PARIS, France, Aug 7 (ACN) Cuban runner Roxana Gomez lost any chance to be in the 400m final after finishing fifth in her qualifying heat at the 2024 Olympic Games.
Gómez was very slow during the first 200 meters of the race and thus thwarted her aspirations of being one of the eight finalists, as she was in Tokyo 2020.
Salwa Eid Naser (Bahrain), Marileidy Paulino (Dominican Republic) and Natalia Kaczmarek (Poland) boasted the best times in the 400m semifinals, namely 49.08s, 49.21s and 49.45