Gold goes to Bahrain in top-class Olympic last as Peruth Chemutai is denied a second title and Elizabeth Fowl breaks British file
Winfred Yavi smashed the Olympic file as she took girls’s 3000m steeplechase gold on Tuesday evening (August 6). Bahrain’s world champion received the struggle for the road with reigning Olympic champion Peruth Chemutai in a time of 8:52.76, edging out the Ugandan’s nationwide file of 8:53.34. Bronze went to the 20-year-old Kenyan Religion Cherotich in a PB of 8:55.15.
In a race of the very best high quality, Frenchwoman Alice Finot was roared to fourth place, the Stade de France crowd serving to her surge to a European file of 8:58.67. It’s the first time the highest 4 have taken lower than 9 minutes in the identical race, whereas the highest 10 finishers all went faster than 9:10.
These included Elizabeth Fowl, who broke the British file with an excellent run of 9:04.35 in seventh.
It was Beatrice Chepkoech, Kenya’s world record-holder, who made the early working and she or he was on the head of a gaggle that additionally contained Chemutai, Sembo Almayew of Ethiopia, Cherotich and Yavi with 4 laps to go.
With three laps remaining, Chemutai took the lead and was nonetheless there as the sector reached the bell, with Chepkoech and Yavi on her shoulder. The Kenyan couldn’t keep within the struggle and it got here all the way down to a two-way struggle between Chemutai and Yavi, a battle that was received by the previous.
Almayew in the end completed fifth in 9:00.83, with Chepkoech sixth in 9:04.24.
“This can be a dream come true,” stated Yavi after clocking the fourth-fastest time ever. “It has been such a tough journey to get up to now.”
“Within the last I used to be anticipating one thing good. I simply felt good concerning the race. I believed in myself, that I had that ending pace.”
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