An important sign for the future: U.S. runners stacked the finals of the distance races.
Jamaica was second in the medal count with 12, and Kenya had 11.The U.S. took home 29 total medals at the world championships in Doha, Qatar—14 gold, 11 silver, and four bronze—in a team performance that bodes well for the summer Olympics next year in Tokyo.U.S. has traditionally dominated the sprints and hurdles, and this year’s world meet was no exception. Four of those 29 medals came from two races: the women’s 400-meter hurdles, won by, followed closely by Sydney McLaughlin.
But in the distance events—the 800, 1500, 5,000 and 10,000 meters, the 3,000-meter steeplechase, and the marathon—the U.S. held its own. American runners won four medals in those events, fewer than the seven they won at the 2017 world championships in London and the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio. They came close, however, in several events that saw Americans on the podium in 2017: Shelby Houlihan finished fourth in the
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