Renew: 16/07/2022 23:24
Issued by: 16/07/2022, 22:18

Eugene (USA) – World record holder Letesenbet Gidey of Ethiopia has become world champion in the 10,000 meter run. Defending champion and Olympic champion Sifan Hassan of the Netherlands finished fourth. In the finish, Kenyan pair Hellen Obiri and Margaret Chelimo Kipkemboi were even stronger. Polish hammer thrower Pawel Fajdek won his fifth consecutive world title, this time with 81.98 meters.

African women runners set the pace in the second half of the race. Hassanová, an Ethiopian with Dutch skin color, who took a long break after the Olympics and only completed one smaller race this year, remains in the lead group and waits. The two-time Olympic champion from Tokyo last year attacked in the final laps and had plenty of pace early in the finish line, but didn’t hold on to medal positions. That is 49 percent of the precious metal.

The 24-year-old Gidey won in the best time of the season 30:09.94, winning his first major gold after silver at the 2019 World Championships and last year’s Olympic bronze. Obiri continued his 5000m world title from 2017 and 2019 with silver in the top ten. Another Kenyan, Kipkemboi, added bronze to his three-year-old world silver in the top five. All the medalists were within thirteen hundred in a thrilling finish.

Fajdek, a bronze medalist at last year’s Olympics in Tokyo, confirmed that the world championships were good for him. In the third series, he sent a two-centimeter hammer to 82 meters, where no one had reached before this season. It was a winning performance. The Polish doubles were confirmed by Olympic champion Wojciech Nowicki, who threw 81.03 and took second place. The third man from today’s competition, Norway’s Eivind Henriksen, also took the podium last year in Tokyo. He continued his Olympic silver medal with world bronze with an achievement of 80.87 meters.

With his fifth world title in a single discipline, Fajdek is closing in on legendary pole vaulter Sergej Bubko, who won six in a row between 1983 and 1997. The 33-year-old Polish hammer thrower will have another chance to claim world gold next year, when the WC will take place in Budapest.

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