3000m Steeplechase Men: Lone-running Birech beats Koech with world lead

A bold piece of front-running from Jairus Birech brought the defending Diamond Race champion an impressive victory over a raft of fellow Kenyans in a world leading time of 8:05.36. Birech picked up where he left off in 2014 as he broke clear after 2km and strode away from Beijing Olympic bronze medallist Paul Koech and Conseslus Kipruto, the 2013 world silver medallist, to win by more than six seconds. Koech fought hard to stay in touch but had to be satisfied with second in 8:11.39 while Kipruto was another three seconds back in 8:14.59 as Kenyans filled the top eight spots.