Meshesha also improved her personal best to 2:00.92 and will now look to lower her time even more before a potential Olympic debut in 2021. In 2019, the then 18-year-old beat a field of experienced rivals to clinch 800m gold at the African Games in Rabat (Morocco), clocking 2:03.16 to beat the likes of Ugandan Olympian Halimah Nakaayi, who went on to win last year’s world title in Doha. Since winning bronze in the 800m at the YOG Buenos Aires 2018, Ethiopia’s Hirut Meshesha has already built on her experience to successfully make the step up to senior level. The postponement of the Games looks unlikely to change their status as medal favourites. Bhaker and Chaudhary won the women’s and men’s 10m air pistol events respectively at the YOG Buenos Aires 2018, and since then have paired up to dominate the mixed team 10m air pistol on the ISSF World Cup circuit, winning in New Delhi, Beijing, Munich and Rio de Janeiro in 2019 to secure a place at Tokyo 2020. The mixed team 10m air pistol is one of three mixed team shooting events that will be held for the first time at the Olympic Games next year, and India’s Manu Bhaker and Saurabh Chaudhary look well placed to challenge for the inaugural gold medal. Manu Bhaker and Saurabh Chaudhary, India, Shooting 2020 Tokyo Olympics gymnastics: MyKayla Skinner wins silver on vault, Suni Lee takes bronze on uneven bars Team USA finds the podium on the first two event finals in women's gymnastics By. Despite climbing as high as 28th in the senior world rankings, qualification for the Olympic Games in 2020 would have been unlikely but, with an additional 12 months to climb the standings, Vitidsarn has every chance of making his Olympic debut in 2021. In 2019, he defended the title again, becoming the first men's singles player to win three World Junior Championships, and claimed gold at the Asian Junior Championships, while he also stepped up to the senior circuit to win four BWF International Challenge tournaments. A silver in the mixed team event meant that Vitidsarn did not leave the Argentine capital empty-handed, and he added to his growing medal collection the following month as he successfully defended his world junior title – beating YOG medallists Lakshya Sen and NARAOKA Kodai en route to victory. Having won the 2017 World Junior Championships, rising Thai badminton star Kunlavut Vitidsarn entered the YOG Buenos Aires 2018 as the top seed for the men’s singles, but after cruising through the group stage suffered a quarter-final defeat to France’s Arnaud Merklé. He’ll be 20-years-old by the time he reaches next year’s Olympic Games in Tokyo – and will clearly be among the favourites for a place on the podium. In 2019, he clinched his first senior medal by winning silver at the Pan-American Games in Lima and also extended his personal best to 17.49m – just 1cm shy of Volker Mai's world junior record, which was set way back in 1985. That would have been enough to clinch fourth place in the Rio 2016 Olympic final, but Díaz has since gone on to even greater heights (or lengths). Continuing his nation’s fine tradition in jumping disciplines, Cuban triple jumper Jordan Díaz produced one of the most eye-catching performances at the YOG Buenos Aires 2018, as he secured gold with a best leap of 17.14m.
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