- American surges to gold in time of 21.83sec
- Asher‑Smith takes fourth with Neita fifth
Out in front Gabby Thomas was already raising her hands to her head, overcome with the realisation that she had just this very moment become the Olympic 200m champion.
A couple of strides behind her, the new 100m champion Julien Alfred was striding smoothly through the line in second place, and there just a little further back still, came Dina Asher‑Smith, Daryll Neita, and the USA’s Brittany Brown, shoulder‑to‑shoulder-to-shoulder in lanes 4, 5, and 6, with just the three‑hundredths of a second between them. All three of them were struggling with everything they had for that last extra millimetre that would win them the bronze. It was Brown who got it.
Written by Andy Bull at the Stade de France
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