Jasmine-Camacho Quinn won the test comfortably.
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Tokyo 2020 has become a very special Olympic Games for Puerto Rico. For the first time in their history, Puerto Ricans will boast of a medal of gold olympic in Athletics. Jasmine Camacho-Quinn she won the final of the women’s 100m hurdles and bathed the Caribbean with glory.
Camacho-Quinn she won with a time of 12.37 seconds, beating Kendra Harrison (USA) and Megan Tapper (Jamaica). This is how Puerto Rico entered the history of athletics.
Jasmine Camacho-Quinn wins gold for Puerto Rico!@TeamUSA‘s @Ken_AYE_ claims the silver in the women’s 100m hurdles. #TokyoOlympics
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In the semifinals he gave a warning of what he was capable of by breaking the Olympic record of the discipline with a mark of 12.26 seconds.
With this she made it clear that she was the best competitor in the group for Tokyo 2020. In the final she could not improve the record, but she won relatively comfortably.
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Puerto Rico’s Jasmine Camacho-Quinn posts an Olympic record in her semifinal heat of the women’s 100m hurdles.
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– SportsCenter (@SportsCenter) August 2, 2021
The athlete, a native of South Carolina and a Puerto Rican mother, received a very special congratulations from a consolidated legend of Puerto Rico: Daddy Yankee.
“Congratulations on that gold medal. Thank you for putting our island in style. Worthy representation!Wrote the San Juan-born musician.
“Daddy Yankee posted me. Do you understand how it feels? It is a legendCamacho-Quinn wrote with apparent excitement via Twitter.
Daddy Yankee posted me 🥺 Do yall understand how that feels? Like wtffffff a legend 😭😭
– Jasmine Camacho-Quinn (@JCamachoQuinn) August 2, 2021
Jasmine, 24, entered the Olympus of athletics. And he celebrated it as it deserves such a milestone. Although he does not speak Spanish, his feeling for Puerto Rico makes up for everything. Another iconic story in Tokyo 2020. Another story of greatness in the Caribbean.
I did it 🥺❤️🥇 pic.twitter.com/MIaqmeSGrP
– Jasmine Camacho-Quinn (@JCamachoQuinn) August 2, 2021