Jonnie Peacock agonisingly misses out on third straight 100m Paralympic gold after finishing JOINT-THIRD at Tokyo 2020
BLADE RUNNER Jonnie Peacock was dethroned as Paralympic champion in an astonishing four-man photo finish - but won an incredible SHARED bronze medal.
The 28-year-old lost a major championship final for the first time in a decade after finishing in joint third place in the T64 100m final on a balmy night in Tokyo.
The race was won by German Felix Streng in 10.76 seconds while Costa Rican Sherman Isidro Guity Guity took silver with 10.78 seconds.
It took officials several minutes to pour over the official photos to determine who took the bronze medal between Peacock and German Johannes Floors on the finish line.
In the end they simply could not separate the pair despite measuring the time in thousands of a second.
And remarkably for an event of this stature, the pair will now share a spot on the third step of the podium with a time of 10.79 seconds.
Peacock, who has appeared on BC hit Strictly Come Dancing, had started well from the blocks and was tiring towards the line but given the obstacles he has overcome since the last Rio Games he will have surely taken this result.
The Cambridge amputee sprinter had won the competition at the London Games in 2012 aged 19 - he beat the reigning champion Oscar Pistorius - and then retained the title in Brazil in 2016.
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Peacock came to Tokyo knowing that to win his crown back would take one almighty effort, particularly as his preparation had been disrupted by a hamstring injury at the start of the year.
The sport has moved on enormously since the Rio Olympics five years ago and the emergence of Streng is a changing of the guard.
For Peacock, this is his first major event since the 2017 Para Athletics Championships in London, missing the 2019 edition due to an injured kneecap.
Peacock’s story and how he came to lose one of his limbs is quite incredible and worth retelling.
At the age of five, Peacock was so ill with meningitis he was placed into an induced coma as the disease attacked his brain and the tissues in his leg.
Mum Linda was told his right leg would have to be amputated just below the knee yet the surgery was complicated and there was a danger he might not make it through.
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