Moroccan Runner El Bakkali Wins Gold in Olympic 3,000m Steeplechase
Moroccan athlete Soufiane El Bakkali won the gold medal on Monday in the final of the 3,000m steeplechase at the Tokyo Olympics. With a time of 8:08.90, the native of Fez beat the Ethiopian Girma and the Kenyan Kigen.
Depriving Soufiane El Bakkali of social media has paid off. The runner (3,000m steeplechase) has become an Olympic champion and saves the honor of Morocco, which until then had only collected failures.
Explosion of joy at the Olympic stadium in Tokyo. The Moroccan delegation is delighted with this performance by Soufiane El Bakkali, the 25-year-old runner who thus offers Morocco its first medal since the start of these Games.
El Bakkali becomes the second Moroccan to win a medal in this event after the bronze of Ali Ezzine in 2000 in Sydney.
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