First shot put gold in 1996! Yemisi Ogunleye surprisingly threw the best distance in Paris: the 25-year-old from Mannheim threw 20 meters.
Shot putter Yemisi Ogunleye from Mannheim has sensationally won gold at the Olympic Games in Paris. The 25-year-old managed 20.00 metres in her last attempt at the Stade de France. The second place finisher at the World Indoor Championships and third place finisher at the European Championships thus secured the German athletics team’s first gold at these games.
Second German in ninth place
Silver went to New Zealander Maddison-Lee Wesche with 19.86 meters, while Song Jiayun from China took bronze with 19.32 meters. Alina Kenzel from Stuttgart took ninth place with 18.29 meters, while Katharina Maisch was eliminated in the qualification.
For the German athletics team, it is the fourth medal at the Paris Games. This means that the association’s target has even been exceeded. Decathlete Leo Neugebauer and long jumper Malaika Mihambo each won silver, and the women’s sprint relay team took bronze shortly before Ogunleye’s gold coup in the 4×100 meters.
Yemisi Ogunleye slipped and landed on her knee
The shower that fell during the relay race had made the shot put ring slippery. Ogunleye, who was doing the spin put, slipped on her first attempt and hit her knee, but had then adjusted to the conditions in the evening sun.
With her second attempt at 19.55 meters, she catapulted herself into second place. With her fifth attempt, Ogunleye briefly took the lead, but Wesche immediately countered. But with her last attempt, Ogunleye managed to create a sensation.
Source: Stern
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