Norah Jeruto won gold in the 3,000m hurdles at the World Athletics Championships in record time. Photo: REUTERS / Mike Segar
Exhausted but happy after completing the 3,000m hurdles in a record time of 8: 53.02, Norah Jeruto26, she found a fun way to celebrate her gold medal in the World Athletics Championships which takes place in the city of Eugene, in Oregon County, United States: he threw himself into a pit with water in the center to celebrate and, at the same time, face the scorching heat.
The Kenyan-born athlete who recently started representing Kazakhstan, jumped straight into the water hole after crossing the finish line. She was not alone: a moment later, she was joined by her Ethiopian rivals Werkuha Getachew, who took the silver, and Mekides Abebe, who took the bronze.
As if that were not enough, Legend, the mascot of the World Cuphe was no exception and also dived alongside Jeruto, who gave Kazakhstan the first gold in its history in a World Athletics Championships, after two silvers and three bronzes.
“The weather conditions were good. I enjoyed my race today. At the starting line I was afraid of my Ethiopian friends. They are champions like me, so I was afraid of them. I tried to do my best to win the race. It wasn’t easy. it was very difficult”, analyzed then enjoy the dip.
Hayward Field’s thermometer reached 33 degrees. To cool down, many athletes have frozen various parts of the body before the competition. Others wore dark glasses during competitions and eventually applied hot water packs as well.
Norah Jeruto won gold in the 3,000m hurdles at the World Athletics Championships in record time. Photo: Carmen Mandato / AFP.
The 3,000-meter hurdles were one of two medal events on a night when the stands were half-empty. Chinese Feng Bin was the surprise winner in the discus throw, beating Croatian Sandra Perkovic, who settled for silver, and Olympic champion Valerie Allman, who saved bronze.
World Athletics Championships 2022: two cases of doping
The Kenyan Lorenzo Cherono and the American Randolph Ross have been provisionally suspended and will not be able to compete at the World Athletics Championships held in Eugene, Oregon, where they became the first cases of doping in the event.
The Athletic Unit Integrity (AIU) confirmed the sanction that prevented them from entering the ring on Sunday 17 July, when Cherono was supposed to compete in the marathon and Ross would compete in the 400-meter heats.
Lawrence Cherono, from Kenya, when he won the Boston Marathon in 2019. Photo: AP.
In a statement, the AIU explained that the Kenyan tested positive trimetazidinea drug that is usually used to prevent angina pectoris that appears on the list of banned substances and that was detected in a control he was subjected to on May 23.
The AIU said it was notified of the positive of the 33-year-old winner of the Boston and Chicago marathons in 2019, and fourth at the Tokyo Olympics last year, by the laboratories of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) on Tuesday, when Cherono went to Eugene. The athlete was informed of his situation as soon as he arrived in the United States and filed an appeal on Friday which was unsuccessful.
Randolph Ross was suspended for “tampering with anti-doping procedures. Photo: REUTERS / Lucy Nicholson.
Ross, 21, a member of the 4x400m relay who won gold at the Tokyo Olympics (although he only played the knockout stage), was suspended for “manipulate anti-doping procedures” to the skip a checkpoint and suffered the same fate, or bad luck in this case, as the entity explained by its Kenyan colleague.
With information from AP.
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Source: Clarin
