Jakob Ingebrigtsen takes third straight Diamond League title in chaotic 1,500m ultimate

In a busy 1,500m Diamond League ultimate in Brussels on Friday, Jakob Ingebrigtsen of Norway quashed any remaining doubts. The 23-year-old clocked 3:30.37 in a tactical occasion to get vengeance on Olympic champion Cole Hocker and bronze medallist Yared Nuguse–the American duo who saved him off the rostrum in Paris. The win marks his third consecutive Diamond League trophy within the males’s 1,500m occasion.

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The messy race noticed pacer Boaz Kiprugut step off 1,000m in–proper into the second lane, the place Ingebrigtsen was making his transfer to take the lead. The Norwegian and Kenya’s Timothy Cheruiyot had been each slowed down by the pacer, which led to a near-collision involving Nuguse, who was overtaken by Cheruiyot and Hocker.

In a photograph end, Cheruiyot took second over the Olympic champion in 3:30.93 with the American shut behind in 3:30.94.

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Jakob Ingebrigtsen takes a selfie with followers after successful gold within the males’s 5,000m ultimate at Paris 2024. Picture: Nick Iwanyshyn

In Thursday’s press convention forward of the ultimate, Ingebrigtsen had mentioned “There’s all the time the possibility of a world report, however probably not tomorrow.” As predicted, his time was nowhere close to Hicham El Guerrouj’s 1,500m world report of three:26.00. Followers should wait till the 2025 season to be again on world report watch–until he finally ends up making an look on the Copenhagen Half-Marathon on Sunday.

Full outcomes for the Diamond League assembly could be discovered right here.


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