Grant Fisher Wins Bronze in the 5000M Final His Second of the Games #paris2024

Team USA takes home a pair of medals in the high jump and the men's 5000 meter in the penultimate night of Athletics Team USA was coming in with 29 medals just three shy of the total medals they won in track and field in Rio but after the lights went out at the stod def France Stadium just outside Paris another six medals would be awarded to the Americans with one in the high jump and one in the 5,000 m with three us women left to compete tomorrow in the marathon before the closing ceremony puts an official end to these games the record set in 1984 with 40 medals appears it will live on though statisticians would argue it is not a true record as the LA Olympics were a boycotted games Grant fiser wins Bronze in the 5000m his second of the games the impressiveness of what Team USA has been able to do in the stadium here in Paris was not lost on the men's 5,000 met bronze medal winner Grant fiser I think Team USA has had a pretty historic meet especially on the distance side so it feels pretty good to be a part of that and it feels good to back up my first bronze The two-time Olympian said after finishing third in the 10,000 M earlier in the week the 27-year-old stopped the clock in the 5,000 m at 13153 earning himself a matching set of bronze medals on Saturday night but the race was so close that when it was said and done even he was unsure of where he stood I didn't know what place I was in with 100 to go with 400 to go I was probably in ninth he admitted I don't know when I moved into third place position probably pretty late even crossing the line I wasn't positive that I'd gotten third but I got it done patience paid off something he has gotten good at over the years people say Metals can't be taken away and that was one thing I was missing my whole career I've gotten records before and those are really fun and really cool and historic but eventually those will go away fiser said but now I've got two medals in one Olympics and I think patience through my career has paid off well and now it's kind of come all at once so it feels really really good his teammate Graham blanks finished in nth The firsttime Olympian who placed fourth in Trials had a time of 13867 Shelby mccuan goes to a jump off to win silver in the high jump when two-time Olympian Shelby mccuan nailed 2.36 on the men's high jump late Saturday evening to earn a gold medal it came as no surprise that New Zealand's homish Kerr was well the two men finished the world indoor championships earlier this year one and two so when they were given the option to share the gold my first instinct was to represent our country USA mchan said pounding his chest and I'm pretty sure he was thinking the same after Kerr said he wanted it to go down to a jump off mchan admitted he was all for It ultimately the New Zealander won putting mchan in a familiar Place second qatar's mutas Essa baram took the bronze at 2.34 I came up short but I'm still thankful for what I got he said the height was just off the American record which was set in 1991 at 2.4 something the 28-year-old thinks he has a chance of breaking I feel great about it the Houston Texas native said and I do feel like in the near future the American record will come down just a little more training staying fit staying healthy putting the right things in my body the University of Alabama grad is used to training hard growing up playing basketball the sport that ultimately turned him onto high jumping dunking as early as the eth grade he won a contest in high school dun ing from the free throw line but the world indoor silver medalist admitted that his love for jumping started at a young age probably around my second grade year I figured out wow I can jump he said I had a lot of fun jumping always growing up and jumping on the trampoline flipping all the time after joining the high school track team where after only one year he won a state championship he gave up basketball and later went on to attend the University of Alabama and their track team at his Olympic debut in Tokyo he reached the high jump final finishing in 12th overall Bryce hoppel sets a new personal best and National Record in the 800m coming close to a Podium finish was two-time Olympian Bryce hoppel who improved on his 16th Place in the 800 meters in Tokyo with a time of 141.5 7 0.17 Seconds shy of the bronze while disappointing to not take home any hardware it was surely frustrating as his time tonight would have won the race at the last Olympics though three years ago the 26-year-old didn't make the Olympic final tonight his time was a new personal best and broke the former National Record set by Donovan brazer in 2019 142. 34 with only meters left in the race the Midlands Texas native looked to be in metal contention when algeria's Jamal Sadi crossed in 1 4150 hoppel most recently finished eight that last year World Championships it's pretty tough to miss medals by that much and kind of see it slip away with guys getting in front of you the 26-year-old said in June he broke the meat record at the US Olympic trials winning in a 142. 77 personal best it makes it a little better he said of knowing that he lowered the National Record I guess it still makes it very Bittersweet it hits hard because I mean even then I did everything that I could gave everything that I had on the day it still wasn't enough it's great for the 800 and great for the sport to see some of the alltime greats out there running faster than some people ever have it was really fun to be a part of that the last American man to medal in 800 meters was Clayton Murphy who earned bronze at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio h h [Applause] w