Gibson finishes fourth Seymour settles for fifth

Fri, Aug 9th 2019, 11:47 AM

 

 

“I really thought I would get a medal. I wanted a medal more than qualifying for the Worlds.”

So said 400 meters (m) hurdler Jeffery Gibson on Thursday at the 18th Pan American Games in Lima, Peru. At the end of the day, he came up short in both – missing out on a medal by one spot, and failing to reach the qualifying standard for the 17th International Association of Athletics Federations’ (IAAF) World Championships in Doha, Qatar, by a little over two tenths of a second.

Running out of lane nine, national record holder Gibson finished fourth in his specialty, the men’s 400m hurdles, in a season’s best time of 49.53 seconds at the Athletics Stadium Parque Kennedy in Lima, on Thursday. Alison Brendom Alves dos Santos, of Brazil, won the gold medal in a personal best time of 48.45 seconds, American Amere Lattin was second in 48.98 seconds, and Kemar Mowatt, of Jamaica, won the bronze medal, in 49.09 seconds.

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