Inside Athletics - Digital Track and Field Magazine

Even Miruts Yifter did it almost forty years ago in a US race against Steve Prefontaine, so perhaps Daniel Kipchirchir Komen is not in such bad company.

The gaffe happened in the men’s 5000m at the PSD Bank Meeting in Düsseldorf last night (3), as Komen was chasing the front-running Paul Kipsiele Koech into the bell. Suddenly Komen stopped, as if he considered the race to be over, even though the clock read approximately 12:38.

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