Diamond League: Soufiane El Bakkali 2nd of the 3000m Steeple at the Xiamen meeting

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The double Olympic and Moroccan world champion, Soufiane El Bakkali, came in the 2nd position of the 3000m Steeple event, at the Xiamen meeting in China, as part of the Diamond League.

With an 8min 06SEC 66/100 time, El Bakkali was preceded by the Ethiopian Samuel Firewu (8min 05sec 61/100).

The Kenyan Simon Kiprop Koech arrived in 3rd position in 8min 07sec 12/100.

Soufiane El Bakkali, who won the diamond league in 2022, managed to keep its Olympic title over 3,000 m steeplechase at the Paris Olympic Games in 2024, after having won the gold medal previously at the Tokyo Olympics.

He also won the gold medal at the world championships in 2023 in Budapest and in 2022 in Eugene, in the United States.