In an exciting 3,000m males’s steeplechase remaining, regardless of some who doubted he was in high form, Morocco’s Soufiane El Bakkali defended his Olympic title, profitable gold with a time of 8:06.05. El Bakkali, who additionally claimed gold on the Tokyo 2020 Olympics and the 2022 World Championships, confirmed his dominance as soon as once more. American Kenneth Rooks earned a shock silver with a private better of 8:06.41, whereas Kenya’s Abraham Kibiwot took bronze in 8:06.47.
Ethiopia’s Lamecha Girma, the world document holder within the occasion with a time of seven:52.11, was poised to problem for a high place, however took a extreme fall within the remaining lap and didn’t rise up, showing to lose consciousness. He left the Stade de France on a stretcher and was rushed to hospital. He gained silver behind El Bakkali at Tokyo 2020.
Can somebody PLEASE inform us how Lamecha Girma 🇪🇹 is?!?! That fall within the 3000M Steeplechase was horrific! @bbcsport #olympics #Paris2024 pic.twitter.com/YNGk42XC7Q
— Ian Ridpath (@ianridpath) August 7, 2024
Rooks made a transfer to the entrance with 300 metres to go, avoiding Girma’s fall that disrupted a majority of the sphere. Rooks and Kibiwot challenged El Bakkali in a three-way race to the road down the house straight, with the Moroccan efficiently defending his 3,000m steeplechase title.
Quebec Metropolis’s Jean-Simon Desgagnés completed thirteenth in 8:19.31. Desgagnés squeaked into the ultimate, by three one-hundredths of a second, working 8:25.28 within the semis. “I might have favored high 10 or high eight, nevertheless it’s not a nasty day,” Desgagnés mentioned after the race. “I’m happy with what I’ve completed, however there are issues I’ve to work on to be one of the best on this planet.
This was the second straight main championship remaining for Desgagnés. On the 2023 World Championships, he completed eighth. “After I come to an enormous championship just like the Olympics or world championships, I’m not right here simply to be within the remaining, I’m right here to be within the high 10. So it’s a confidence booster [to go back-to-back in major championship finals], however I need to be within the high 10.”
When requested what he thinks he must get to that high 10 degree, he responded, “I feel it’s a mix of health and technique, psychological prep… so, going into the ultimate understanding it will likely be quick, I would like to have the ability to maintain that type of tempo, and that comes with coaching … I’ve to work on that 2:40/km tempo, and have the ability to maintain it eternally, and I’ve to be able to kick, even at that tempo. It’s a mix of pace and endurance.”
Desgagnés is getting into his remaining yr of medical faculty; he plans to race on the Silesia Diamond League in Poland on Aug. 25.
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