19-year-old Mu becomes first American woman to win Olympic 800m gold - Punch Newspapers

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Teenager Athing Mu became the first American woman to win the Olympic 800m crown in more than half a century Tuesday, producing a superb display of front-running to win the gold.

Mu, whose parents moved to the United States after fleeing civil war in Sudan, is the first American woman to win the Olympic 800m title since Madeline Manning at the 1968 Mexico City Games. It was a performance reminiscent of David Rudisha’s world record-breaking performance at the 2012 Olympics, when the Kenyan led from start to finish to claim a brilliant gold.“I think I’ve compared myself to him once, just thinking about how he ran.The women’s 800m world record remains one of the longest-standing records in athletics, a daunting 1:53.28 set by Jarmila Kratochvilova of then Czechoslovakia during the Cold War state-sponsored doping era.

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