Kenya's Hyvin Jepkemoi secures 3000m steeplechase title

Kenya's Hyvin Jepkemoi has won the gold medal in the women's 3000m steeplechase event at the World Athletics Championships in Beijing.

After a slow start to the final, India's Lalita Babar stretched the field out with a quick middle kilometre, before Jepkemoi started to close the gap.

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Jepkemoi, Habiba Ghribi of Tunisia and Germany's Gesa Krause were all in contention coming onto the finishing straight as Babar dropped back, but the Kenyan kicked hard to move away from her rivals, finishing in 9:19.11.

Ghribi clinched the silver, while Krause's time of 9:19.25 handed her the bronze and a new personal best.