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Kenya lose steeplechase title at Tokyo Olympics as Kigen happy with bronze

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Men's 3000m Steeplechase - Final - Olympic Stadium, Tokyo, Japan - August 2, 2021. Getnet Wale of Ethiopia in action as he leads the race REUTERS

Kenya lost the men steeplechase title for the first time in the last nine Olympic Games as Morocco’s Soufiane El Bakkali won the title at the 2020 games in Tokyo yesterday while Benjamin Kigen won bronze.

To many though it was not shocking considering that Olympic champion Conseslus Kipruto missed the cut at the national trials and could not travel to Japan.

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