Experience prevailed on day 4 of the World Championships with Kenyan runner Faith Kipyegon and Venezuelan triple jumper Yulimar Rojas among the many Olympic champions standing on prime of the rostrum in Oregon
Experience prevailed on day 4 of the World Championships with Kenyan runner Faith Kipyegon and Venezuelan triple jumper Yulimar Rojas among the many Olympic champions standing on prime of the rostrum in Oregon
Experience prevailed on day 4 of the World Championships with Kenyan runner Faith Kipyegon and Venezuelan triple jumper Yulimar Rojas among the many Olympic champions standing on prime of the rostrum in Eugene, Oregon on Tuesday.
Morocco’s Soufiane El Bakkali backed up his Tokyo 3,000 metres steeplechase win by ending Kenya’s dominance on the worlds, whereas Qatar’s Mutaz Barshim had excessive bounce gold all to himself this time.
Kipyegon, winner of the final two Olympic 1,500m titles, completed with a outstanding time of three minutes, 52.96 seconds to regain her world crown.
Ethiopia’s Gudaf Tsegay took silver whereas Laura Muir, runner-up on the Tokyo Olympics, gained bronze to gather Britain’s first medal of the championship.
“I have to say I am thankful for my second gold medal,” stated Kipyegon, who gained the 2017 title and picked up silver in 2019, a yr after having a child.
Rojas dominated the triple bounce from begin to end and cruised to gold after leaping 15.47m to say her third straight world title.
Jamaican Shanieka Ricketts collected her second consecutive world silver whereas American Tori Franklin delighted the house crowd by clinching bronze.
In the steeplechase, El Bakkali produced a tactical masterclass to win his first world title and maintain a Kenyan off prime spot for the primary time since 2005.
Lamecha Girma of Ethiopia, silver medallist in Tokyo, completed runner-up whereas 2019 world champion Conseslus Kipruto of Kenya gained bronze.
Qatar’s Barshim, who famously shared Olympic gold with Italy’s Gianmarco Tamberi final yr, gained an unprecedented third straight world excessive bounce title after clearing a world-leading 2.37m with ease.
World indoor champion Woo Sang-hyeok of South Korea took silver and Ukraine’s Andriy Protsenko collected bronze.
Double Olympic champion Nafissatou Thiam of Belgium pulled out a last-gasp victory over Dutch rival Anouk Vetter to reclaim her world heptathlon title.
Vetter, who completed behind Thiam in Tokyo, needed to accept silver once more whereas American Anna Hall gained bronze.
In the morning session, Gotytom Gebreslase gained the ladies’s marathon in a world championship-record time of two hours, 18.11 minutes and declare a second marathon title for Ethiopia in Eugene after Tamirat Tola triumphed within the males’s occasion on Sunday.
“Tola’s win yesterday motivated me a lot today,” stated Gebreslase, who completed forward of Kenya’s Judith Korir whereas Lonah Salpeter of Israel secured bronze.
Three Japanese athletes and one coach examined optimistic for COVID-19 on Monday, taking the whole variety of instances within the delegation as much as 15.
Organisers have made it obligatory for all workforce, technical and medical officers and media to put on masks in indoor areas as a cautionary measure.
Source: www.thehindu.com