Spain It’s one row away from adding its fifth finalist. World Athletics Championships held in Budapest finishing the ninth Dani Arce In a final of 3,000m hurdles, Moroccan Soufiane El Bakkali played his cards perfectly to secure his second consecutive gold medal, leaving Ethiopia’s Lamecha Girma, the final three-time silver, with honey on his lips.
It was a really complex final, in which the two athletes excelled, in theory at least. brand new Ethiopian universal record holder Lamecha Girma or current Moroccan Olympic champion Soufiane El Bakkali Kenyans with opponents as sophisticated as Kibiwott and Koech or especially Abyssinian Wale.
With Eliseo Martín’s historic bronze medal at the World Cups in Paris’03 looming on the horizon, the most realistic goal for the Burgos man was to secure a place in Sevilla’99 (sixth) and as a finalist like Montison himself. Osaka’07 (seventh) or sixth of Luis Miguel Martín Berlanas 20 years ago and fourth in Edmonton’01. Another Spanish athlete finished sixth in 2001 and 2005, but his involvement with doping invites us to ignore his name.
In the best moment of his career, including a personal record (8: 10.63), Arce had assured SPORT (Ibérica Press) that it would come out brilliantly and unscathed. in the beginning”, but the reality is now that he was willing to “do anything and take risks, not caring that he might be punctured or blown away”.
The race started slow with Kenyan Leonard Kipkemoi Bett setting the pace. The first thousand (2:50.41) Burgos man travels lastgives the feeling that the situation is very controlled. The problem is that it gave up too much ground, and when the group stretched that area grew to about 10 meters.
Anyway, It was clear that the final would be decided at around 2:35 in the last thousand.. Arce moved up two places after passing 1,800 but still finished third from the last just a kilometer ahead, taking the lead in Lamecha Girma and Soufiane El Grocery shows.
Arce held position until reaching ninth in the final round (8:18.31), but lacked the meters and power to beat Canadian Jean-Simon Descagnés, who set a personal record of 8,15.58 to secure the final place of the finalist. It’s a pity, because the man from Burgos was in a position to finish in the top eight.
Ahead, the show was one of those that did for a while. Girma attacked hard on the penultimate pass from the finish line and gained a notable advantage against El Bakkali on a worse grade but a much better finisher. And it had to happen. The North African reduced this disadvantage until he crossed the Abyssinian before the last estuary to reaffirm world gold. 8:03.53 behind Girma at 8:05.44 and Kenyan Abraham Kibiwott at 8:11.98.