Jamaica's Elaine Thompson-Herah Wins 200m Gold - Pulls Off Double Double

Source: Jamaica's Elaine Thompson-Herah wins 200m gold to complete second straight Olympic sweep (link)

Elaine Thompson-Herah won the gold medal in the women's 200-meter race in 21.53 seconds on Tuesday in Tokyo, the second-fastest time in history behind only Florence Griffith-Joyner's 21.34. With this gold, the 29-year-old Jamaican completes a sweep of the 100 and 200 for the second straight Olympics, the first woman to ever do it twice. In the 100, she also set the Olympic record with her time of 10.61, beating Florence Griffith-Joyner's time of 10.62, set in 1988, by 0.01 seconds. Flo-Jo is now the only woman in history to run faster than Elaine Thompson.

Meanwhile, Namibia's Christine Mboma took the silver medal in 21.81, while the United States' Gabby Thomas earned bronze at 21.87. Thomas in particular edged out Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce at the line to medal. The Harvard graduate was another gold medal favorite, who grabbed the attention of the world when she ran a 21.61 at the US Trials back in June, which at the time was second-fastest time in women's 200 history. Of course, that mark would soon be surpassed by Thompson-Herah's performance in this gold medal race, which surpassed the Thomas's PB by almost a tenth of a second.