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The official schedule informs us that Day 8 (Evening Session) starts in 40mins.
So we’ve got time to recap Hunt’s sensational silver from yesterday.
Read Sean Ingle’s report here:
Sean Ingle
Amy Hunt is just collecting her silver medal. She is looking a little tired, which is not surprising given she got to bed at 5am this morning, and will not be running in the heats of the women’s 4x100m relay later today.
Thiam withdraws from heptathlon
Nafi Thiam – one of the defending champion Katarina Johnson-Thompson’s key rivals – withdrew on Saturday withdrew from the heptathlon on Saturday after an underwhelming long jump left Belgium’s triple Olympic champion with little chance of a medal.
The 31-year-old, who won world titles in 2017 and 2022, failed to get over the six-metre mark with her two legal jumps on Saturday morning to stand in eighth place in the overall standings, 377 points behind the competition-leader Anna Hall.
Thiam, who last lost in competition at the 2019 worlds, had been withdrawn by her coach before the javelin and 800m in the evening session. “I’ve struggled with this heptathlon from the start. I tried to fight it and persevere, but it clearly didn’t work,” a tearful Thiam told Het Nieuwsblad after Saturday morning’s session. “I started this morning thinking I would fight until the end and not leave empty-handed because I’ve worked hard this year ... “I knew I could do something good here and fight for my place in the standings but that didn’t happen. So I’m disappointed, yes. This championship is a real black cloud.“
Thiam competed sparingly in 2025 and had a disrupted run up to the championships after a row with her national federation. She accused the Belgian athletics body of excluding her from their pre-championships camp in a row over image rights. The federation denied the allegation. Thiam was asked whether the row had impacted her performances in Tokyo.
“It’s hard to quantify that,” she told the newspaper. “Regardless of the reasons why I feel the way I do, the reality remains that I feel the way I do. So that doesn’t make a difference.” (Reuters)
Preamble
Hello and welcome to the penultimate day of action in Tokyo. Breaking news in the heptathlon: Belgium’s title contender Nafi Thiam has pulled out after underperforming in the long jump.
