Ethiopian monitor star Lamecha Girma is recovering after a scary scene within the men’s 3000-meter steeplechase closing the place the present world report holder was taken off the monitor on a stretcher after taking place within the closing lap of Wednesday’s race.
The 23-year-old Olympian was jostling for third place within the closing lap of the race when he tried to clear a hurdle. His again leg appeared to catch it, inflicting him to go down onerous as the remainder of the pack made their well past him.
Lamecha Girma of Ethiopia is stretchered from the monitor after falling within the Males’s 3000m steeplechase closing. (Tim Clayton/Corbis through Getty Photos)
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Girma laid immobile on the monitor at Stade de France after showing to hit the again of his head after clipping the hurdle.
He was tended to by a number of medics earlier than a neck brace was positioned on him. He was then taken off the monitor on a stretcher.
The Worldwide Olympic Committee (IOC) offered a constructive replace on Girma Thursday.
Ethiopia’s Lamecha Girma lies on the monitor in the course of the males’s 3000m steeplechase closing of the athletics occasion on the 2024 Olympic Video games at Stade de France on August 7, 2024. (BEN STANSALL/AFP through Getty Photos)
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“We perceive he’s in fine condition and he’s okay, he’s recovering,” the IOC stated in an announcement, via Reuters.
Girma was the 2020 Tokyo Olympics defending silver medalist within the males’s 3000-meter steeplechase. He’s presently the world report holder as effectively, with a time of seven:52.11 which he set in Paris in 2023.
Lamecha Girma competes in the course of the males’s 3000m steeplechase warmth on the 2024 Olympic Video games on Aug. 5, 2024. (Lui Siu Wai/Xinhua through Getty Photos)
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Soufiane El Bakkali of Morocco received the gold medal, adopted by American Kenneth Rooks for the silver and Abraham Kibiwot of Kenya for bronze.
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