Gabby Thomas vs Julien Alfred Women's 200m FINAL II 2024 Olympic Games Paris 2024

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00:00Who will be the next Olympic champion?

00:06Today we are looking at the women's 200m final at the Olympic Games in Paris.

00:11In 2021 Elaine Thompson Herrera defended her Olympic title over 200m in an outstanding

00:16time of 21.53 in front of Christine Mboma 21.81 and Gabby Thomas 21.87.

00:24Sadly this season Elaine was not able to qualify herself for the Olympic Games due to a foot

00:28injury at the Grand Prix in New York.

00:30Last year at the World Championships Srivika Jackson dominated the 200m race in 21.41

00:35seconds in front of Gabby Thomas and Shakya Richardson.

00:39Srivika raced the second fastest time in history.

00:42Only France's Griffith Joyner ran faster in 1988 in a time of 21.34 seconds.

00:48Shortly before her heat in Paris Srivika had to withdraw due to a hamstring injury.

00:53Sadly she had injury problems almost the whole season.

00:56On the other hand Shakya Richardson didn't qualify herself for Paris she only finished

00:59fourth at the US National Championships in a time of 22.16 seconds.

01:04When we look at the semifinals we can see the two athletes race times under 22 seconds.

01:09Gabby Thomas is aiming for her first Olympic gold medal.

01:13Early in the season in March the 27 year old directly showed the world her outstanding

01:17shape at the Texas Relays.

01:19She dominated over 100m in wind aid in 10.88 seconds and also raced the world leading time

01:24over 200m in 22.08 seconds.

01:27At the US National Championships she improved her season best and won in 21.78 seconds.

01:33This season we already saw an epic battle between Julian Alfred and her at the Diamond

01:37League in London.

01:38Two weeks ago Thomas beat Julian in a close race in a time of 21.82 seconds.

01:43The athlete from Tungluja finished second in 21.86 seconds.

01:47Gabby raced her personal record last year at the US National Championships in 21.60

01:51seconds.

01:52I think it's possible that she is able to come close tonight to her personal record.

01:57The 100m Olympic champion Julian Alfred is so ready to win her next Olympic medal.

02:02She started her first year as a professional athlete directly with a win at the World Indoor

02:05Championships in 6.98 seconds.

02:09Outdoors at the Racer Gramby in Kingston, Jamaica Julian improved her personal record

02:12over 100m to 10.78 seconds.

02:16Like I already mentioned over 200m she finished second behind Gabby Thomas two weeks ago in

02:20a new national record of 21.86 seconds.

02:23On Saturday the highly talented athlete shocked Jacques Richardson and wrote history for Tungluja

02:28with a win at the Olympic final over 100m in stunning 10.72 under rainy conditions.

02:34Julian is looking very powerful, we can expect such a crazy battle between these two track

02:38stars.

02:39Faywa Ofile from Nigeria and Brittany Brown from the United States also ran great times

02:44in the semifinals.

02:45Faywa showed early in the season her stunning shape.

02:48At the LSU meeting she raced a wind-aided time of 10.78 seconds.

02:53In the semifinal she improved her season best over 200m in 22.05 seconds.

02:58If the Nigerian is able to come close to her personal record of 21.96 seconds, a medal

03:03is for sure possible.

03:05The 30-year-old Brittany Brown impressed everybody at the US National Championships when she

03:09finished second in a new personal record of 21.90 seconds.

03:13In Oslo, Norway she also won her first Diamond League race in her career in 22.32 seconds.

03:18This will be an exciting race.

03:20Here you can see the start list at the women's 200m at the Olympic Games in Paris.

03:24Who will win Olympic gold over 200m?

03:27Julian Alfred and Gabby Thomas start excellent to the race.

03:30Both were pretty even after the first 100m.

03:34Thomas finished better like in London and won in a time of 22.83 seconds.

03:39Julian finished second in a good time of 22.08.

03:43Her second Olympic medal, absolutely outstanding.

03:46It was such a close fight for bronze between Brittany Brown, Dina Asher-Smith, Daryl Nita

03:51in favor of Fili.

03:53Brittany Brown had the best finish and won the Olympic bronze medal in a time of 22.20

03:58seconds.

03:59Great race, great athletes, the Olympic Games are so exciting to watch.

04:03Thanks for watching everyone and see you next time.

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