Dutch relay women silver behind untouchable USA

The Dutch relay is for women ‘Best of the rest’ He won silver in the 4x400m relay. The American quartet was too strong for the other finalists from the first round. In the final, Femke Paul won the silver medal for the Netherlands.

Boll finished off the good work of Liege Klaver, Kathleen Pieterse and Lisanne de Witte in a new Dutch record: 3.19.50, more than four seconds behind the USA.

“Gold is unattainable today, so we can be happy with silver,” Peters concluded. It was the first medal for women at the Olympics for defending European and world champions the Netherlands.

A similar distance medley win last week gave the Netherlands athletics team plenty of confidence. But not everything went as expected in the individual songs. Claver missed out on a medal battle in the 400m after starting problems in the semi-finals.

Ball then competed with Sydney McLaughlin-Levron for gold in the 400m hurdles, but finished with bronze.

On the final evening of the Olympic Games at the Stade de France, Ball and McLaughlin-Levron met again, although the Olympic champion was the second American. McLaughlin-Levrone widened the gap to the others in impressive fashion, while Peters fought his way into the top three.

De Witte passed the baton to fourth-placed Bolton, who beat the British (bronze) and Irish in the battle for silver with his now characteristic final sprint.

“It’s very impressive how the league has bounced back,” Paul said after the third event, finishing the Games with a medal.

“It was very difficult at times,” Boll continued. “We saw her disappointed, after the semi-final (400m hurdles) Cathligin was disappointed, I was disappointed. It’s not always an easy game, but it’s very beautiful and great and we can all finish it this way. .”

Eveline Salberg and Myrte van der Skoot, who ran in place of hurdlers Peters and Boll, also took silver.

Among the men, the 4x400m gold went to the US after a stunning final round, which he won in 2.54.44. Botswana surprisingly took the initiative but was overtaken by the Americans.

200m Olympic champion Letzile Tepoko was Botswana’s finalist. However, the American quartet was the last to run with Olympic gold in his pocket: Raj Benjamin, who won the 400-meter hurdles final on Friday evening.

Benjamin waited until the finish and celebrated his second night in a row at the Stade de France. Behind Botswana, Great Britain took bronze.