Second in her semi-final the day before, beating her best time this season, Noélie Yarigo finished in third place in the final this Sunday March 3 won by the Ethiopian Tsige Duguma. The British Jemma Reekie took the silver medal.
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During the 2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest, Hungary, Noélie Yarigo stopped in the semi-final. This time, in Scotland, the Beninese offers Benin the first medal in history at the Worlds. The Franco-Beninese has held the French indoor 800m record since 2023 in 1’58”48.
At 38 years old, after many years of waiting, Noélie Yarigo, the only representative of Benin in this 19th edition of the indoor world championships, finally tastes the exhilaration of an international podium.
Give everything for Benin
“ I was really clear in this race, either it was going to go quickly, or it was going to be a tactical race, but I prepared myself mentally because I wanted this medal, whatever the color, confided Noélie Yarigo at the microphone of Frédéric Suteau for RFI. For eight years, I have invested a lot to reach the final! I did it, I said to myself “well, I have nothing to lose, I have to give everything to be able to best represent my country because it has been waiting for this medal for a long time “.
Noélie Yarigo holds the best performance in France in the 800m in 2024 with a time of 2’00”23. At the end of January, the athlete from AJ Blois-Onzain achieved the second world performance of the year in Val-de-Rueil, in Normandy, enough to reassure himself a month before the indoor world championships and launch this season brilliantly. Olympic.