After her first place end at present within the ladies’s velocity climbing remaining on the Paris Olympics, Aleksandra Mirosław of Poland now holds two velocity climbing information. The primary is the ladies’s velocity world report of 6.06 seconds, a time she raced in Monday’s Olympic seeding spherical. The second is the achievement of being the primary athlete ever to be topped Olympic velocity climbing champion.
In at present’s quarterfinal, Mirosław began the break day sturdy by besting Leslie Romero Perez of Spain. The semi-final was a tricky one although, as she needed to go up towards her Polish teammate Aleksandra Kalucka. She beat Kalucka with a time of 6.19 to six.34, incomes her spot within the finals towards Lijuan Deng of China. Deng fought her strategy to the finals by outracing Indonesia’s Desak Dewi within the quarter-final and Indonesian Rajiah Sallsabillah within the semi-final.
Within the small remaining for bronze, Kalucka bested Sallsabillah after the Indonesian slipped down low on the route. Within the remaining, Mirosław and Deng had flawless begins, and seemed to be neck and neck. Mirosław reached the highest in 6.10 seconds, with Deng shut behind in 6.18. Curiously, each of those instances would have been ladies’s world velocity information had they occurred earlier than Monday’s seeding spherical the place Mirosław completely crushed the earlier world report of 6.24. Deng’s time of 6.18 was private finest.
With these outcomes Mirosław stood atop the rostrum with the primary ever velocity climbing gold medal positioned round her neck. Deng earned silver and Mirosław ‘s Polish teammate Kalucka earned bronze. “It means so much,” stated Mirosław after her victory. “It’s the primary time for Velocity climbing and in addition for me right here within the self-discipline. I’ve my flag, and I used to be standing on the rostrum [in] first place listening to the nationwide anthem. It was wonderful.”
Deng additionally shared her ideas: “On the finish of my climb I noticed the numbers – I didn’t really feel something. I solely knew that it was over. I noticed it was my private finest. I’m a relaxed particular person, which is superb for this sport. I’m very proud that I might take the primary Olympic medal within the sport for Chinese language climbing. I’m grateful that the individuals and the nation are all the time behind me.”
The lads’s velocity climbing quarter-final, semi-final, and remaining happen tomorrow, Thursday August 8.
