FILE–The Philippines’ John Tolentino (C) celebrates profitable his warmth within the males’s 110m hurdles occasion on the Hangzhou 2022 Asian Video games in Hangzhou in China’s japanese Zhejiang province on October 1, 2023. (Picture by William WEST / AFP)
MANILA, Philippines—Group Philippines’ John Cabang Tolentino could not have earned an outright spot within the semifinals of the Paris Olympics 2024 males’s 110m hurdles first spherical however his hopes for a medal end stayed alive.
Clocking in 13.66 seconds in Warmth 1, the Filipino-Spanish completed because the sixth-best hurdler at Stade de France on Sunday (Manila time).
Solely the High 3 are assured of a semis ticket.
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Japan’s Muratake Rachid (13.22), Spain’s Enrique Llopis (13.28) and Eduardo Rodrigues of Brazil (13.37) had been the three runners that reached the semifinal from Tolentino’s Warmth.
The 22-year-old Tolentino, who completed fourth eventually 12 months’s Asian Video games in the identical occasion, might’ve reached the semis if his time was among the many three quickest instances exterior of the High 15. Sadly for Tolentino, his time ranked simply thirty second general within the first spherical.
Grant Holloway of USA topped the leaderboard after ending the course with a time of 13.01 seconds.
Tolentino competes within the repechage on Tuesday at 4:50 p.m.
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