Creve Armando Machava won the men’s 400-metre
hurdles final on Friday to seal Mozambique’s first-ever Islamic Solidarity
Games gold medal.The 21-year-old remained calm throughout a tight race at
Baku’s Olympic Stadium to edge to victory in a time of 50.73 seconds, ahead of
Senegalese silver medallist Amadou Ndiaye by 0.21 seconds.Ndiaye came on
strongly near the end to power past another Mozambique athlete Kurt Couto, who
faded badly.The 32-year-old Couto clung on in 50.97s to take bronze.
Moroccan middle-distance star Rababe Arafi
successfully defended her women’s 1 500-metre title after pulling away from
Turkey’s Meryem Akdag to secure victory.The 26-year-old finished ninth in the
world championship final two years ago and also made the Olympic final, and she
cruised to gold despite not troubling her personal best.Arafi won in four
minutes and 18.82 seconds, over a whole second clear of Akdag, who clinched
silver in 4:19:91.Algeria’s Amina Bettiche (4:21:29) threw herself forward to
snatch bronze on the line from Bahrain’s Tigist Gashaw, who missed out on the
podium by just 0.02s.Arafi’s gold is Morocco’s fifth athletics title of the
Games in Baku.Azerbaijan clinched yet another track and field gold on Friday as
Elena Chebanu clocked 24.69 seconds to win the women’s 200-metre T12 disability
final.Chebanu won comfortably from Indonesia’s Endang Sitorus, who sealed
silver, while Morocco’s Meryem En-Nourhi grabbed bronze.
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