Alphonce Felix Simbu made history by becoming the first Tanzanian to win a global event gold medal at the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo.
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Alphonce Felix Simbu has snatched gold in the first photo finish at a major championship marathon, edging out German Amanal Petros in a dramatic race to the line to give Tanzania its maiden world title.
The photo finish showed the 42.195km race was decided by three hundredths of a second as Simbu surged past the diving Petros at the line, closer than the 0.05-second gap between the gold and silver medallists in the men’s 100m final on Monday.
