World Indoor Championships Day 2 Recap: Elle St. Pierre Is A World Champion, Josh Kerr Gets His Crown On Home Soil, Grant Holloway Defends His Crown, Femke Bol WR!
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🗓️ 3 March 2024
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
CITIUS MAG's Anderson Emerole reports from Glasgow, Scotland with a recap of Day 2 of the World Indoor Championships.
– Elle St. Pierre became the first U.S. woman to win the World Indoor 3000m title as she kicked down 10,000m world champion Gudaf Tsegay to claim gold. The win comes just 364 days after giving birth last March.
– 1500m world champion Josh Kerr got the 3000m world title on home soil – just .61 ahead of Yared Nuguse, who earned his first global championship medal.
– Femke Bol lowered her own indoor 400m world record to 49.17!
– Grant Holloway extended his nine-year winning streak in the 60m hurdles to claim his second World Indoor Title
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📰 You can read our full preview of all the sprints, distance and field event action here: https://citiusmag.com/articles/world-athletics-indoor-championships-preview-athletes-storylines-matchups-to-watch
📆 All the action concludes Sunday, March 3. Most finals will be between 2 pm and 5 pm E.T. A full timetable of events can be found here.
💻 The whole championships is streaming live on Peacock (subscription required). The only live TV window will be Sunday, 2-5 pm E.T., on CNBC. You can find a full streaming/TV schedule here.
🔜 We'll be sharing Anderson's daily recaps and dispatches from Scotland on the CITIUS MAG Podcast feed and YouTube channel.
Keep tabs on the CITIUS MAG YouTube channel as he'll be uploading tons of interviews from the mixed zone there. We'll be sharing live updates on Twitter/X; Instagram and Threads all throughout the weekend.
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| 0:29.0 | Day two of the 2024 World Indoor Championships in Glasgow, Scotland is in the books and I mean this day is extremely hard to conceptualize, extremely hard to communicate how insane all the performances across the board were. |
| 0:43.0 | Then we had the 3,000s, we had the 400s, the 60 meter |
| 0:46.0 | dash, the 60 meter hurdles. |
| 0:48.0 | We saw world records, American records, |
| 0:50.0 | championship records, I mean, everything went down on just the second day. We still have another |
| 0:54.1 | day to go, but I'm going to start off with the women's 3,000 meters. I don't even know if this was the best |
| 0:58.7 | event, but this was one for the books. Elliei Saint Pierre coming back from giving birth last year, |
| 1:05.9 | got the win, got the gold medal over Goudasagai, |
| 1:09.2 | running 8 minutes, 20.87 seconds, |
| 1:12.3 | again, for the gold medal, literally getting the win in just the last |
| 1:16.4 | couple meters in that home street, taking down Goudof Segyi, and that performance moved |
| 1:20.9 | to number three all time in the history of the 3,000 meters, |
| 1:24.8 | only behind Gensib de Baba, as well as Goudaf Seagai. |
| 1:27.6 | Now, Ella St. Pier, she is on a role this year, right? |
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