PARIS: Valarie Allman of the United States captured her second consecutive Olympic women's discus gold medal on Monday, unleashing a 69.50 metre effort on her fourth throw.
The 29-year-old's mark was nearly two metres better than China's Feng Bin, who took silver with 67.51.
Former double Olympic and world champion Sandra Elkasevic of Croatia also threw 67.51 but had to settle for bronze because Feng's second-best effort topped the Croatian's.
Allman followed her Tokyo gold with back-to-back world titles in 2022 and 2023 and is unbeaten this season.
Having gold locked up before her final throw, the American stepped into the circle to huge applause and after hurling the discus 69.21 sprinted to her coach and leapt into his arms. -- Reuters.