United States's Kerron Clement finally became an Olympic 400m hurdles champion by taking gold in Rio.
The 30-year-old clocked 47.73 seconds to streak away from Kenya's Boniface Mucheru, who took silver, with Turkey's Yasmani Copello winning bronze.
United States's Kerron Clement finally became an Olympic 400m hurdles champion by taking gold in Rio.
The 30-year-old clocked 47.73 seconds to streak away from Kenya's Boniface Mucheru, who took silver, with Turkey's Yasmani Copello winning bronze.
Alistair Brownlee retained his Olympic men's triathlon title to win Britain's 20th gold medal of the Rio Games, with brother Jonny claiming the silver.
Alistair, 28, pulled away from 26-year-old Jonny around halfway through the 10k run in sweltering conditions.
Defending champions United States will get a second chance to make the women's Olympic 4x100m relay final.
They dropped the baton in the heats but were obstructed and must now beat the time set by eighth-fastest China when they run again at 00:00 BST.
Jamaica’s Elaine Thompson bucked the trend on a huge night for United States women athletes as she became the first woman since Florence Griffith-Joyner at Seoul in 1988 to win the sprint double at the Olympics, winning the 200 metres in 21.78sec after holding off the world champion Dafne Schippers of The Netherlands, who clocked 21.88.
International Olympic Committee (IOC) Executive Board member Patrick Hickey has been formally charged by Brazilian police today following his arrest in connection with the alleged ticketing scandal involving Ireland here at Rio 2016.