Brazier destroys the field to clinch first 800 meters title for U.S.

Donavan Brazier stormed home and broke the world championship record to claim a ...

DOHA - Donavan Brazier stormed home and broke the world championship record to claim a first-ever world title for the United States in the men’s 800 meters on Tuesday.

Bosnia’s Amel Tuka, who won the bronze in Beijing in 2015, went one better by taking the silver, his country’s best-ever result in any event at the championship, and Kenya’s Ferguson Cheruiyot Rotich got the bronze. Brazier said he had not been distracted by the Salazar issue. “Not at all, I mean he’s not my coach,” he told reporters, adding that his coach was Pete Julian.

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