Moroccan Olympic champion Soufiane El Bakkali won a second world championship title in the 3,000m steeplechase on Tuesday in Budapest, beating the new Ethiopian world record holder Lamecha Girma.
After silver in London in 2017, bronze in Doha in 2019 and gold in Eugene (Oregon, USA) in 2022, this is the fourth consecutive world medal for the 27-year-old Moroccan.
In 8 min 03 sec 53, he had to work on the last lap to get ahead of Girma (8:05.44), who had broken the world record for the specialty in Paris at the beginning of June (7:52.12), and is adorned with silver again after the Worlds in Doha, Eugene and the Olympic Games. Kenyan Abraham Kibiwot took bronze (8:11.98).
