Bahamian holds off Allyson Felix to win Olympic title while world champion from Kenya adds to gold medal won at London 2012.
Shaunae Miller of Bahamas won the women’s 400m final in dramatic style with a diving finish across the line, preventing USA’s Allyson Felix from winning a fifth Olympic gold medal on Monday (15 August) night.
Miller clocked 49.44 seconds to narrowly hold off Felix, who made a late surge in the final straight and loooked like she would catch her rival, finishing strongly with a time of 49.51.
Jamaican Shericka Jackson took the bronze in 49.85.
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Felix won the 400m at the world championships last year and was planning to run the 200m and 400m double at Rio 2016, but was hampered by an ankle injury at the US trials and failed to make the team for the 200m. She won the 200m in London four years ago.
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Felix now has seven Olympic medals, including three silvers. She could still run both the 4×100 and the 4×400 relays in Rio.The 30-year-old American entered the games as one of six women with four Olympic gold medals in athletics.
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