Turkey wins his first ever World Championship gold in the 200m

[Böri]

Turkish sprinter Ramil Guliyev shocked a class field in the men’s 200m final at the World Championships when he won his adopted country’s first ever gold medal on Thursday night at the London Stadium.

With the world champion Usain Bolt missing through retirement, the race was wide open for a new name to write themselves into the history books, although the pre-race favourite was South Africa’s Wayde van Niekerk, who had destroyed the field in the 400m final on Wednesday night to top the podium.

And all eyes were focused on Botswana’s Issac Makwala, who had been disqualified from the 400m final because the IAAF had ruled that he was too ill to compete, having apparently suffered from a bout of norovirus.

But it was Guliyev who grabbed the race by the scruff of its neck, taking a lead out of the bend that he never looked like giving up, taking the title in a relatively slow of 20.09. Van Niekerk held on for silver, holding off the challenge of Jereem Richards of Trinidad and Tobago, who took bronze.
https://www.thenational.ae/sport/gul...-200m-1.618717

He is Azerbaijani originally. Fellow country

[Böri]

[Catkin]

Congratulations

[Petros Houhoulis]

If he was of Syrian descent you would have been eating your guts.