Braz earned the bronze with a distance of 5.87 meters.
Sweden’s Armand Duplantis won the gold with a distance of 6.02 meters, while Team USA’s Chris Nilsen claimed the silver with a distance of 5.97 meters.
Thiago Braz has dethroned the reigning Olympic champion in record fashion… The 22-year-old Brazilian track & field athlete set an Olympic record of 6.03m to win the gold medal in the men's pole vault at the 2016 Rio Games. Defending champion Renaud Lavillenie of France looked on course to retain…
Robson Conceição is officially Brazil’s first boxing Golden boy…. The 27-year-old Brazilian amateur boxer won Brazil's first Olympic boxing gold medal on Tuesday night at the 2016 Rio Games, delighting a frenzied home audience with a unanimous decision over France's Sofiane Oumiha. But Conceição couldn't step up onto a medal podium…
Make that three in a row for Lázaro Álvarez… The 30-year-old Cuban amateur boxer lost his semifinal men’s featherweight boxing match to the Russian Olympic Committee’s Albert Batyrgaziev by a score of 3-2, leaving him settling for a bronze medal at the 2020 Tokyo Games. It’s Alvarez’s third consecutive Olympic bronze. The southpaw…
