Olympics-Athletics-Gardiner takes 400m gold on a night of firsts

[ASFN Admin]

Steven Gardiner of the Bahamas won the 400 metres on Thursday, becoming the first athlete to win Olympic gold in an individual men's event in his country's history, after a carefully balanced race shut out the Americans in a contest they once dominated. Anthony Zambrano of Colombia, who went into the race wearing gold earrings saying "400", took silver, becoming the first male athlete from the South American nation to win an Olympic medal in athletics. Kirani James of Grenada grabbed bronze, his third medal in the event and his country's first of the Games, after winning gold in 2012 and silver five years ago in Rio.

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