{"id":7681,"date":"2024-08-08T11:14:53","date_gmt":"2024-08-08T14:14:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/?p=7681"},"modified":"2024-08-08T11:14:53","modified_gmt":"2024-08-08T14:14:53","slug":"queens-countys-sarah-mitton-qualifies-for-olympic-shot-put-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/2024\/08\/08\/queens-countys-sarah-mitton-qualifies-for-olympic-shot-put-final\/","title":{"rendered":"Queens County’s Sarah Mitton qualifies for Olympic shot put final"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Sarah Mitton of Brooklyn, Queens County, has qualified for the shot put final at the Paris 2024 Olympics. This is a photo from the World Athletics Indoor Championship in March where she won gold. (Sarah Mitton photo)<\/p><\/div>\n

Brooklyn’s Sarah Mitton qualified for the shot put final at the 2024 Olympics in Paris this morning on her first throw.<\/p>\n

The 28-year-old world indoor champion made it through to Friday’s final with a throw of 19.77 metres, which was the best of the qualifying round. The qualification standard is 19.15 m.<\/p>\n

“That’s the way I like it,” Mitton told CBC Sports<\/a>. “It’s a lot less stressful when you’re one and done.”<\/p>\n

Mitton’s mother, Bonnie, was in the Stade de France to see her daughter go through to the final.<\/p>\n

The top-rated American and two-time world champion Chase Jackson did not make it to the final. She missed her first two attempts and threw 17.6 m on her third.<\/p>\n

New Zealand’s Maddison-Lee Wesche was the second-best qualifier at 19.25 m and Germany’s Yemisi Ogunleye was third with a throw of 19.24 m.<\/p>\n

The final is scheduled for Friday at 2:37 p.m.<\/p>\n

The Astor Theatre in Liverpool is holding a watch party so that Mitton’s Queens County fans can watch the event live. That goes from 2 to 4 p.m. on Friday.<\/p>\n

Email: rickconradqccr@gmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Brooklyn’s Sarah Mitton qualified for the shot put final at the 2024 Olympics in Paris this morning on her first throw. The 28-year-old world indoor champion made it through to Friday’s final with a throw of 19.77 metres, which was the best of the qualifying round. The qualification standard is 19.15 m. “That’s the way […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,5],"tags":[38,1813,2545,48,1815,39,2546,884,1818,267,1805,2543,1626,2547],"class_list":["post-7681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community-news","category-news-posts","tag-astor-theatre","tag-athletics","tag-bonnie-mitton","tag-brooklyn","tag-chase-jackson","tag-liverpool","tag-maddison-lee-wesche","tag-olympics","tag-paris-2024","tag-sarah-mitton","tag-shot-put","tag-shot-put-final","tag-sports","tag-yemisi-ogunleye"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7681"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7682,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7681\/revisions\/7682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}