Kenya's Abel Kipsang competes in the men's 1500m semi-finals during the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games at the Olympic Stadium in Tokyo on August 5, 2021. (Photo by Ina FASSBENDER / AFP)

Athletics

Kipsang wins Kenya’s second and last medal at World Indoor Championship

Timothy Olobulu

Published

March 20, 2022

NAIROBI, Kenya, Mar 20 – Abel Kipsang wiped out the tears from missing a medal at the Olympic Games in Tokyo as he clinched Kenya’s second medal at the World Athletics Indoor Championships, winning bronze in the men’s 1500m in Serbia on Sunday night.

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Kipsang who finished fourth at the Olympics put up a spirited sprint in the final 100m of the race to wade off Ethiopia’s Tadesse Lemi in a sprint finish as he clocked 3:33.24.

Defending champions Samuel Tefera won the race in a Championship Record time of 3:32.77 while Olympic Champion Jakob Ingebrigtsen was second for silver in 3:33.02

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