After profitable the ladies’s 5,000m gold earlier within the week, Kenya’s Beatrice Chebet made historical past on Friday within the girls’s 10,000m, taking gold to compete the Olympic distance double. Italy’s Nadia Battocletti set a nationwide document to win silver in 30:43.35, and fan favorite Sifan Hassan of the Netherlands gained her bronze of the Video games in 30:44.12.
It’s the primary time a Kenyan athlete has gained two gold medals on the monitor in a single Olympics, and the primary time a Kenyan has gained gold within the girls’s 10,000m since its addition to the Olympic program in Seoul 1988.
Chebet, the present world document holder within the 10,000m (28:54.15, set earlier this 12 months) positioned herself close to the entrance of the pack through the first few laps and remained there all through, with Battocletti within the center and Hassan operating close to the again, the place she stayed till the ultimate two laps. Chebet can also be the 2024 world cross-country champion, a title she additionally gained in 2023.
The group stayed tightly bunched by way of a lot of the race, with round a dozen girls operating intently collectively into the ultimate laps. Chebet started to choose up the tempo on the bell, adopted by Battocletti, who completed fourth within the 5,000m ultimate earlier within the week. Battocletti ran a tactically good race, placing herself in a great place to strike within the ultimate stretch.
With 200m to go, Hassan, the defending Olympic champion, who had solely begun shifting up from the rear within the ultimate two laps of the race, started a push towards the entrance of the lead group, finally clinching third place and her second bronze medal of the Paris Olympics. (She gained bronze within the 5,000 additionally.)
Hassan is trying an formidable triple, competing within the 5,000m, 10,000m and the marathon at these Olympics. She may have in the future of relaxation on Saturday earlier than tackling the ladies’s marathon on Sunday, the ultimate day of the Video games.
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