Canada’s Jean-Simon Desgagnés raced to gold in 8:30.14 within the males’s 3,000m steeplechase regardless of falling as he tackled the ultimate water bounce on the Pan Am Video games in Santiago, Chile on Saturday. Desgagnés blasted forward of his closest contenders, American athlete Daniel Michalski, who completed greater than six seconds in the back of in 8:36.47, adopted by means of bronze medallist Carlos San Martin of Colombia in 8:41.59.
Quebec’s Desgagnés was once additionally the 2017 U20 Pan Am Video games champion, and has had an implausible season. He ran a PB and a brand new file for Quebec within the males’s 3,000-metre steeplechase in 8:17.40 seconds, on the Gyulai Istvén Memorial in Székesfehérvár, Hungary, his 3rd PB of the season after operating 13:37.67 within the 5,000 in March and the 1,500 in 3:38.50 in June.
“Going away with a medal in my first multi-sport Video games is fantastic,” a overjoyed Desgagnés instructed Athletics Canada. “I had a bit technical issue within the ultimate 400 metres, however I stored elevating myself again up and were given away with a gold medal.”
Heading into the race, Desgagnés made no secret of his goal to try for the win. “The objective when getting into the race was once a victory,” he famous. I might have consoled myself with a podium, however the principle goal was once to win,” he instructed media post-race. “To do it in any such convincing means displays that I’m dominant at the world scene.”
Desgagnés was once a full-time pupil this 12 months, finishing a grasp’s stage in immunology and renal transplantation at Laval.
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Tokyo 202o Olympian, B.C.’s Alycia Butterworth additionally raced to a medal within the ladies’s 3000m steeple on Saturday, claiming silver in 9:40.86. Butterworth completed lower than one and a part seconds in the back of Argentina’s Belen Casetta. “Within the ultimate stretch, I used to be satisfied I may struggle again from 3rd to complete seconds,” Butterworth stated. “Santiago did an important task webhosting.
Canadian monitor and box athletes carried out exceptionally neatly this 12 months’s Pan Am Video games, taking 9 medals in monitor and box occasions, together with 4 gold, 3 silver and two bronze. For complete effects, head right here.