Rio 2016 track and field results: Mo Farah can’t be beat, Usain Bolt is back on the track

Not even a fall can stop Mo Farah of Great Britain. The distance running star was tripped and fell about one-third of the way into the 10,000 meters, but still went on to defend his Olympic gold medal in a thrilling sprint finish over Kenya’s Paul Tanui in Rio on Saturday.

Farah is undefeated in global championship races since winning the 5,000 meters at the 2011 world championships -- he’s 8-for-8 in 5,000- and 10,000-meter races since then. He won double-gold in the 10,000 and 5,000 in London, and is on pace to do so again in Rio. This race didn’t look as easy as the London win, but it was still a gold medal, the third of his career.

Tanui went on to win silver as the U.S.‘s Galen Rupp finished fifth after winning silver in 2012.

Henderson needed a huge jump on his sixth, and final, jump of the day -- and he delivered. He jumped 8.38 meters on his final leap to pass South Africa’s Luvo Manyonga to win Olympic gold. Manyonga won silver and Greg Rutherford, the defending champion, won bronze as the U.S.‘s Jarrion Lawson took fourth. It was Henderson’s first gold medal of his career.

Thompson played spoiler to Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, who was looking for her third consecutive Olympic gold. Thompson had the best start of the field and pulled away throughout the race, asserting her dominance over the field as she went on to win in 10.71 seconds, well clear of Team USA’s Tori Bowie, who won silver in 10.81. Fraser-Pryce won the bronze with a 10.86 -- at least adding some more hardware to her collection, even if it wasn’t gold.

A 21-year-old is the Olympic champion. Nafissatou Thiam of Belgium had a huge second day of competition to win gold in women’s heptathlon over defending champion Jessica Ennis-Hill of Great Britain. Thiam needed to stay within 10 seconds of Ennis-Hill in the 800 meters -- the final event of the competition -- and finished only seven seconds back to secure her first gold medal. Thiam has a bright future in front of her, not that you can improve much on a gold medal.

Usain Bolt ran his first preliminary race, coasting to an easy win in his heat with a time of 10.07 seconds. He was looking to his left to make sure he was in front of his competitors throughout the race, racing with ease across the finish line to qualify for the next round. He’ll have a semifinal and final tomorrow night as he looks to win his third consecutive Olympic title in the 100 -- and Justin Gatlin of the U.S. will do his best to keep him from doing so.