Tokyo Olympics: Morocco Wins First Gold Medal Since 2004

It is a great result for Soufiane El Bakkali, who was fourth in Rio in 2016 and has won Morocco's first gold medal since the great Hicham El Guerrouj's double in Athens in 2004.

Tokyo Olympics: Morocco Wins First Gold Medal Since 2004

It also ends Kenya's dominance of the race - they had won every gold medal since 1968 apart from the two Games they boycotted.

Soufiane El Bakkali won a gold medal for Morocco in the men's 3000m steeplechase with 8:08.90.

The Moroccan stomped in unstoppable pace in the final 200m to clinch the title in 8:08.90, the first Moroccan to ever win the water and barriers race. Ethiopian Lamecha Girma was second for silver at 8:10.38.

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