China's Gong Lijiao won the women's shot put gold with a personal best effort on a blisteringly hot Tokyo morning on Sunday as the athletics world braced for the men's 100 metres, one of the pinnacles of the Games, later in the day.
As trackside temperatures hit 40 degrees Celsius Gong, after 14 years of international competition, produced a throw of 20.58 metres.
The evergreen 36-year-old returned to action this year after having her second child and follows Jamaica's Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, who is also combining motherhood with elite performance having won silver in Saturday's 100 metres final. African steeplechasers are well used to training in the heat but even they were looking somewhat distressed, despite being first on the track at just before 10am local time.
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