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SPORT Wednesday 9 August 2017 PAGE | 21 PAGE | 22 PAGE | 23 Golden McLeod Balanced England Stoke City’s Ireland restores Jamaican ccana win Ashes series, back in the game, sprint pride says du Plessis thanks to Aspetar Kiprop eyes El Guerrouj’s record four world titles London Reuters sbel Kiprop, Kenya’s three-time world champion over 1,500 metres, said yester- Aday that he has come to London to equal the four world titles of the Moroccan middle-dis- tance great Hicham El Guerrouj. The 28-year-old Kiprop, a former Olympic champion, hopes to get his fourth championship at the World Athletics Championships, before he moves on to 5,000m. “I want to become the first and only Kenyan to equal El Geurrouj’s four-title mark, then I move to 5,000m,” Kiprop told Reuters at the Kenyan team hotel in central London. His 1,500m cam- paign starts tomorrow. Qatari sprinter Abdalelah Haroun celebrates after British multiple world champion Mo Farah winning the bronze medal in the men’s 400 meters will again be the favourite in the men’s 5,000m event of the 2017 IAAF World Championships at when the qualification rounds start on Wednes- the London Stadium in London yesterday. day at the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Stadium. The last Kenyan to win the 5,000m was Benjamin Limo in 2005 in Helsinki. “We have a serious challenge in the 5,000m,” Kiprop said. “I hope and pray that I will be able to fulfil my ambition in the 1,500m before setting Haroun wins bronze my eyes on this event (5,000m).” Spotakova reclaims London Nathon Allen (Jamaica) in the diagnosed with an infectious dis- Agencies final stretch.
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