Cincinnati Bearcats Alum Annette Echikunwoke Wins Historic Hammer Throw Silver Medal at 2024 Paris Olympics
UC alum Annette Echikunwoke just won a silver medal and made Olympics history on Tuesday, becoming the first American woman in Hammer Throw to medal at the event.
Echikunwoke led in the Paris 2024 event for a time but ended up just short of gold while still finishing with her best mark this season . Canada's Camryn Rogers got the gold, but it was still a historic day for the 2018 grad. It's a great Olympic arc after Echikunwoke missed the Tokyo 2020 games due to lack of adequate drug testing. It wasafter originally committing to compete for Nigeria. Their Olympic federation did not send her requested testers after she asked multiple times and she could not compete as a result. Now, she's made history for the United States.
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