💭 An Ethnic Tigrayan Ethiopian marathon runner Teshome Mekonen Marks Third-Place Finish by staging a daring protest against atrocities in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region when he crossed the line at the New York City half-marathon on Sunday,
Ethiopia topped the table with four gold medals, three silver and two bronze. United States finished second with three golds, seven silver and nine bronze, with third spot going to Belgium with two gold medals.
💭 Women’s 800m Ajee Wilson Gold and Freweyni Hailu Silver || ፍሬወይኒ ኃይሉ የወርቅ ሜዳሊያ ወሰደች
Ethiopia’s Freweyni Hailu was second with her season’s best 2:00.54 second
Barega, Tefera and Wilson bag gold medals on Day 3 of the world Indoor championships Inbox
The final day had three middle distance finals, the women’s 800 meters, the men’s 3000 meters, and the men’s 1,500 meters. This column was written by Justin Lagat on day 3 of the World Indoor Championships in Belgrade, Serbia.
The morning session of Day 3 of the world indoor championships in Belgrade belonged to the Ethiopians as they finished 1-2 in the men’s 3000m placing their nation at the top of the medal table after a third gold medal. The two protagonists who have always been chasing each other down to finish in the top two positions in a number of the world indoor tour events leading up to the world indoor championships showed that they have all along been in their own class.
The race that had appeared to be a battle between the Ethiopians and the Kenyans mid-way as runners from the two nations occupied the first four places quickly turned into a familiar scene of a single file where Selemon Barega takes the lead and Lamecha Girma follows in hot pursuit.
Barega held off Girma to win the race in 7:41.38 against 7:41.63. Marc Scott of Great Britain finished strongly overtaking the two Kenyans and taking the bronze medal in 7:42.02.
During the afternoon session, Samuel Tefera added another fourth gold medal for Ethiopia in the men’s 1500m event. During the race, Kenya’s Abel Kipsang had taken to the lead for the first part of the race before moving a little to the outside lane and letting Jakob Ingebrigtsen of Norway overtake on the inside to continue the lead.
With less than two laps to go, Tefera placed himself on the heels of Ingebrigtsen and the pace quickened a little bit as the latter seemed to be aiming to shake off the competition before the final bend.
Tefera stuck behind Ingebrigtsen and then moved to overtake at the last bend before he sprinted to win the race in a new championship record of 3:32.77. Ingebrigtsen was second in 3:33.02 as Abel Kipsang came strongly to finish third in 3:33.36.
💭 Gudaf Tsegay’s compatriots Axumawit Embaye and Hirut Meshesha bring home 🥈 and 🥉 to deliver the first ever medal sweep in any event at the 18th World Athletics Indoor Championships held from 18 to 20 March 2022 in Belgrade, Serbia.
👉 Axumite Ethiopia Completed Historic 1500m World Championship Sweep.
Yesterday, another Axumite, Lemlem won 🥇 Gold in the women’s 3,000m. 😲