Kenya’s Kumari Taki Dives (Falls?) Across Line To Win Crazy World Junior 1500 Title
by LetsRun.com
July 21, 2016
The men’s 1500 at the World Junior championships today featured a crazy finish as Kenya’s Kumari Taki, who was totally tying, ended up diving / falling across the line, just barley won gold.
Watch it for yourself below (we’ve set it up so you only have to watch the last lap).
https://youtu.be/gf2WPrTaKmE?t=4m30s
Results
| 1500 m | 21 July | |||||||||
| 1 | Kumari Taki | KEN | 6 May 99 | 3:48.63 | « » | |||||
| 2 | Teresa Tolosa | ETH | 3:48.77 | « » | ||||||
| 3 | Anthony Kiptoo | KEN | 19 Aug 97 | 3:49.00 | « » | |||||
| 4 | Baptiste Mischler | FRA | 23 Nov 97 | 3:49.52 | « » | |||||
| 5 | Ajay Kumar Saroj | IND | 1 May 97 | 3:49.52 | « » | |||||
| 6 | Matthew Ramsden | AUS | 23 Jul 97 | 3:50.50 | « » | |||||
| 7 | Jordi Torrents | ESP | 25 Sep 97 | 3:50.93 | « » | |||||
| 8 | Asres Guadie | ETH | 3:50.95 | « » | ||||||
| 9 | Jakob Ingebrigtsen | NOR | 19 Sep 00 | 3:51.09 | « » | |||||
| 10 | Josh Kerr | GBR | 8 Oct 97 | 3:51.23 | « » | |||||
| 11 | Elzan Bibic | SRB | 8 Jan 99 | 3:51.58 | « » | |||||
| 12 | Ayoub Sniba | MAR | 5 Apr 97 | 3:55.95 | ||||||
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