Kenya: No Medals for Kenya As Ethiopia Sweeps Women’s 10k At Worlds

Nairobi — Kenya missed out on a medal in the women’s 10,000m at the World Athletics Championships for the first time since 2007, as Ethiopia swept the medals, with Gudaf Tsegay clinching gold in an eventful race.

Tsegay sprinted for gold, leading compatriots Letesenbet Gidey and Ejgayehu Taye for silver and bronze after Netherlands’ Sifan Hassan slipped and fell barely 50m to the finish line as she was leading.

Hassan is seeking a historic treble with the 10,000m, 5,000m and 1500m, and with the…