After sharing the lead for a majority of the race, Gabriela DeBues-Stafford finishes shy of the rostrum in what was a ultimate lap dash to finish the ladies’s 3,000m.
What a race! 🇨🇦⚡️
Canada’s Gabriela DeBues-Stafford simply misses out on the ladies’s 3000m podium on the World Athletics indoor championships with a 4th place end
Fellow Canadian Julie-Anne Staehli finishes in 18th pic.twitter.com/SCZbE6mqel
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DeBues-Stafford made her transfer round 500m to go to get herself able for a ultimate lap dash. When it got here all the way down to the ultimate 100m, she was unable to get round Ethiopia’s Ejgayehu Taye and Elinor Purrier St. Pierre of the U.S. to safe a spot on the rostrum, ending fourth in 8:42.89. Lemlem Hailu of Ethiopia gained the race in 8:41.82, with Purrier St. Pierre taking house the silver and bronze to the pre-race favorite, Taye (8:42.23).
The race was congested, with 20 runners on a 200m monitor. It began at a moderately pedestrian tempo till about one mile in, when the Ethiopian duo started to choose up the tempo from the entrance. DeBues-Stafford held her personal and positioned herself able to medal within the ultimate few laps.
DeBues-Stafford was sixth within the 1,500m on the 2019 World Championship in Doha and was fifth in the identical self-discipline on the Tokyo Olympics.
DeBues-Stafford has had a breakout season on the indoor monitor, breaking a number of Canadian indoor information over 3,000 and 5,000m. Her 5,000m document set in Boston earlier this yr, set a North American 5,000m document (14:31.38).
Lucknow, Ont. native Julie-Anne Staehli was with the principle pack of 20 via 1,600m however ended up ending 18th in 8:58.73.
