Shaun Gill places 6th in Preliminary Round 100m heat

Published by [email protected] at August 3, 2024

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Posted: Saturday, August 3, 2024. 9:21 am CST.

Shaun Gill, Belize’s only Olympian at Paris 2024, running the 100m sprint on Saturday, August 3 – Photo Credit: Cameron Spencer/Getty Images/BOCGA

By Rubén Morales Iglesias: Shaun Gill, Belize’s only Olympian at Paris 2024, finished the 100m sprint in sixth place in the fastest heat of the Preliminary Round at the Stade de France clocking a time of 11.17 seconds.

Shaun Gill, Belize’s only Olympian at Paris 2024, finished the 100m sprint in sixth place in the fastest heat of the Preliminary Round at the Stade de France clocking a time of 11.17 seconds.

“Shaun gave it his all in the preliminary round of the men’s 100m race, finishing 6^th,” the Belize Olympic and Commonwealth Games Association (BOCGA) said in a social media post.

“While we didn’t qualify for the next round, we are incredibly proud of his efforts. Thank you, Shaun, for representing Belize with heart.”

The two athletes who qualified from Heat 4 were Haiti’s Christopher Borzor, clocked at 10.26, and Marcos Santos of Angola with 10:31, a national record. Borzor ran the best time in all six heats.

Gill’s time of 11.17 at Paris is far from his personal best of 10.57 set at the Central American Games at the Managua, in Nicaragua on December 9, 2017.

In his first Olympic participation in the 2021 Tokyo Olympics ran the 100m in a much faster time of 10.88 seconds in the Preliminary Round.

Gill also represented Belize at the World Championships in Eugene, Oregon in the United States, in 2022, when he clocked 10.77 seconds.

His best time this year is 10.69, set on April 27 at the Mike A. Myers Stadium in Austin, Texas, in the United States.

Later in the day in Round 1 at the Stade France, Americans Kenneth Bednarek and Fred Kerley, clocked 9.97, the fastest times in Heats 7 and 8 respectively. Favourite Noah Lyles finished second in Heat 3 in 10.04.

Jamaican Usain Bolt holds both the World (9.58) and Olympic (9.63) records in the 100m. Bolt set the World Record on August 15, 2009, in Berlin, Germany, and the Olympic Record on August 4, 2012, at the London Olympics.

After the event, Gill announced his retirement.

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