U.S. triathlete Summer Rappaport qualified for the 2020 Olympics with a seventh-place finish in a shortened qualifying race Thursday morning in Tokyo (Wednesday night in the U.S.)
Top-ranked Katie Zaferes crashed while near the lead in the bike phase and did not finish.
Athletes ran 5 kilometers instead of 10km because of excessive heat that has afflicted Japan for weeks and contributed to the deaths of scores of residents, including an Olympic construction worker.
Rappaport emerged from a chase pack that was nearly two minutes behind the leaders, including American Taylor Spivey, after the bike phase.