USA's Bryce Hoppel Fails to Medal During Men's 800m at 2024 Olympics

Team USA's Bryce Hoppel produced an incredible time in the men's 800 meters, but he came up one place shy of the medals on Saturday.

Hoppel's 1:41.67 time would have been fast enough to win the gold medal in Tokyo, but the blistering pace of Saturday's race inside the Stade de France meant he had to settle for fourth place.

Kenya's Emmanuel Wanyonyi took gold in a narrow finish over Canada's Marco Arop. All eight runners in the event finished in a faster time than the winner in Tokyo.

Results

1. Emmanuel Wanyonyi (Kenya) - 1:41.19

2. Marco Arop (Canada) - 1:41.20

3. Djamel Sedjati (Algeria) - 1:41.50

4. Bryce Hoppel (United States) - 1:41.67

5. Mohamed Attaoui (Spain) - 1:42.08

6. Gabriel Tual (France) - 1:42.14

7. Tshepiso Masalela (Botswana) - 1:42.82

8. Max Burgin (Great Britain) - 1:43.84

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Hoppel had a chance to medal at the end as part of a sprint over the final 100 meters.

The American pushed hard, but he could not beat out Wanyonyi, Arop and bronze medalist Djamel Sedjati.

Wanyonyi barely edged out Arop at the finish line to bring home Kenya's fifth consecutive gold in the men's 800 meters.

Arop brought home Canada's first medal in the event since 1964, while Sedjati earned a second medal in three Olympics for Algeria in the 800 meters.

Sedjati came into the race as the favorite, but he never had control of the race and a late kick only earned him a bronze medal.

Hoppel's failure to medal marked the first time in Paris that an American man did not medal in a track event. Team USA finished on the medal podiums in the 100, 200, 400, 1500 and 10,000 meters.