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Muhammad Rameez
Published August 24, 2023 | 02:10
Budapest, (APP – UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News – 24th Aug, 2023 ) :Norway’s Karsten Warholm extended his dominance in the men’s 400m hurdles by digging deep to win his third world title in Budapest on Wednesday.
Olympic champion Warholm clocked 46.89sec for gold, with Kyron McMaster of the British Virgin Islands taking silver in 47.34sec.
American Rai Benjamin took bronze in 47.56 seconds as defending world champion Alison Dos Santos of Brazil hit the third-last hurdle and saw her chances of a podium finish disappear, finishing fifth.
Warholm, who set the world record of 45.94sec in winning Olympic gold in Tokyo two years ago, started in his favorite lane seven, outside Benjamin. McMaster was drawn in lane eight and Dos Santos in lane nine.
With such heavy traffic around him, Warholm was unable to break away from the field, as he often does against smaller competitors.
At one stage it actually looked like Benjamin was winning at Warholm, the pair going over the seventh of the 10 obstacles step by step.
Dos Santos rattled that hurdle to effectively end his medal hopes and then Warholm dug deep.
With grimaces on his face and every tendon screaming, Warholm made a massive effort to go a meter clear as the pitch entered the home straight.
In what was arguably one of his ugliest displays of hurdling, the Norwegian strode to the line to secure a third world gold.
As Benjamin began to tire after his earlier efforts, McMaster came through for a memorable silver.
Warholm had previously won world gold in London 2017 and Doha 2019. Returning early from injury, he could only finish seventh in Eugene last year.
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