Jasmine Camacho-Quinn won Puerto Rico’s first ever Olympic track and field gold as she cruised to victory in the women’s 100m hurdles at Tokyo 2020.
The 24-year-old is only the second athlete from the US territory to win an Olympic gold medal, after Monica Puig in the women’s tennis singles in 2016.
An emotional Camacho-Quinn said it “meant a lot” after she stormed across the line in 12.37 seconds.
“I wanted to be a gold medallist and I got it,” she said.
World indoor champion Kendra Harrison took silver, to give the US a medal in the women’s sprint hurdles for the sixth Olympic Games in a row – the longest medal streak by a single nation in this event in the history of the Games.
Jamaica’s Megan Tapper won bronze.
–BBC
