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12:47 PM PDT, August 3, 2021First-time Olympian Athing Mu won gold for Team USA in Tuesday's women's 800-meter final and made history in the process. With a national-record time of 1:55:21, Mu culminated her growing legend, becoming the first American woman to win the event since 1968 at the Mexico City Games.
Mu, 19, came into these Games as the gold-medal favorite and fittingly soared past the competition in her first two heats, winning with times of 2:01.10 and 1:58.07 in Round 1 and the semifinal, respectively. Fellow American and first-time Olympian Raevyn Rogers earned bronze with a personal-best 1:56:81, just behind Keely Hodgkinson, who took silver with Britain's national-record time of 1:55:88.
Hype surrounded Mu's Olympic run long before she took the track in Tokyo, as she shattered six collegiate records and a world record this past season as a freshman at Texas A&M. Mu, who turned pro ahead of the Olympic trials, also finished first in the 400- and 800-meter races in both the 2018 New Balance Indoor Nationals and Outdoor Nationals. She is the first American woman to win the 800m since the 1968 Mexico City Games.
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