Ethiopia’s Tamirat Tola celebrates after crossing the finish line to win the gold medal in the men’s marathon on Saturday in Paris. Dar Yasin/Associated Press

PARIS — Ethiopian runner Tamirat Tola won the men’s marathon at the Paris Olympics on Saturday to end Kenya’s dominance of the race.

Tola finished in an Olympic record time of 2 hours, 6 minutes and 26 seconds, with Belgium’s Bashir Abdi finishing 21 seconds behind and Benson Kipruto taking bronze for Kenya, 34 seconds back.

The 32-year-old Tola looked back as he neared the line, but he was well clear and had time to soak up the applause. Two weeks ago, he entered the Olympic marathon as a substitute for injured teammate Sisay Lemma.

“I was the reserve in the Ethiopian team, but when Sisay had injuries then I had a chance,” Tola said. “I was fully prepared and knew I could fulfill my dream. I am very proud, very happy.”

It was Tola’s second Olympic medal, with the other coming in the 10,000 meters at the 2016 Rio Games.

“After I came from track I achieved a lot in marathon,” said Tola, who broke a 12-year course record when he won last year’s New York marathon.

It was a second Olympic medal for the 35-year-old Abdi, too, and the Somalia-born athlete went one better than his bronze medal at the Tokyo Games three years ago.

Tola again got the better of Abdi in marathon at a major race. He beat him in the 2022 world championships, where Abdi finished third.

Britain’s Emile Cairess placed fourth on Saturday and even had enough energy for a sprint finish – of sorts – after 42 kilometers (26 miles) in the sun.

Two-time defending champion Eliud Kipchoge struggled throughout. He was more than eight minutes behind Tola at the 30-kilometer mark and did not finish.

The last non-Kenyan to win was Ugandan Stephen Kiprotich at the London Games in 2012.

The 39-year-old Kipchoge was looking to become the first man to win the race three times. Ethiopian Abebe Bikila won it consecutively in 1960 and 1964 and Waldemar Cierpinski did the same in 1976 and 1980 representing then-East Germany.

Breaking from tradition, the men’s Olympic marathon was not held on the final day and instead the women will run on Sunday.

TRACK AND FIELD: Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone and Gabby Thomas teamed up for America’s 14th gold and 34th overall medal at the track Saturday, wrapping up the Olympic action at the Stade de France with a 4.23-second runaway in the women’s 4×400 relay.

The gold medalists in the 400 hurdles and 200 meters took care of legs two and three for the United States, handing a 30-meter lead to Alexis Holmes, who didn’t lose any ground.

The U.S. finished in 3 minutes, 15.27 seconds, only .1 short of the world record.

The American men won gold in the same race in a much closer finish about 15 minutes earlier.

The 34 track medals were the most for the U.S. at a non-boycotted Games since the early 20th century, when there were more events and fewer countries, and the 14 golds are the most in a non-boycotted Olympics since 1968.

• America’s Masai Russell won a photo finish in the women’s 100-meter hurdles where the biggest cheer came for Cyrena Samba-Mayela, whose silver medal marks the first of any color for France at the Olympic track meet.

In a close-as-can-be race down the straightaway, Russell finished in 12.33 seconds, but had to wait another 15 seconds to learn she had beaten the Frenchwoman by .01.

• Jakob Ingebrigtsen won gold in the men’s 5,000 meters by going to the front midway through the last lap and pulling away down the stretch, making up for his surprising fourth-place finish in the 1,500 at the Paris Games.

Ingebrigtsen, a 23-year-old from Norway, completed the 12 1/2 laps around the Stade de France’s purple track in 13 minutes, 13.66 seconds – 1.38 seconds faster than silver medalist Ronald Kwemoi of Kenya.

Grant Fisher of the U.S. was third in 13:15.13, giving him his second bronze of the 2024 Olympics, to go with the one he picked up in the 10,000 on Aug. 2.

GYMNASTICS: The International Gymnastics Federation restored Romanian gymnast Ana Barbosu to third in the women’s floor exercise final, potentially forcing American gymnast Jordan Chiles to return the bronze she won in the event.

It’s unclear whether Chiles will be forced to return her medal. The federation, known as FIG, said while it has restored the initial order of finish – with Barbosu third, Romanian teammate Sabrina Maneca-Voinea fourth and Chiles fifth – the organization added that the allocation of medals was up to the International Olympic Committee.

FIG made the decision not long after the Court of Arbitration for Sport voided an appeal from Team USA Coach Cecile Landi during the competition that had vaulted Chiles onto the podium.

CAS ruled that Landi had made her appeal to have .1 added to Chiles’ score was made past the deadline mandated by FIG rules.

CAS wrote that the initial finishing order should be restored, with Barbosu third, Maneca-Voinea fourth and Chiles fifth. The organization added the FIG should determine the final ranking “in accordance with the above decision,” but left it to FIG to decide who would get the medal behind gold winner Rebeca Andrade of Brazil and silver medalist Simone Biles of the U.S.

FIG spokesperson Meike Behrensen said in an email to The Associated Press that “Reallocation of medals is the responsibility of the IOC.”

At the Olympics, the governing body of each sport manages the competition and decides the results. The IOC typically accepts that result – once appeals to CAS are completed – and formally awards the medals. It’s unclear if the IOC or FIG would ask Chiles to return her medal. The gymnast is already back in the United States.

The IOC did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

IOC: IOC president Thomas Bach told a meeting of members that he will not change the rules to stay in office and that the Olympics will be “best served with a change in leadership.”

Bach has led the International Olympic Committee since September 2013 and his 12-year presidency was to expire next year – a term limit introduced as part of reforms passed after the Salt Lake City bidding scandal 25 years ago.

WOMEN’S GOLF: Lydia Ko completed her Olympic medal collection with the most valuable of them all, a gold medal that puts the 27-year-old Kiwi into the LPGA Hall of Fame.

Ko built a five-shot lead on the back nine at Le Golf National as her closest pursuers all collapsed, and then had to hang on until the very end. Her lead down to one, Ko laid up on the par-5 18th, hit wedge to 7 feet and made birdie for a 1-under 71 and a two-shot victory.

Ko won the silver medal in Rio de Janeiro. She won the bronze in Tokyo. The missing one turned out to be more valuable than its weight in gold. The victory pushed her career total to 27 points for the LPGA Hall of Fame, one of the strictest criteria for any shrine.

Esther Henseleit of Germany finished birdie-birdie for a 66 to make Ko work for it. She wound up with the silver. Xiyu Lin of China birdied the final hole for a 69 to take the bronze.

WOMEN’S WATER POLO: Bea Ortiz scored four goals and Spain won its first Olympic gold medal in women’s water polo, beating Australia 11-9 in the final.

Maica García Godoy had three goals as Spain finished with a perfect 7-0 record. Anni Espar Llaquet scored twice, and Martina Terre made 15 saves.

The Netherlands won bronze when it beat the United States 11-10 on Sabrina van der Sloot’s last-second tiebreaking goal. The Dutch trailed 7-3 at halftime and 10-7 midway through the fourth quarter.

MEN’S VOLLEYBALL: France defended its Olympic gold medal in men’s volleyball, and oh how special to do so right at home with a raucous, standing-room-only crowd offering assists every step of the way.

South Paris Arena instantly became party central as the dejected Poland team sat and watched its victorious opponent dance all over the court.

Fans waving The Tricolore roared and shook the stands for every remarkable rally, leaping block, powerful spike and service ace as their team handled world No. 1 Poland in straight sets.

The second-ranked French won 25-19, 25-20, 25-23 to make it two in a row on top of the Olympic podium.