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Marystown native Ryan Brockerville was less than three seconds short of a podium finish in the men’s 3,000-metre steeplechase Monday at the 2017 Jeux Francophonie (Francophone Games) in Abidjan, Ivory Coast on Africa’s west coast.
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Brockerville’s finishing time of eight minutes, 56.58 seconds put him fifth in the race. The bronze medallist from Tunisia had an 8:53.76 clocking.
The 27-year-old Brockerville, who works and trains in British Columbia, is one of two Newfoundlanders competing in track at these Games. Sprinter Daniel Kelloway of Mount Pearl, a fellow Simon Fraser University alumnus, runs in the 400m heats today.
