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Lagat defends 3000m title

Published by Tribune on Mon, 12 Mar 2012


BERNARD Lagat won his third 3,000-meter world indoor title Sunday, pushing free with 100 meters to go to beat Kenyan rivals Augustine Choge and Edwin Soi.Favorite Mo Farah was supposed to make it a straightforward duel with the American, but he failed to get into the medals and finished fourth. The Briton beat Lagat in a stirring 5,000 finish at the world outdoor championships in August.And at 37, Lagat still has the finishing kick of runners half his age.'It is not dying away,' he said.Lagat fully knew the Kenyans were going to make the race and refused to fall back and be surprised by a sudden breakaway. So when the final rush came, he was prepared.'I am going to stay here because those guys are strong,' Lagat said he thought to himself.In the women's long jump, Brittney Reese jumped a championship record 7.23 meters on her last attempt to push American teammate Janay Deloach into the silver-medal position with 6.98. Shara Proctor took bronze with a British national record of 6.89 meters.'I decided to get my confidence up and get the crowd involved,' Reese said of her final attempt. 'My coach told me to go and get it, and I went out and got it. I had to go out and bust the big one.'Lagat and Reese pushed the U.S. gold medal haul to seven overall early in the final day. No other nation has more than one.The Kenyan finished in a world leading 1 minute, 58.83 seconds to beat Nataliya Lupo of Ukraine and Erica Moore of the United States.In the women's 800, 2008 Olympic champion Pamela Jelimo put years of physical problems behind her to take on the whole field from halfway and again became the front-runner she once was.
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