Barega upsets Cheptegei for 10K gold, 1st Tokyo track medal

By NBC Olympics

Published July 30, 2021 11:43 pm

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Ethiopia’s Selemon Barega, the 2019 world silver medalist, kicked early and held off world record-holder Joshua Cheptegei of Uganda to win men’s 10,000m gold, the first track and field medal of the Tokyo Olympics.

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