Mohamed Katir has given a strong punch on the table of the World Cups in Budapest with an extraordinary silver in the final of 5,000 meters in which he has only given in the last meters by 14 hundredths against a Jakob Ingebrigtsen who came from behind. After the race, the Norwegian denied greeting the Spanish-Moroccan in a new demonstration that he is as extraordinary running as he is pathetic on a human level.
With the memory still fresh of Adri Ben’s magnificent fourth position on Sunday in the 800 metres, the 12 and a half laps around the track were presented as the last opportunity for Spain to add a medal to the four golds of the athletic march that keep the selection in third position in the medal table.
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In addition to the presence of newcomer Ouassim Oumaiz, all eyes were on Mohamed Katir after his premature elimination in the 1,500 semifinals in a test in which the best Spanish position was Alberto Garcia’s fourth place in Edmonton’01- The other great defeated although less, the Norwegian Jakob Ingebrigtsen was looking for gold to get out graceful after falling into the ‘milqui’ at the hands of Josh Kerr, then a clubmate of a Jake Wightman who ‘snacked’ him last year in Eugene.
Very moody and as if angry with the world after a very hard preparation in Sierra Nevada, Katir took the final as a revalidationas an opportunity to show that the magnificent records he achieves with hares in the big meetings also translate into medals like the bronze he achieved in the 1,500 of Eugene.
The final began to trantran in the first 600 meters with Katir in the wake of Ingebrigtsen at the bottom of the group until the Kenyan Ishmael Rokiito Kipkurui (18 years old) escaped and passed the 1,000m (2:46.56). Despite never going under 13 minutes, the group took it seriously and Ugandan Oscar Chelimo sped up the group, who in 2000 he was six seconds behind the leader (5:29.34).
Kipkurui looked back more and more and the ‘Ethiopian army’ ended the illusions of the Kenyan with a very strong rhythm to hunt him down in the middle of the test and print a different march to the final to cover the third thousand in 2: 37.57 (8: 8: 13.11) with serious problems already for the Norwegian Nordas (bronze in 1,500) and for Oumaiz.
The adopted Muleño was hesitant without knowing what to do when passing through 4,000 (10:49.71). With two laps to go, everything was open and Katir stuck behind Ingebrigtsen and in the last pass through the finish line he turned those doubts into anger with a brutal change. He took a few meters and faced the straight first, but the Norwegian reacted and surpassed him by 14 hundredths with 13:11.30. What a big money! The bronze went to the Kenyan Jacob Prop (13:12.28) and Oumaiz was 16th with 13:31.99.
2023-08-27 18:45:49
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