Scandinavian stamina prevails in Lima on Thursday however Ed Chook flies to bronze to earn Britain’s first medal of those 2024 under-20 championships
Norway’s standing as an endurance sports activities powerhouse continued in Lima, Peru, this week when Andreas Fjeld Halvorsen received the world under-20 title at 3000m.
The 18-year-old grew to become the primary European to win gold in both the lads’s 3000m, 5000m or 10,000m within the 38-year historical past of those world junior championships.
Previous winners of those distance working titles embrace Haile Gebrselassie in 1992 and Daniel Komen in 1994, though the 3000m has solely been a part of the programme since 2021.
In a month that noticed fellow Norwegian Jakob Ingebrigtsen shatter Komen’s world 3000m document with 7:17.55 in Poland, Fjeld Halvorsen seems to be poised to comply with in his footsteps.
On the European Underneath-18 Championships two years in the past he completed runner-up within the 1500m and 3000m to Niels Laros of the Netherlands. However in Lima on Thursday (Aug 29) he ran 8:20.56 to win a slower, tactical race forward of Denis Kipkoech of Kenya (8:20.79) with Ed Chook of Britain third (8:21.00).
Ed Chook, Andreas Fjeld Halvorsen, Denis Kipkoech (World Athletics)
For Chook it was Britain’s first medal of those 2024 championships as he out-sprinted Ybeltal Gashahun of Ethiopian to grab a podium place. The 19-year-old Brit had additionally received bronze on the European Underneath-18 Champs within the 3000m behind Laros and Fjeld Halvorsen two years earlier.
“I’m getting within the form of my life now, these final days and weeks had been nice,” mentioned Fjeld Halvorsen, who turns 19 subsequent month. “I wished to struggle for the gold and that’s precisely what I did. I’m grateful for everybody that helped me to do that and those which can be going to assist me get even additional.”
Chook mentioned: “It was excellent. I mentioned in my plan I’d grasp across the again, get that inside lane and sit back. Each time the tempo picked up I simply discovered the hole to get by means of.
“I simply saved going and going till we acquired to 2 laps to go, picked up acquired myself again. When the bell went I didn’t surge, I waited, down that again straight I began going and didn’t cease going.”
Lurdes Gloria Manuel (World Athletics)
The ladies’s 400m title in Lima went to Lurdes Gloria Manuel of Czechia in 51.29 as she convincingly noticed off Canada’s Dianna Proctor (51.98) and USA’s Zaya Akins (52.00) as Britain’s Charlotte Henrich, 17, was seventh in 52.71.
Udeme Okon (centre) (World Athletics)
The lads’s 400m was received by South Africa’s Udeme Okon in 45.69 as he beat US duo Jayden Davis (46.08) and Sidi Njie (46.29).
Sembo Almayew (World Athletics)
The ladies’s 3000m steeplechase was launched into the programme in 2004 and on Thursday Sembo Almayew of Ethiopia beat Celliphine Chespol’s championship document with 9:12.71.
Loice Chekwemoi of Uganda ran 9:18.84 in second with Kenya’s Diana Chepkemoi incomes bronze in 9:29.84.
Tom Tersek (World Athletics)
Within the subject, Tom Tersek of Slovenia, who is just 17, took the gold within the javelin with 76.81m with a closing spherical effort.
Ethan Olivier (World Athletics)
Iosif Kesidis of Cyprus received the lads’s hammer with 82.80m, Ethan Olivier of New Zealand took the lads’s triple leap with 17.01m and Molly Haywood of america received the ladies’s pole vault with a better of 4.47m.
Molly Haywood (World Athletics)
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