Shot putter Ogunleye secures Olympic gold

Shot putter Ogunleye secures Olympic gold Article by dpa • 25 million • 1 minute reading time Yemisi Ogunleye won gold with her last attempt. Shot putter Yemisi Ogunleye from Mannheim has sensationally won gold at the Paris Olympic Games. The 25-year-old managed 20.00 meters in her last attempt in the Stade de France. The second place finisher at the World Indoor Championships and third place finisher at the European Championships thus secured the German athletics team's first gold at these games. Silver went to New Zealander Maddison-Lee Wesche with 19.86 meters, while Song Jiayun from China was delighted to take bronze with 19.32 meters. Alina Kenzel from Stuttgart took ninth place with 18.29 meters, Katharina Maisch was eliminated in the qualification. There, Ogunleye only made it into the final in her third and final attempt. World champion Chase Jackson from the USA was unable to qualify. It is the fourth medal for the German athletics team at the Paris Games. This means that the association's target has even been exceeded. Decathlete Leo Neugebauer and long jumper Malaika Mihambo each won silver, and the women's sprint relay team took bronze shortly before Ogunleye's gold coup in the 4x100 meters. The shower that fell during the relay race had made the shot put ring slippery. Spin putter Ogunleye slipped on her first attempt and hit her knee, but had then gotten used to the conditions in the evening sun. With her second attempt at 19.55 meters, she catapulted herself into second place. With her fifth attempt, Ogunleye briefly took the lead, but Wesche immediately countered. But with her last attempt, Ogunleye managed to create a sensation.