Sofiane El Bakkali won, for the second consecutive time, the gold medal at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, after the first at the Tokyo 2020 Games, thus offering Morocco its first medal in this tournament, and the eighth gold medal in the history of the Kingdom’s participation in this world event.
World and Olympic champion Sofiane El Bakkali received a financial grant worth 200 million centimes after winning the gold medal in the 3000 meters steeplechase last night, Wednesday, at the Olympic Games.
The Moroccan Olympic Committee will pay the reward to El-Bakali according to a predetermined schedule, which corresponds to the same value that was approved during the last Olympic Games, in the Japanese capital, Tokyo.
The Olympic Committee had determined the subsidies as follows:
*200 million centimes for the gold medalist
*125 million centimes for the silver medalist
*75 million centimes for the bronze medalist
Al-Bakali brought Morocco’s total gold medals at the Olympic Games to 8, won respectively by Nawal El Moutawakel (400m hurdles) in 1984 in Los Angeles, Said Aouita (5,000m) in 1984 in Los Angeles and Ibrahim Boutayeb (10,000m) in 1984. 1988 in Seoul, Khaled Al-Sakah (10,000m) in 1992 in Barcelona, Hicham El Guerrouj (1,500m and 5,000m) in 2004 in Athens, Sofiane El Bakkali “3000m steeplechase” in 2020 in Tokyo.
Al-Bakali became the second runner in Olympic history to win the 3,000-meter steeplechase gold medal back-to-back, and the third runner to win the gold medal twice.
