BUDAPEST, Aug 26 (Reuters) - Canada's Marco Arop foxed his rivals with a radical change of tactics and then poured on the pace to win a brilliant 800 metres World Championship gold on Saturday.
Arop, the bronze medallist last year, kept his foot down to win comfortably in 1:44.24.
Now it's going to be hard to beat a gold medal - I'll just have to repeat it, I guess."
"Before the race my coach told me I could race to win or race for a medal.
I said I wanted to win," said Pattison, who was the second-slowest coming into the nine-man final field.
Persons:
Marco Arop foxed, Kenya's Emmanuel Wanyonyi, Ben Pattison, Britain's, Adrian Ben, Arop, Eugene I, Pattison, Josh Kerr, Mitch Phillips, Pritha Sarkar, Ken Ferris
Organizations:
Thomson
Locations:
BUDAPEST, Sudan, Eugene