Bahraini Athletics has high hopes for the promising Winfried Motel Jaffe to place her on the medal table at the 18th World Championships in Eugene, USA when she competes in the 3000m hurdles final on Wednesday.

Bahrain have not missed the medal table in the last three tournaments and have won half of their medals in the history of the tournament. Six medals: two gold, two silver and two bronze.

Bahrain ranks second in the list of the most titled Arab countries with 13 medals: 7 gold, 3 silver and 3 bronze.

Bahrain Athletics Federation President Mohammed Abdullatif bin Jalal told AFP ahead of a trip to Eugene: “Our aim for the World Championships in Athletics is to get on the podium and snatch colored medals as Bahrain Athletics has become a tough number at the regional and continental levels.” . World and Olympic.

Bin Jalal stressed that the World Championships represent a milestone in the preparations for the 2024 Olympics in Paris, where the athletics team aims to win more flashy medals to boost the Kingdom’s Olympic harvest.

– ‘Gold medal’ –

Yaffe, 22, has garnered attention this year, especially for dropping under nine minutes twice in the two races she has entered this season, the first at Hayward Field to host the World Championship when she clocked 8:58.71 minutes in May last year, and second in the Diamond League meeting in Paris on June 18 last year in 8:56.55 minutes, the best time of the course this year.

In the race’s relatively short history, there have been eight World Championships since 2005, five different countries have won gold, and Jaffe is adamant about her country’s inclusion in the list.

“I’ve been preparing hard for this tournament and I hope it ends with a gold medal,” the world’s No. 4 3000m hurdler told AFP after she booked her ticket to the final round on Saturday.

“The race went well, I did what I expected, handled it reasonably and didn’t push too hard because I’m aiming to fight for the world title in the final round.”

Yaffe is well aware of the complexity of the task, especially in the person of Nora Giroto, defending the colors of Kazakhstan, whom she beat in the Eugene International Diamond League meeting in May on the final round.

At the time, Giberotto clocked 8:57.97 minutes and placed first ahead of Jaffe, who clocked 8:58.71 minutes.

Yaffe is looking to outplay Girotto and win her first world medal after finishing eighth at the 2017 World Championships in London, fourth at 2019 at Doha and tenth at last year’s Olympic final in Tokyo.

She also aims to become the second Arab runner to win a world title after Tunisian Habiba Laghribi, who won gold in 2011 in Daegu, South Korea, and silver in Beijing in 2015.

Yaffe’s stellar record since defending Bahrain’s colors at the age of sixteen promises her a place on the podium. She has won many local, Arabic and continental titles, and now it remains for her to decorate her record with world metal, which her soul desires to be golden.

She won the title in the 3000m hurdles at the Asian Games in Jakarta, Indonesia and achieved a double finish at the 2019 Arab and Asian Championships when she placed first in the 3000m hurdles and the 5000m. , and was close to reaching the top three at the Asian Games. Championships, where she placed third in the 1500m.