Tanzania’s Alphonce Felix Simbu produced a savage dip at the line to snatch world marathon gold from Germany’s Amanal Petros in Tokyo on Monday. Simbu and Eritrea-born Petros were both clocked at 2hr 09min 48sec in the most dramatic of endings for the longest event of the world championships in the Japanese capital, the Tanzanian adjudged to have finished three-hundredths ahead.
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First-ever Tanzanian gold as Simbu dips past Petros in world marathon
