Surprised top favorites and a new Olympic record. The 1500 m final was unexpectedly dominated by an American runner – OH Paris 2024 – Summer Olympics

American runner Cole Hocker unexpectedly won a gold medal in the 1500 m at the Olympics in Paris. In Tuesday’s final at the Stade de France, he beat the top favorites and set a new Olympic record with a time of 3:27.65 minutes.

Cole Hocker celebrates an unexpected gold medal.

World champion Josh Kerr from Great Britain finished second with a deficit of 14 hundredths, and third was another American, Yared Nuguse.

Defending gold Norwegian Jakob Ingebrigtsen led almost the entire race, but remained without the precious metal in 4th place.

A big fight between Ingebrigtsen and Kerr was expected in the final, but it turned out differently. Twenty-three-year-old Hocker had so far only silver in his medal collection from this year’s indoor WC on this track, but in the end he completely caught the favorites by surprise.

At the finish line, he overtook everyone, including Ingebrigtsen, who led from the opening meters. The Norwegian set a high pace and was in the lead until the last corner.

But then he ran out of energy and, in addition to Hocker, last year’s world champion Kerr and Nuguse from the USA overtook him.

Even the new British record of 3:27.79 was not enough for Kerr to win the gold, Nuguse ran a personal record. The previous Olympic record was held by Ingebrigtsen from Tokyo with a time of 3:28.32 min.