American Norman Wins World 400m Gold

American Norman Wins World 400m Gold

American Michael Norman made up for a disappointing fifth-placed finish at the Tokyo Olympics by winning the world 400m gold in Eugene on Friday.

Norman, who failed to advance from the semi-finals in the Doha worlds in 2019 with a thigh injury, clocked a winning time of 44.29 seconds, AFP said.

Three-time Olympic medalist and 2011 world champion Kirani James of Grenada claimed silver with 44.68sec, while Briton Matthew Hudson-Smith took bronze (44.66).

"It is an amazing feeling for sure. Just to come out here on a home track and pull out with a gold individual medal," said Norman.

"It is going to be a memorable one. I want to remember what took me here and I am just thankful to everybody who supported me throughout my whole career.

"Without those people, I would not be where I am right now. So I really appreciate all those people. It took a lot of work to get where I was - obviously last year was not a good year for myself so I had to do a lot of hard work just to kind of get back to where I was.

"I just wanted to make sure that I did everything that I could have possibly done