Crew USA did one thing they haven’t finished in 112 years — have two medalists within the males’s 1,500-meter race at the Olympics.
Cole Hocker and Yared Nuguse chased down Norway’s Jakob Ingebrigtsen and Nice Britain’s Josh Kerr within the last meters of the race. Hocker someway discovered a gap and made a go across the Ingebrigtsen and Kerr to complete in first place. Nuguse additionally caught Ingebrigtsen and completed in third.
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Bronze medalist Yared Nuguse of Crew United States, silver medalist Josh Kerr of Crew Nice Britain, gold medalist Cole Hocker of Crew United States and Jakob Ingebrigtsen of Crew Norway cross the end line through the Males’s 1500m Last on day eleven of the Olympic Video games Paris 2024 at Stade de France on August 06, 2024 in Paris, France. (Christian Petersen/Getty Photos)
Hocker crossed the road at 3:27.65 for a gold medal and the Olympic report. Nuguse had a private finest with 3:27.80. Ingebrigtsen was the defending Olympic champion and ended up ending exterior of the highest three.
It’s the primary Olympic medal for Hocker. He received a silver within the 1,500 within the World Indoor Championships in Glasgow earlier this 12 months.
It’s Nuguse’s first Olympic medal as properly. He received a silver within the 3,000-meter race on the World Indoor Championships earlier within the 12 months.
US’ Cole Hocker crosses the end line to win the lads’s 1500m last of the athletics occasion forward of US’ Yared Nuguse (L), Britain’s Josh Kerr on the Paris 2024 Olympic Video games at Stade de France in Saint-Denis, north of Paris, on August 6, 2024. (DAVID GRAY/AFP by way of Getty Photos)
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Hobbs Kessler, a 3rd American runner, rounded out the highest 5 with a private finest of three:29.45.
The final time Individuals had two medalists within the 1,500-meter race was within the 1912 Olympics in Stockholm when Abel Kiviat and Norman Taber received silver and bronze medals, respectively.
USA’s Cole Hocker celebrates profitable the Males’s 1500m Last on the Stade de France on the Eleventh day of the 2024 Paris Olympic Video games in France. (John Walton/PA Photos by way of Getty Photos)
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American Matthew Centrowitz Jr. received gold within the race in 2016 in Rio de Janeiro. Earlier than that, the final American to win gold within the occasion was Mel Sheppard within the 1908 Video games.
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