♦ First 100 metres gold goes to Italy first time in Olympics history. It’s also their first podium in 100 metres.
♦ Newly crowned 100m Olympic champion Lamont Marcell Jacobs, arrive Tokyo with 9.95, progressed to gold throughout sensational way: 9.94 NR in heats, 9.84 AR in semis, 9.80 AR in final.
♦ One of the greatest high jumpers of all-times, Mutaz Essa Barshim finally brought a gold medal in Olympics. It’s also first Olympic glory in athletics for his native, Qatar.
♦ Belarussian Maksim Nedasekau took bronze medal in high jump with 2.37, highest ever clearence in Olympics for taking bronze.
♦ Bingtian Su became just second ever Asian to contest in final with a sensational Asian record (9.81), but finished sixth in final (9.98)
♦ Yulimar Rojas, outstanding Venezuelan, easily win her eluded triple jump Olympic title, most importantly she renewed 26-year old world record by 17 centimetres.
♦ Patricia Mamona and Ana Peleteiro, both are breaks sensational national records but still 66 and 80 centimetres gap with leading performance, respectively.
♦ Valerie Adams of NZ contested her fifth Olympic final and grabbed fourth medal, a bronze.
♦ Season leader Puerto Rican Jasmine Camacho-Quinn clocked 12.26 in 100H semi final, only 0.06 off from World record.
♦ Karsten Warholm and Rai Benjamin, two of three fastest men in 400H history, race and through to final together from same semi final heat. Brazilian Alison dos Santos renewed his South American record by 0.02 in other semis (47.31).
