PARIS — Valarie Allman defended her Olympic title in the women's discus in majestic fashion Monday evening at Stade de France with a 69.50/228-0 in round four, and all four of her legal efforts would have been good enough for victory as she became the first American woman to win two golds in the event. After five days of competition, Team USA has 11 total medals to lead all nations, and 98 points, more than 60 ahead of the nearest nation. Allman had a foul on her first attempt, then sailed the platter out to 68.74/225-6 to take a lead she would not relinquish. Round three produced a 68.06/223-3, and she closed out her series with a 69.21/227-0. China's Bin Feng and Croatia's two-time Olympic champion, Sandra Elkasevic, had bests of 67.51/221-6, with Feng nabbing silver with a better secondary mark. Clearing the first three heights in the men's pole vault on his first attempts, Sam Kendricks had a little glitch at 5.85/19-2.5 and elected to pass to 5.90/19-4.25 after his miss. That turned out to be a wise decision as he soared over that height on his first try and then went clear at 5.95/19-6.25 first time to put himself in medal position. Nobody else besides defending champion Mondo Duplantis cleared that height. Three attempts at 6.00/19-8.25 weren't successful, so Kendricks cheerily earned silver to go with the bronze he got at Rio 2016, while Duplantis went on to clear an Olympic record 6.10/20-0.25 before sailing over a world record 6.25/20-6.25 on his final attempt. Tokyo silver medalist Keely Hodgkinson of Britain held off strong challenges from Ethiopia's Tsige Duguma and Kenya's Mary Moraa to move atop the podium in the women's 800, taking gold in 1:56.72 with Duguma earning silver in 1:57.15 and Moraa bronze in 1:57.42. Juliette Whittaker acquitted herself very well in her first international championship, placing seventh in 1:58.50. A conservative early pace in the women's 5000 brought the field through the first kilometer in 3:10.7 with Norway's Karoline Bjerkeli Grovdal at the front and Americans Elise Cranny and Karissa Schweizer a second behind her. Grovdal cranked up the tempo a bit in the next kilometer to go by 2km in 6:05.4 and Cranny had moved up to third. By the time the 3km mark approached, Ethiopia's Ejgayehu Taye had assumed the lead and went through in 9:00.1 as Cranny tried to hang onto the lead pack in eighth. Racing started in earnest with a kilometer to go and the Kenyan duo of Beatrice Chebet and Faith Kipyegon were the last two standing coming down the final 100. Chebet, the 10,000m world record holder, outkicked Kipyegon, the 1500 world record holder, to take a 14:28.56 victory, with Kipyegon earning silver in 14:29.60. Tokyo champion Sifan Hassan was third in 14:30.61 in the deepest quality finish in Olympic history, but a protest by the Ethiopian team resulted in a disqualification for Kipyegon, temporarily elevating Hassan to silver and Italy's Nadia Battocletti to bronze in a national record 14:31.64. On appeal, Kipyegon was reinstated with the silver. Schweizer placed ninth in 14:45.57, the best ever time by an American at the Olympics and one spot ahead of Cranny, who clocked 14:48.06 in 10th. Whittni Morgan ran a lifetime best 14:53.57 in 13th. The highest placing woman from the Tokyo 200 final three years ago, Gabby Thomas put down her marker for a promotion from bronze to gold with a sublime 21.86 in the second semifinal, the fastest time overall as all three U.S. competitors booked a ticket to the final. Brittany Brown powered down the stretch to pass Britain's Daryll Neita and win the third semi in 22.12, and McKenzie Long was the fastest time qualifier with a 22.30 for third in semifinal one. Coming into the men's 200 heats, no one really doubted the American triumvirate of Noah Lyles, Kenny Bednarek and Erriyon Knighton would make quick work of qualifying for the next round. Bednarek zipped to the fastest first round time in Games history with a 19.96 in heat four, followed by a 19.99 for Knighton in the next heat, the second fastest ever in the opening round. Lyles, on the heels of his stunning 100 gold last night, ran past reigning Olympic champion Andre De Grasse of Canada in the final heat to win in 20.19. American record holder and Tokyo silver medalist Rai Benjamin was untroubled in heat one of the men's 400 hurdles, striding to a 48.82 win to advance to the semifinal. CJ Allen was also an automatic advancer with a runner-up finish in heat three at 48.64, but Trevor Bassitt will need to go through the repechage round after clocking 49.38 for fifth in heat two. World record holder and reigning Olympic champion Karsten Warholm of Norway was the fastest qualifier overall at 47.57. Two of the three U.S. entrants advanced automatically to the semifinal in the women's 400. Alexis Holmes was the fastest of the two, running 50.35 for second in heat six, and Aaliyah Butler took the runner-up spot in heat five at 50.52. Trials champion Kendall Ellis was subpar in the first heat with a fifth-place 51.16 and will have to go through the repechage round if she wants to make the semis. Five women broke 50 seconds, led by Marileidy Paulino of the Dominican Republic at 49.42. In the men's 3000 steeplechase, Trials champion Kenneth Rooks took advantage of the slowish tempo in the final heat, sprinting home to take second in 8:24.95, .001 ahead of Simon Koech of Kenya. Only the top five finishers in each of the three heats advanced to the final. Running the second fastest time of his career, Matthew Wilkinson made a go of it in heat two and ended up just out of the picture for advancement to the final, placing sixth in 8:16.92. James Corrigan was never in contention in the first heat, finishing 10th in 8:36.67. Reigning Olympic champion Katie Moon was the lone American woman to make it through the qualifying round in the pole vault, clearing 4.55/14-11 on her first attempt. Moon took only two vaults in the qualifying, going over 4.40/14-5.25 the first time. Brynn King and Bridget Williams had bests of 4.40/14-5.25 but had to take two attempts at the height and did not advance to the final, which will have 20 competitors. None of the three U.S. men in the discus will compete in the final. Sam Mattis had the best effort among the trio, throwing 62.66/205-7 for 14th overall, with Andrew Evans 17th at 62.25/204-2 and Joseph Brown 22nd at 61.68/202-4.