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World record holder Beatrice Chepkoech will seek to bounce back to winning ways at the World Athletics Indoor Tour Gold meeting in Lieven as she takes on Gudaf Tsegay.
Reigning World 3000m Steeple chase record holder Beatrice Chepkoech will be hoping to bounce back to winning ways at the Meeting Hauts-de-France Pas-de-Calais Trophée EDF, a World Athletics Indoor Tour Gold meeting in Lievin on Saturday.
The World 3000m SC silver medallist opened her indoor tour with the 1500m race at the ORLEN Copernicus Cup where she finished fifth in the Ethiopian-dominated race.
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Her greatest opposition will come from Ethiopia’s Gudaf Tsegay, a two-time world champion, and the world indoor champion Lemlem Hailu.
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ATHLETICS Beatrice Chepkoech opens up on her track rivalry with Kenyan-born Bahraini Winfred Yavi
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Hirut Meshesha, the recent winner in Metz, and 2021 world U20 5000m champion Mizan Alem have also been confirmed for the race.
In another race, Lamecha Girma will be looking to take on the rarely run 2000m where he has sweet memories of the place. Last year in Lievin, Girma stopped the clock at 7:23.81 to break the long-standing world indoor 3000m record.
Outdoors, he went on to break the world steeplechase record and the Ethiopian 1500m record (3:29.51).
He has already opened his season where he won the 2000m race at the World Indoor Tour Gold meeting in Boston last weekend, setting a meeting record of 7:29.09.
His 2000m split from that race (4:58.44) was almost identical to the one he recorded when setting the world indoor 3000m record (4:58.38).
But in Saturday’s standalone 2000m race, the mark he’ll be aiming at is Kenenisa Bekele’s world indoor best of 4:49.99. Rising Ethiopians Adisu Girma and Melese Nberet will join him on the start line, as well as World University Games 1500m champion Benoit Campion and Olympic 1500m finalist Charles Grethen.
The men’s 3000m field will see Olympic 10,000m champion Selemon Barega, who ran a world-leading 7:25.82 in Torun earlier this week, take on world 5km champion Hagos Gebrhiwet, two-time world indoor 1500m champion Samuel Tefera, Getnet Wale, and Biniam Mehary, who set a world U20 indoor 1500m record in Torun.
The women’s 1500m brings together the top two finishes from Torun, Freweyni Hailu and Diribe Welteji, both of whom cracked 3:56 there, as well as the 800m winner from that meeting, Habitam Alemu, and rising Ethiopian Birke Haylom.
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In the men’s event, world bronze medallist Narve Gilje Nordas of Norway gets his 2024 campaign under way against a field that includes Spain’s Adel Mechaal, Ethiopia’s Taddese Lemi, Kenya’s Vincent Keter and France’s Azzedine Habz.
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