World Athletics Championship: American Chase Ealey wins shot put gold again

BUDAPEST: American Chase Ealey successfully defended her women's shot put crown at the World Athletics Championships on Saturday night, winning her second successive gold medal while China's Gong Lijiao won a record eighth straight individual medal.

Ealey, who was competing with a new technique, produced her season-best throw in her fifth attempt to win the gold with a 20.43 metres effort while Canada's Sarah Mitton took the silver with 20.08. Gong, the 2017 and 2019 world champion who is competing at her ninth consecutive global championships, was chasing her eighth successive medal and she clinched bronze after producing a throw of 19.69, pipping Portugal's Auriol Dongmo on countback. Agencies

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