After profitable the ladies’s 5,000m gold earlier within the week, Kenya’s Beatrice Chebet made historical past on Friday within the ladies’s 10,000m, taking gold to compete the Olympic distance double. Italy’s Nadia Battocletti set a nationwide report to win silver in 30:43.35, and fan favorite Sifan Hassan of the Netherlands received her bronze of the Video games in 30:44.12.
It’s the primary time a Kenyan athlete has received two gold medals on the observe in a single Olympics, and the primary time a Kenyan has received gold within the ladies’s 10,000m since its addition to the Olympic program in Seoul 1988.
Chebet, the present world report holder within the 10,000m (28:54.15, set earlier this yr) positioned herself close to the entrance of the pack through the first few laps and remained there all through, with Battocletti within the center and Hassan operating close to the again, the place she stayed till the ultimate two laps. Chebet can also be the 2024 world cross-country champion, a title she additionally received in 2023.
The group stayed tightly bunched via many of the race, with round a dozen ladies operating carefully collectively into the ultimate laps. Chebet started to select up the tempo on the bell, adopted by Battocletti, who completed fourth within the 5,000m remaining earlier within the week. Battocletti ran a tactically good race, placing herself in a great place to strike within the remaining stretch.
With 200m to go, Hassan, the defending Olympic champion, who had solely begun shifting up from the rear within the remaining two laps of the race, started a push towards the entrance of the lead group, finally clinching third place and her second bronze medal of the Paris Olympics. (She received bronze within the 5,000 additionally.)
Hassan is making an attempt an formidable triple, competing within the 5,000m, 10,000m and the marathon at these Olympics. She can have sooner or later of relaxation on Saturday earlier than tackling the ladies’s marathon on Sunday, the ultimate day of the Video games.
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