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Budapest 2023: Curtain Draws On Show-Stopping Championships As USA Dominate
28 Aug

Budapest 2023: Curtain Draws On Show-Stopping Championships As USA Dominate

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In the end, it was left to Femke Bol to bring down the curtain on the wonderful World Athletics Championships Budapest 23. In fittingly show-stopping style. Eight days on from falling short of the winning line in the mixed 4x400m, the Flying Dutchwoman made up a 10-metre deficit on the final leg to snatch women’s 4x400m gold for the Netherlands in the last few strides. There was also a dramatic comeback win for Jakob Ingebrigtsen in the men’s 5000m, the Norwegian clawing his way past Spain’s Mohamed Katir to bounce back from his surprise 1500m defeat. Kenya’s Mary Moraa produced another…
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Sports Ministry Commits To Helping Long Jumper Deborah Acquah Treat Injuries
25 Aug

Sports Ministry Commits To Helping Long Jumper Deborah Acquah Treat Injuries

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Deputy Minister for Youth and Sports, Evans Bobie Opoku, has told Joy Sports that his outfit will consider making funds available for long jumper Deborah Acquah to treat injuries she sustained while competing for Ghana last year. The national record holder sustained the injury during the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham last year, where she won bronze. Acquah, revealed earlier this week that a top Ghanaian official had pledged the nation’s support in catering for the injury, but failed to deliver. This resulted in her competing with pain in her achilles at the ongoing World Athletics Championships, where she unsurprisingly failed…
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Budapest Day 4: Faith Kipyegon Defends 1500m Title, Tamberi Snatches High Jump Gold
23 Aug

Budapest Day 4: Faith Kipyegon Defends 1500m Title, Tamberi Snatches High Jump Gold

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Kenya’s Faith Kipyegon cemented her place as the greatest middle distance runner of all time, storming to a 3rd world title to seal the gold medal in the women’s 1500m final in Budapest on Tuesday. Kipyegon led from the start and took off in the last lap, stopping the clock at 3:54.87s, followed by Ethiopian world junior champion, Diribe Welteji (3:55.69s) and the Netherlands’ Sifan Hassan (3:56.00) in 2nd and 3rd. The Kenyan mother of one has broken three world records this year in the 1500m, the metric mile and the 5000m, but had said she only cared about the…
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Qualification To 2023 World Athletics Championships Is A Huge Relief- Deborah Acquah
02 Feb

Qualification To 2023 World Athletics Championships Is A Huge Relief- Deborah Acquah

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Commonwealth Long Jump bronze-medalist, Deborah Acquah, says news of her qualification to the 2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest was so pleasant to hear. Her place at the biggest Athletics meet of the year was confirmed after World Athletics updated their official website with a list of qualified athletes. Deborah’s bronze medal-winning jump of 6.94m at the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham last year, according to the sport’s world governing body, was enough to participate at the meet because her mark met the official entry standard. “After the Commonwealth Games, I was made to understand that this might be for this…
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