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  1. American Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone produced one of the great performances in Athletics history at Stade de France in Paris to retain the Olympic Women's 400m Hurdles title in a world record 50.37, 1.5 seconds clear of second-placed Anna Cockrell with Dutchwoman Femke Bol third.
    Botswana's Letsile Tebogo claimed a surprise Men's Olympic 200m Gold in 19.46 seconds, with Covid-affected 100m winner Noah Lyles leaving the track in a wheelchair after taking Bronze and Pakistan's Arshad Nadeem won his country's first ever Athletics medal, winning the Men's Javelin.
    Elsewhere on day 13, Netherlands' Sharon van Rouwendaal won the Women's Marathon Swim in the River Seine for her second Olympic title after winning at Rio 2016, the Dutch men's Hokcey team beat Germany after extra time to win Gold, Indonesia's Veddriq Leonardo won the men's Speed Climbing, China completed a clean sweep of all six Diving Golds when Xie Siyi won the Men's 3m Springboard.

  2. American Quincy Hall got up in the final strides to deny 2024 world leader Matt Hudson-Smith of Great Britain in an epic Olympic Men's 400m final at Stade de France in Paris. Jamaica's Roje Stoma won Men's Discus Gold and Morocco's Soufiane El Bakkali was the victor in the men's 3000m Steeplechase.
    Elsewhere on day 12, The inaugural Marathon Race Walk Mixed Relay was won by Spain, the Women's Speed Climbing was claimed by Poland's Aleksandra Miroslaw,China won the Artistic Swimming Team Acrobatic crown and Panipak Wongpattamakit earned Thailand's first Gold fo the Games in the Women's 48kg Taekwondo.