#ParisOlympics: Roshawn Clarke hits hurdle, fails to finish Olympic final
KINGSTON, Jamaica— Roshawn Clarke failed to complete the final of the men’s 400m hurdles on Friday’s penultimate day of competition on the track at Stade de France in Paris after hitting the final hurdle.
Clarke, who also had issues with a hurdle early in the final at last year’s World Athletics Championships in Budapest but recovered to finish fourth, could not recover from hitting the 10th barrier, and falling to the track.
A similar incident in the semi-finals had ended Malik James-King’s campaign.
American Rai Benjamin won his first major global championships in emphatic style, running a season’s best 46.46 seconds to beat World Champion and defending champion Karsten Warholm of Norway- 47.06 seconds with Brazil’s Alison Dos Santos taking the bronze medal with 47.26 seconds.
-Paul A Reid
