Pan American Games in Chile

Guyanese Jasmine Abrams and Emanuel Archibald achieved their objective of reaching the podium as they both won medals in their respective 100m finals at the Pan American Games in Santiago, Chile, on Tuesday evening.

Abrams clocked 11.52 seconds to finish second behind Cuban De La Caridad García (11.36s), while Trinidadian Michelle-lee Ayhe (11.53s) got bronze.
Over in the Men’s 100m, it was a photo-finish as Archibald got bronze at 10.31s (.310)

However, silver went to Brazilian Felipe Bardi, who also had 10.31s (.302), while gold went to Alnardo Gonzalez of the Dominican Republic with 10.30 seconds.
It’s the first Athletics medal for Guyana at the Games since Aliann Pompey (400m Bronze) and Marian Burnett (800m Silver) got the podium in 2003.
Today, Aliyah Abrams will run out of Lane 5 in the Women’s 400m final from 19:23h. She enters the race as the second-fastest qualifier.
At 18:15h, Archibald starts in Lane 4 for semi-final one in the Men’s 200m.
He enters the race with a season-best of 20.69s.

The top two automatically qualify for the final, along with the two fastest non-direct qualifiers.