{"id":39794,"date":"2021-08-08T03:39:45","date_gmt":"2021-08-08T03:39:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=39794"},"modified":"2021-08-08T03:39:45","modified_gmt":"2021-08-08T03:39:45","slug":"tokyo-olympics-jason-kenny-wins-keirin-to-become-first-briton-with-seven-gold-medals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=39794","title":{"rendered":"Tokyo Olympics: Jason Kenny wins keirin to become first Briton with seven gold medals"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Jason Kenny became the first British athlete to win seven Olympic gold medals as he defended his men’s keirin title in spectacular fashion in Tokyo.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The 33-year-old stunned the field as he sprinted clear with three laps remaining to claim victory.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

It is a ninth Olympic medal for Kenny, who won <\/span>silver in the team sprint<\/span><\/a> to become GB’s most decorated Olympian earlier this week at the Izu Velodrome.<\/span><\/p>\n

His tally of seven golds is one more than former team-mate Chris Hoy. <\/span><\/p>\n

The 2016 champion caught his five rivals by surprise with a long-range attack and held on to finish 0.763 seconds clear of Malaysia’s Azizulhasni Awang with the Netherlands’ reigning world champion Harrie Lavreysen taking bronze.<\/span><\/p>\n

Lavreysen made it three medals in Tokyo but had been aiming to emulate Kenny’s achievement of five years ago by winning all three men’s sprint events.<\/span><\/p>\n

Kenny progressed from a semi-final that also included compatriot and individual sprint bronze medallist Jack Carlin, but the 24-year-old failed to qualify for the final after finishing fourth.<\/span><\/p>\n

Contesting the race to decide the minor positions, Carlin finished second to claim an eighth-placed overall finish.<\/span><\/p>\n

More to follow.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Jason Kenny became the first British athlete to win seven Olympic gold medals as he defended his men’s keirin title in spectacular fashion in Tokyo. The 33-year-old stunned the field as he sprinted clear with three laps remaining to claim victory. It is a ninth Olympic medal for Kenny, who […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39795,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hindi-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/97584297_breaking_news.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39794\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/39795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}