European Athletics Indoor Championships: GB’s Revee Walcott-Nolan wins 1500m bronze as Georgia Hunter Bell misses out

Nice Britain’s Revee Walcott-Nolan received 1500m bronze on the European Athletics Indoor Championships as gold-medal favorite Georgia Hunter Bell missed out on the rostrum.

Olympic 1500m bronze medallist Hunter Bell, the quickest European throughout the gap to date this yr, led on the bell however couldn’t preserve her push for a primary main worldwide title and pale within the closing levels.

The 2 British athletes crossed the road collectively in 4 minutes 08.45 seconds, nevertheless it was Walcott-Nolan who was awarded her first worldwide medal by one thousandth of a second.

France’s Agathe Guillemot completed strongest to take gold in 4:07.23, forward of Portugal’s Salome Afonso (4:07.66) in Friday evening’s closing in Apeldoorn, the Netherlands.

Within the males’s closing, Britain’s Neil Gourley missed out on the rostrum in fourth as Jakob Ingebrigtsen claimed his sixth European indoor title.

The Norwegian Olympic 5,000m champion took cost over the second half of the race to assert gold in 3:36.56, forward of Frenchman Azeddine Habz, who took bronze behind Gourley in 2023.

Gourley ran 3:38.29 however misplaced contact with the entrance three, which additionally included Portugal’s bronze medallist Isaac Nader, on the ultimate lap.

The win means Ingebrigtsen, nonetheless solely 24 years outdated, has the possibility to equal the lads’s document for probably the most European indoor titles by claiming his seventh gold within the 3,000m, the heats for which occur on Saturday.

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