Soufiane El Bakkali Extends Steeple Streak in Soggy Stockholm

Reigning Olympic and world steeplechase champion Soufiane El Bakkali of Morocco kept his 21-month unbeaten streak going this afternoon at Olympiastadion in Stockholm, easily winning the steeplechase at the BAUHAUS-Galan, the seventh stop of the 2023 Wanda Diamond League.  Since winning in Nairobi on 18 September, 2021, El Bakkali has won nine consecutive races including the World Athletics Championships gold medal in Eugene last July.  The last man to beat him was Kenya's Benjamin Kigen at the Weltklasse in Zürich on 9 September, 2021.

Jul 2, 2023