TORCH TALK DAY 5: COLE HOCKER WINS 1500M OLYMPIC GOLD OVER JOSH KERR, JAKOB INGEBRIGTSEN; GABBY THOMAS DOMINATES THE 200M FINAL | LIVE FROM PARIS
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🗓️ 6 August 2024
⏱️ 99 minutes
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Summary
Day five of track and field at the Paris Olympics may have been the most electric day yet! We saw an epic finish in the men’s 1500m with Cole Hocker taking the victory and Jakob Ingebrigtsen falling short of the podium. Meanwhile, Gabby Thomas won her first-ever Olympic title in the 200m. In tonight’s edition of Torch talk, we break down all of today’s excitement, including…
– Cole Hocker delivered an outstanding performance, winning gold with an Olympic record of 3:27.65. Josh Kerr took silver with 3:27.79, and Yared Nuguse won bronze with 3:27.80.
– Gabby Thomas clinched gold in a time of 21.83. She improved upon her bronze medal from the 2021 Tokyo Olympics to secure the win. Julien Alfred, the 100m gold medalist, finished strongly for silver in 22.08, while Brittney Brown took bronze in 22.20.
– Windred Mutile Yavi set an Olympic record with a gold-winning time of 8:52.76. Peruth Chemutai captured silver with 8:53.34, and Faith Cherotich earned bronze with 8:55.15.
– In the men’s long jump, Greece’s Miltiadis Tentoglou won gold with an 8.48-meter jump. Wayne Pinnock secured silver with 8.36 meters, and Mattia Furlani took bronze with 8.34 meters.
– In the women’s hammer throw, Canada’s Camryn Rogers won gold with a throw of 76.97m. Annette Echikunwoke from the USA earned silver with 75.48m, while Zhao Jie claimed bronze with a throw of 74.27m.
– In the men’s 400m, USA successfully advanced all three athletes – Quincy Hall, Michael Norman, and Christopher Bailey —to the final.
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| 0:00.0 | All right, Citius Mag, live from Paris. |
| 0:15.0 | Torch Talk is about to begin, presented by A6. And we have had an amazing night of Shag and Beale. |
| 0:26.0 | I think this one was the best one yet. |
| 0:29.0 | It's one that has been circled on people's calendars |
| 0:31.2 | for many months now as we had the men's |
| 0:34.7 | 1500 meter final with the women's 200 meter final what else we had we had |
| 0:39.8 | women's steeple chase we Women's steeple chase. |
| 0:43.0 | We had the men's long jump and the women's hammer throw. |
| 0:46.6 | So this one from 7 o'clock when it started all the way till what, 10 p.m. or something like that it was just banger after banger and the |
| 0:55.2 | cool part was like the metal ceremonies for some of the previous stuff you got to see a lot of these |
| 0:58.8 | stars and remember what happened last night so we are on 10 right now we have a lot of our team here we have more |
| 1:07.0 | people coming over from the stadium but overall I think the best night yet and we're going to kick things off by talking |
| 1:14.8 | about the women's 200 meters which is how we closed off the day it was Gabby Thomas |
| 1:21.4 | is crowning moment. |
| 1:23.9 | For someone who was bronze three years ago, |
| 1:26.8 | injured in 2022, had to miss that world championships |
| 1:30.0 | and then be so close to gold last year behind the one and only |
| 1:33.6 | Shureka Jackson. |
| 1:35.2 | Gabby entered this day as the favorite and totally |
| 1:39.1 | dominated this field. |
| 1:40.3 | She was 2183 for the win. |
| 1:42.2 | Right behind her, Julian Alfred 2208 to add another Olympic medal to her collection and then Brittany Brown someone who has been counted out many times is like, |
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