Crimson Tide Olympic Contingent Wins Five Medals at the Tokyo Games

TOKYO – With Sunday’s Closing Ceremonies bringing the Tokyo Olympics to an finish, the Crimson Tide contingent, 22-strong from 13 completely different international locations, loved a robust displaying on the 2021 Video games, producing 5 medals in all, together with a gold, three silver and a bronze.

Remona Burchell earned gold as a part of Jamaica’s 4×100-meter relay contingent, operating within the qualifying heats. Haylie McCleney (softball) and David Robertson each led their respective United States’ squads to silver medals, whereas Rhyan White struck silver after main off Group USA’s 400-meter medley relay within the heats. Kirani James (Grenada) turned the primary Olympian to win three medals within the males’s 400 meters, taking bronze in Tokyo after profitable gold in 2012 and silver in 2016.

Different standout showings embrace White ending fourth within the each the 100-meter and 200-meter backstroke, Kristian Gkolomeev (Greece) taking fifth within the males’s 50-meter freestyle and Leonie Kullmann serving to tempo Germany to a sixth-place end within the 800-meter freestyle relay.

Stephanie Meadow took seventh in ladies’s golf with a livid end of the final three days and Shallon Olsen (Canada) additionally took seventh in her second Olympic vault ultimate after going all-around within the crew competitors. Jereem Richards took eighth within the males’s 200 meters and was eighth as a part of Trinidad and Tobago’s 4×400-meter relay, the final monitor and subject occasion of the Video games.

Merel van Dongen helped propel The Netherlands out of pool play and into the elimination spherical within the nation’s first look within the Olympic ladies’s soccer match.

For extra on Alabama on the 2021 Olympic Video games, take a look at The Tide in Tokyo. 

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