WATCH: Ecuadorian walker hits 'SIUU' celebration after winning Olympic gold medal

After winning the first Athletic event of the Paris Olympics 2024, Ecuador’s Brian Daniel Pintado celebrated using the iconic celebration of football legend Cristiano Ronaldo. After winning the 20 Km race, the Ecuadorian hit the ‘SIUUU’ celebration and was ecstatic as well as emotional. 

For Ecuador's Brian Daniel Pintado, winning the first athletics gold in the history of the Paris 2024 games in the men's 20km race walking, it was his third time lucky. For an athlete from Ecuador, this was their first medal in Paris and something to be proud of for Brian Daniel Pintado.

On a one-kilometer course located at the base of the Eiffel Tower, the competitors finished the 20 kilometers. A lead group of four broke away from the field with three kilometers remaining as they fought for the podium.

Pintado, the 2023 world silver champion, advanced to win the Olympic gold medal, finishing in 1:18:55 for his third consecutive Olympic appearance. He said after the race that, "In the last few metres, I realised I was completely alone, and seeing the finish line I just kept thinking, I'm the Olympic champion, it's me."

Who won the Women’s 20km race walk event at Paris Olympics 2024?

After breaking away after just 5km, Yang Jiayu of China put on an impressive show to win gold in the women's event. Her time of 1:25.54 put her in front of Australia's Jemima Montag, who grabbed the bronze in 1:26.25, and Spain's Maria Perez, who nabbed the silver in 1:26.19.

Before her father passed suddenly in 2015, Jiayu made a commitment to herself that she would place on the Olympic podium. She placed 12th in Tokyo. Jemima said, "In Tokyo, I was penalised in the backstretch when I was fighting for this medal, and it was a pity that I didn't get on the podium. For the past three years,I’ve tried my best to bloom in Paris for this Olympics, I’m glad I did. It was never mentioned in previous interviews. But I promised him before that I would stand on the top podium, and then today I did it."