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Published on 2025-09-20 18:29:21
Kenya’s Olympic champion Emmanuel Wanyonyi added the world crown to his collection with a hard-fought victory in the men’s 800 metres on Saturday.
Wanyonyi timed a championship record of 1min 41.86sec for gold in Tokyo, just four hundredths of a second ahead of Algeria’s fast-finishing Djamel Sedjati.
Defending champion Marco Arop of Canada had to settle for bronze in 1:41.95 in a reshuffle of the podium places with Sedjati from last year’s Paris Olympics.
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