In the early morning of August 4, Beijing time, the second day of the Paris Olympic track and field event ended, including the women's triple jump final, Thea Lafon from Dominica won the gold medal with a score of 15.02 meters, beating two athletes from Jamaica and United States, which is also the first Olympic gold medal in the history of Dominica.
According to the rules, a total of 12 players in the triple jump will compete in the final, the first stage will be three long jumps, after three throws, the ninth to twelfth runners will be eliminated, and the top eight players will enter the second stage, the second stage will still perform three long jumps, and finally the best of the six long jumps in the two stages will be combined to determine the final medal winner.
Thea Laffont scored 15.02m in her second jump in the first stage, and the other competitors did not jump farther than her in all rounds, and finally finished first.
It is worth mentioning that this is the first Olympic gold medal in the history of Thea Lafón for the Dominica delegation, which is of epoch-making significance. After the game, Thea Lafón held the national flag high, and Dominica, a small country, was also known to the world because of her, and she was called a national hero!
Dominica is located in the northeast of the Windward Islands in the East Caribbean Sea, is a volcanic island country, east of the Atlantic Ocean, west of the Caribbean Sea, an area of only 751 square kilometers, the national population is only about 77,000, similar to a township on the mainland, per capita economic level is very low.
In this Olympic Games, the Dominica delegation sent a total of 4 athletes to participate in swimming, track and field 2 events, both 2 people, and there is still 1 person left who has not completed the competition, but the Dominica delegation has won the first gold medal in history.
In fact, there is another country with a small population on this competition day, which also won the first Olympic gold medal in history, that is, Saint Lucia, also from the track and field event, Alfred ran a time of 10.72 seconds and won the gold medal in the women's 100m.
As more and more countries with small populations won gold medals, the India delegation became even more embarrassed, sending a total of 117 athletes to win three bronze medals so far, no gold medals, no silver medals, and only 53rd in the gold medal table.