It’s uncommon to see two athletes break up a medal at a significant championship, particularly on the observe. In an uncommon flip of occasions within the males’s 110m hurdles closing on the 2023 Asian Video games in Hangzhou, China, Japanese hurdler Shunya Takayama and Kuwait’s Yaqoub Alyouha discovered themselves in a lifeless warmth, each ending in 13.41 (.409) seconds, sharing the gold medal.
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Even a photograph end couldn’t separate the 2, leaving the officers with a uncommon conundrum. After a number of replays, they ultimately confirmed that each Takayama and Alyouha had clocked an identical occasions.
A lifeless warmth in observe and subject is when two or extra athletes cross the end line on the identical time—and no particular person winner will be named.
Takayama gained bronze within the 110m hurdles on the 2018 Asian Video games in Jakarta and now upgraded that medal to gold in 2023. “Getting a gold medal makes me very blissful,” mentioned Takayama to reporters post-race. “To get two gold medals with one other athlete makes me twice as blissful.”
Alyouha, too, mentioned it was a pleasure to share the victory, acknowledging the rarity of such an final result of their line of labor. “It’s an excellent pleasure for me to win the gold,” mentioned Alyouha. “My nerves ran chilly ready for affirmation that I gained.”
Within the historical past of the Olympics and World Championships, there has not been a shared observe medal because the males’s decathlon in 1912. Alyouha and Takayama are the primary sprinters to share a gold on the Asian Video games.
