Saturday 4th November 2023.- Panamanian Gianna Woodruff has definitively won the gold medal in the 400-meters hurdles at Santiago 2023, after the country's Olympic Committee filed an appeal, allowing for a review of the decision.

As a result, a panel with higher qualifications than the arbitral body decided that the athlete did not deliberately knock down the hurdle in the competition held on Friday at the Estadio Nacional. Therefore, during the afternoon of this Saturday, it was decided to reinstate the medal.

The significance of this new decision is that her victory is only the fifth for her country in the history of the Pan American Games, the first in athletics since the long jumper Irving Saladino in Rio de Janeiro 2007, and the first by a woman.

The runner, born in the United States and who chose to represent her mother's country, achieved a time of 56.44 seconds in the final held at the Estadio Nacional.

Thus, the podium is set with gold for Woodruff, silver for Marlene Santos of Brazil, and bronze for Daniela Rojas of Costa Rica.

Written by Ernesto Bustos B. – Rodrigo Gómez; translated by Rocio Rojas / Photosport
Photo by Daniel Apuy/Santiago 2023 / Photosport