Olympic and world champion Soufiane El-Bakkali stormed to victory earlier than an enthusiastically vocal dwelling crowd within the ultimate occasion of Sunday’s Rabat Diamond League, the three,000m steeplechase. The tall Moroccan ran 7:56.69, the eighth-fastest all-time efficiency within the occasion, solely three seconds off the world document–and it’s nonetheless early within the season.
7:56.68 🔥
Hometown boy El Bakkali delivers in Rabat with a win within the males’s 3000m steeplechase.#DiamondLeague pic.twitter.com/yXfb6pS4XQ
— World Athletics (@WorldAthletics) Could 28, 2023
It was assembly data all spherical, virtually, on Sunday in Rabat; they had been additionally set within the girls’s 1,500m (by Ethiopia’s Gudaf Tsegay, who ran 3:54.03), the ladies’s 200m (by Jamaica’s Shericka Jackson, in 21.98) and the boys’s 100 (by Fred Kerley of the U.S., in 9.94).
In different occasions, Edmonton’s Marco Arop completed fifth within the males’s 800m, in 1:46.34, which was received by Emmanuel Wanyonyi of Kenya in 1:44.36.
Olympic champion Jakob Ingebrigtsen received the reasonably sedately-paced males’s 1,500m in 3:32.59, with the younger American phenom Yared Nuguse three hundredths of a second behind him, in a PB of three:33.02 and Australia’s Ollie Hoare third in 3:33.39. World bronze medallist and Commonwealth Video games champion Mary Moraa of Kenya received the ladies’s 800m in 1:58.72.
By no means sleep on Gudaf Tsegay 😤
3:54.03.
Assembly document. World lead. #DiamondLeague pic.twitter.com/lv9fjCzJfX
— World Athletics (@WorldAthletics) Could 28, 2023
Shot putter Sarah Mitton of Liverpool, N.S., completed fifth in her occasion, with 18.56, the perfect of her 5 throws. Arop and Mitton had been the one Canadians competing in Rabat.
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The Diamond League circuit continues with the subsequent assembly, in Florence, Italy, on June 2.
