiopian a long-distance double. Obiri got her final kick going and left Ayana behind, winning in 14 minutes, After shattering the opposition to win the 10,, Ayana could never shake her Kenyan opponent and finished 5.
Sifan Hassan of the Netherlands took bronze in The Colombian won the race in 1 hour, 18 minutes, 53 seconds. He beat year-old Sergei Shirobokov of Russia by only two seconds. Yang finished in a personal best 1 hour, 26 minutes, 18 seconds on the two-kilometer loop in central London, only 1 second ahead of Maria Guadalupe Gonzalez of Mexico.
Antonella Palmisano of Italy was third in Lyu Xiuzhi had been in line for bronze, but the Chinese walker was disqualified with about 50 meters to go. She has dual Brazilian-American citizenship. Thank you for choosing me and for being you, together with me. Barber, 27, a track and field star, is a onetime world champion in the pole vault, having reached a height of 5.
In , he became the youngest man to vault 6 meters, finishing 10th at the Summer Olympics in Rio. Officials accepted his testimony that he inadvertently absorbed the drug while kissing someone he met through a Craigslist ad. Woolley, who identifies as bisexual, came out when he was He said his friends and classmates never had a problem with his sexuality. In , Chand told reporters that she had been seeing her girlfriend, who comes from her village, Chaka Gopalpur, for five years.
There is no greater emotion than love, and it should not be denied. While she faced backlash back home — some of it from an older sister who threatened to send her to jail — Chand signed a two-year endorsement deal with Puma in Her attorneys successfully argued that the regulations were arbitrary and discriminatory, and Chand was reinstated in time to qualify for the meter dash at the Summer Olympics. Chand failed to medal in Rio, but she won silver in the meter dash at the Asian Games in Jakarta, Indonesia.
Rapinoe is one of the most famous women in sports, having led the U. Where you can just live. Rapinoe, 35, has never shied away from activism: She fiercely advocates for equal pay for women in sports and has taken a knee during the national anthem in solidarity with former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick and the Black Lives Matter movement.
If Rapinoe is the face of queer women at the Olympics, Daley has become the standard bearer for gay men. He went on to win European, Commonwealth and international titles, including bronze medals at the Summer Olympics in London and Rio. Daley, 27, hopes to take home the gold at Tokyo with his new synchronized diving partner, Matty Lee. Quinn, 25, a native of Toronto, made their debut with the Canadian national team in and helped Canada earn its second consecutive bronze medal at the Summer Olympics.
In June, Quinn posted a picture to Instagram holding a Spirit jersey with their number in the colors of the rainbow Pride flag. So this was my outlet. It was my safe space. While gay men are far less represented at the Olympics than lesbians — by a ratio of more than 10 to 1 — dressage is something of a safe space for out male athletes: In addition to Carl Hester, representing Great Britain, and Domien Michiels, riding for Belgium, longtime partners Edward Gal and Hans-Peter Minderhoud will compete for the Netherlands.
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