Steeplechase runners are familiar with obstacles. On a 3,000 meter course, you need to clear 28 waist-high barriers and 7 water pits. But early on Monday night, they realized they were fighting another kind of disability. Wandered on the truck..
Fifteen men in the field turned their backs to the cameraman and shook their heads while filming a nearby woman’s triple jump. But he flirted in the disaster.
“In the last second, one way or another, one way or another, but thankfully, we didn’t realize we were there until we all overtook him,” said Evan Jager of the United States. ..
The race itself was unusually late until the final lap, with Olympic champion Morocco’s Sophian El Bakari jumping out of the final water pit and winning his first world championship in 8 minutes 25.13 seconds. Ethiopia’s Lamecha Girma finished second and Kenya’s Conseslus Kiprut finished third.
Jaeger, who won the silver medal at the 2016 Olympics and the bronze medal at the 2017 World Championships, finished 6th at 8: 29.08. A few years after suffering an injury, he returned to the season hoping to land on the podium again, but was disappointed with his results and left.
“It was a long journey,” he said. “After a few hours to get rid of my emotions, I would be very proud of myself, but now I’m pretty disappointed.”
