Moroccan runner Soufian El Bakkali won gold in the 3000m hurdles at the 18th World Championships in Athletics in Eugene, USA, ending Kenya’s dominance of the course.

And after what he did at the Tokyo Olympics last summer, when he became the first non-Kenyan sprinter to win the title since 1980, 26-year-old El-Bakali once again claimed he was the “king” of the race. and end 15 years of Kenyan dominance.

Al Bakali, Olympic champion in Tokyo, finished the race in 8.25:13 ahead of his Olympic runner-up Lamesh Girma (8.26:01) of Ethiopia and Kenyan Conseslus Kipruto, the defending Doha 2019 champion (8:01) 27:92 e).

Al-Bakali has managed to achieve what he has failed in his last two tournaments when he won silver in London in 2017 and bronze in Doha in 2019.

This is Morocco’s first gold since the coronation of Jawad Gharib in the 2005 Helsinki Marathon and the eleventh in the history of his international participation.

“My coronation today is about strong and continuous work for many years, after my coronation at the Olympics, I was determined to come to Eugene to win the world title, and I succeeded,” said El Bakali.

Behavior / Donia Haddad