Joseph Fahnbulleh, Liberia’s first-ever Olympic finalist, has superior to his second consecutive males’s 200m Olympics semi finals in Paris, France. Fahnbulleh booked his ticket to the semis after putting first in his warmth with a time of 20.20, 0.26 seconds higher than his earlier warmth run on the Tokyo Olympics.
He’ll compete once more on Wednesday, August 7, seeking to advance to his second consecutive Olympics closing. Fahnbulleh is one in every of seven Liberian athletes representing the nation on the ongoing Olympics in Paris.
On the earlier Olympics, Fahnbulleh had Liberians throughout the globe glued to their screens anticipating their first-ever gold medal, however the 22-year-old missed out as he completed fifth within the closing, setting a brand new nationwide file with a time of 19.98 seconds.
Fahnbulleh went into this 12 months’s Olympics as a double African champion after successful double gold within the males’s 100m and 200m of the twenty third African Athletics Championships in Douala, Cameroon, changing into the primary Liberian athlete to win double gold on the championship.
Earlier on August 4, Liberia males’s 100m nationwide file (9.91) holder, Emmanuel Matadi, didn’t advance to the boys’s 100m closing after working 10.18 and putting eighth in warmth two of the semifinals.
He had booked his place within the semi after ending his warmth as one of many subsequent three quickest on the general. This 12 months’s version marks Matadi’s third Olympics after representing Liberia on the 2026 and 2021 Olympics.
He’ll compete as one in every of Liberia’s runners within the males’s 4×100 relay on Thursday, August 8.
Ebony Morrison, Liberia’s first-ever silver and gold medalist on the African Championship is making ready to make her second look on the Olympics. She’s going to hit the monitor working on Wednesday, August 7, within the girls’s 100m hurdles.
Ebony had an honest debut on the 2021 Olympics when she ran a time of 12.74 within the semifinals, setting a nationwide file, however missed the ultimate.