Sifan Hassan’s pursuit of the gap triple got here to a heartbreaking finish on Day 1 of the 2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest. Main the race on the ultimate straight, Hassan’s hopes have been dashed within the closing 50 metres as she tangled with Ethiopia’s Gudaf Tsegay (the reigning 5,000m world champion), and tumbled to the bottom, lacking out on gold and a world championship medal.
Sifan Hassan 𝙛𝙖𝙡𝙡𝙨 simply metres from the road! 😱
Within the 10,000m closing, the Olympic champion and overwhelming favorite 𝙜𝙤𝙚𝙨 𝙙𝙤𝙬𝙣 and it is Gudaf Tsegay who takes the 🥇
Unbelievable drama in Budapest.#WorldAthleticsChamps pic.twitter.com/ImCegtrunh
— Eurosport (@eurosport) August 19, 2023
Hassan, who had competed within the 1,500m heats earlier within the day, positioned herself in the back of the pack till the ultimate two laps of the ten,000m. The race began at a leisurely tempo, with the leaders coming by way of the primary kilometre in 3:38 and the 5,000m mark in 16:28. This allowed Hassan to protect her velocity till it counted. With 300 metres left, Hassan made her transfer on the skin, however Tsegay and Letesenbet Gidey countered, staying on her heels. Victory appeared inside attain for Hassan till, in an try and pressure Tsegay huge, she stumbled and fell simply 30 metres from the end line.
Tsegay secured her first world title within the 10,000m occasion, clocking a 59-second closing lap to cross the road in 31:27.18. Capitalizing on Hassan’s misfortune, Gidey clinched silver in 31:28.16, whereas Ejgayehu Taye accomplished an Ethiopian podium sweep with bronze in 31:28.31.
Hassan rose from the bottom and stood in disbelief, crossing the end line in eleventh place (31:53.35).
Her subsequent look on the observe is scheduled for Sunday night within the girls’s 1,500m semi-final.
Not Dutch luck
Moments later, within the blended 4x400m relay closing, Dutch athlete Femke Bol suffered a fall simply 10 metres earlier than the end line, dropping the baton and shattering The Netherlands’ hopes for an additional gold medal.
The Dutch quartet had led the relay race till the ultimate alternate, when Isaya Klein Ikkink handed the baton to Olympic and world medallist Bol. She managed to create a small hole towards Workforce USA within the opening 200m of the anchor leg, however USA’s Alexis Holmes progressively reeled her in through the closing 200m, almost overtaking Bol earlier than Bol’s heartbreaking fall.
Catastrophe for the Dutch once more! 😮
Within the blended 4x400m relay, Femke Bol falls simply metres from the road.
The USA declare 🥇 and set a world document, Nice Britain take 🥈 and the Czech Republic 🥉#WorldAthleticsChamps pic.twitter.com/JvsAPEnzFX
— Eurosport (@eurosport) August 19, 2023
Workforce USA secured the blended 4x400m gold in a brand new world-record time of three:08.80. Sadly, The Netherlands crew was disqualified as a result of when Bol fell, the baton rolled throughout the end line forward of her. (If it had fallen earlier than the end line, Bol may legally have picked it up and crossed the road with it.) Workforce GB claimed silver with a nationwide document of three:11.06, adopted by the Czech Republic taking bronze in 3:11.98.
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