PARIS 2024: Majestic Emmanuel Wanyonyi wins gold in 800 metres
By Michael Kirwa |
Emmanuel Wanyonyi wins Kenya's third gold medal at the 2024 Paris Olympic Games after winning the 800 metres final with a time of 1:41.19
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The youngest ever Olympic 800m champion 🤯
— World Athletics (@WorldAthletics) August 10, 2024
🇰🇪's Emmanuel Wanyonyi claimed a historic gold medal by running 1:41.19 in the men's 800m final.
He only turned 20 on 1 August and is the 3rd fastest man ever over 800m 🙌 pic.twitter.com/FPaEC6owUe
The Algerian Djamel Sedjati took bronze with a time of 1:41.50 with his late surge coming at the expense of the American Bryce who finished fourth despite running a national record time of 1:41.67.
The Spaniard, Mohammed Attaoui, who went into Paris with the world’s second fastest time in the event this year, 1:42.04, finished in fifth place with a time of 1:42.08.
Tual’s efforts to keep up with Wanyonyi and later to resist attempts from Arop and Sedjati to deny him a medal drained his energy as he faded to finish sixth with a time of 1:42.14.
Botswana’s Tshepiso Masalela, the other African in the race apart from Wanyonyi and Sedjati, was 7th with a personal best time of 1:42.82.
Max Burgin, who was fourth at the end of the first lap after running the first 400 metres with a time of 50.6s, finished last in eighth with a time of 1:43.84, which would have been enough to win him the gold medal at the last Olympic Games in Tokyo three years where the Kenyan Emmanuel Kipkorir won the event’s final with a time of 1:45.06.
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