Shot putter Michelle Carter won gold Friday at the 2016 Summer Olympics - the first women ever to do so for Team U.S.A. She's also the first American woman to win a medal in the Olympic event since 1960, when Earlene Brown claimed the bronze. On her sixth and final final throw, Carter broke her own American record with a 67-foot, 8½-inch heave. Going into the event, it appeared New Zealand's Valerie Adams would be the claim her third consecutive gold in the event after winning the top prize at the 2008 and 2012 Summer Olympics. She was in first place throughout...
- 8/13/2016
- by Dave Quinn, @NineDaves
- PEOPLE.com
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