Portugal’s Pedro Pichardo received the boys’s triple bounce on the Tokyo Video games on Thursday with a leap of 17.98 metres, giving his nation its fifth Olympic gold medal.
China’s Zhu Yaming produced a private better of 17.57m for silver and Hugues Fabrice Zango delivered Burkina Faso’s first Olympic medal after leaping 17.47m to take bronze.
Burkina Faso is the a centesimal nation to win an Olympic athletics medal.
Pichardo took the lead together with his first try of 17.61m and no different competitor might match it. His 17.98m bounce got here on his third try and set a nationwide report.
It was additionally the second-longest profitable bounce at an Olympics after American Kenny Harrison’s report leap of 18.09m on the 1996 Video games.
Zhu, after leaping to his private finest together with his fifth try, had one final probability to win gold. He positioned a finger to his temple and took a deep breath earlier than charging down the runway however got here up effectively brief.
American Will Claye, who completed second in London and Rio behind compatriot Christian Taylor, completed fourth. Taylor was unable to defend his title in Tokyo after struggling an Achilles harm in Could.
Claye, who additionally completed second on the 2017 and 2019 World Championships, shouted to himself “Give me extra!” after a season’s finest 17.44m third try pushed him into second place, earlier than slipping out of medal rivalry. Reuters
