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Jemima Montag has won Australia’s first athletics medal at the Olympics , taking bronze in the 20km walk on Thursday. It is the 26-year-old’s first Olympics medal after finishing sixth in Tokyo. Montag made a hot start to stay with the lead group for the first half of the race before biding her time to make her move. She was fifth at the 15km mark as China’s world record holder Yang Jiayu surged to the front.
A noted big-event performer, the 26-year-old Montag was second at last year’s world championships and claimed gold at the previous two Commonwealth Games. Earlier on Thursday, Brian Pintado from Ecuador won the first athletics title of the Paris Olympics, surging away in the final stages to claim gold in the men’s 20km walk. Pintado clocked a winning time of 1:18:55, with the minor medals going to Caio Bonfim from Brazil and Spaniard Alvaro Martin .
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