Nairobi — Kenya missed out on a medal within the girls’s 10,000m on the World Athletics Championships for the primary time since 2007, as Ethiopia swept the medals, with Gudaf Tsegay clinching gold in an eventful race.
Tsegay sprinted for gold, main compatriots Letesenbet Gidey and Ejgayehu Taye for silver and bronze after Netherlands’ Sifan Hassan slipped and fell barely 50m to the end line as she was main.
Hassan is looking for a historic treble with the ten,000m, 5,000m and 1500m, and with the 10k gone, she’s going to now hope for higher luck within the different two.
Gidey clocked 31:27.18 as she steamed previous Hassan sprawling on the ground and world file holder Gidey adopted in second, with a season’s quickest time of 31:28.16. Taye earned bronze in 31:28.31.
Irene Kimais was Kenyas’s finest performer within the race, coming residence a distant fourth in 31:32.19, additionally her quickest time this season.
Agnes Jebet completed sixth whereas Grace Nawowuna, the third quickest lady on the planet this yr, completed a dissapiinting ninth.