MEN’S 3,000M STEEPLECHASE: Morocco’s Soufiane El Bakkali was crowned world champion in the 3,000m steeplechase. The Moroccan Olympic champion brought Morocco its first medal in this year’s World Championships.
El Bakkali finished the race in 8 minutes 25 seconds and 13 milliseconds, surpassing Ethiopian Olympic runner-up Lamecha Girma (8:26.01) and Kenya’s Conseslus Kipruto (8:27.92).
MEN’S 800M :Algeria’s Djamel Sedjati won a silver medal in the 800-meter final. The 23-year-old finished in a time of 1:44.14 behind Kenya’s Emmanuel Kipkurui, who took gold with 1:43.71. Marco Arop of Canada took bronze in a time of 1:44.28, while the only other Arab runner in the final, Algeria’s Slimane Moula, finished in fifth place.
WOMEN’S 400M HURDLERS: American Sydney McLaughlin produced one of the greatest track performances of all time on Friday by shattering her own 400 metres hurdles world record to win World Championships gold.
The Olympic champion charged home in 50.68 seconds, slashing 0.73 off her previous mark of 51.41 set at the same springy Hayward Field last month and becoming the first woman to run under 51 seconds in the event.
McLaughlin finished well clear of the Netherlands’ Femke Bol (52.27) and U.S. compatriot Dalilah Muhammad (53.13).
Cricket
England all-rounder Moeen Ali is to leave Worcestershire to return to Warwickshire when his Pears contract expires at the end of the season. Birmingham-born Moeen, 35, who was 19 when he left the Bears in 2006, captained Worcestershire to victory in the T20 Blast at Edgbaston in 2018.
He had also been linked with a move to Yorkshire, as well as Warwickshire.
But he turned down “a very attractive long deal” at Worcester to sign a three-year white-ball Bears contract.
Negotiations with Moeen, who was on a five-year deal at New Road, had continued over the weekend into Monday. But, although Yorkshire also made an offer, it ended up being a straight choice between staying at New Road or going back to his native Birmingham.
