Men&rsquo;s 1500m short track 3:29.63 Jakob Ingebrigtsen (NOR) Lievin, 13 February 2025
Men&rsquo;s mile short track 3:45.14 Jakob Ingebrigtsen (NOR) Lievin, 13 February 2025
Women&rsquo;s 5km (mixed race) 13:54 (mx) Beatrice Chebet (KEN) Barcelona, 31 December 2024
Men&rsquo;s pole vault 6.27m Mondo Duplantis (SWE) Clermont-Ferrand, 28 February 2025
Men&rsquo;s 20km race walk 1:16:10 Toshikazu Yamanishi (JPN) Kobe, 16 February 2025
 World records achieved by Beatrice Chebet, Mondo Duplantis, Jakob Ingebrigtsen and Toshikazu Yamanishi have been ratified by World Athletics.
The first of these world records was set by Kenya&rsquo;s Chebet in Barcelona on 31 December. Running 13:54 at the Cursa dels Nassos, the Olympic 5000m and 10,000m champion shattered the previous world 5km record by 19 seconds to become the first woman to beat 14 minutes for the distance on any surface, track or road. The previous world record of 14:13 had been set by her compatriot Agnes Ngetich in Valencia on 14 January 2024.
&ldquo;I&rsquo;m super happy as everything went according to plan,&rdquo; she said. &ldquo;I felt capable of running under 14 and I managed to do so. My focus for next year is to win gold medals over 5000m and 10,000m at the World Championships in Tokyo.&rdquo;
Two world records were set by Norway&rsquo;s Ingebrigtsen at the World Athletics Indoor Tour Gold meeting in Lievin on 13 February. Just five days after Yared Nuguse&rsquo;s world mile short track record in New York, Ingebrigtsen went one better as he not only smashed the mile mark but also improved the world 1500m short track record along the way.
First the two-time Olympic gold medallist passed through 1500m in 3:29.63, taking almost a second off the world short track record of 3:30.60 he set on the same track on 17 February 2022. He continued to cross the finish line in 3:45.14, improving on the 3:46.63 mile recorded by Nuguse in New York on 8 February.
&ldquo;It feels amazing,&rdquo; said Ingebrigtsen. &ldquo;You have to be focused for the whole race. It&rsquo;s tough, but it&rsquo;s worth it.&rdquo;
Japan&rsquo;s Yamanishi achieved his world record in Kobe on 16 February. By clocking 1:16:10 at the Japanese 20km Race Walking Championships, the two-time world champion improved the previous world 20km race walk record of 1:16:36 set by his compatriot Yusuke Suzuki in Nomi on 15 March 2015 by 26 seconds.
&ldquo;When I was planning my race, whatever happened in the race I was aiming for the world record,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;With my performance today, I was able to express my appreciation towards my supporters who stuck along even during the last season when I was struggling.&rdquo;
Sweden&rsquo;s Duplantis set the 11th world pole vault record of his career in Clermont-Ferrand on 28 February.
In a competition of record depth, the Olympic and world champion cleared 6.27m to add a centimetre to the world record of 6.26m he set in Silesia on 25 August.
He achieved the 6.27m clearance on his first attempt.
World Athletics

World records achieved by Beatrice Chebet, Mondo Duplantis, Jakob Ingebrigtsen and Toshikazu Yamanishi have been ratified by World Athletics

Ratified: world records for Chebet, Duplantis, Ingebrigtsen and Yamanishi

Ethiopia&rsquo;s Gudaf Tsegay improved her own championship record to 3:54.86 to win the 1500m title at the World Athletics Indoor Championships Nanjing 25.
Tsegay now has two world indoor 1500m titles to her name, both set with championship record-breaking performances, and her latest winning time is the fourth-fastest indoor women&rsquo;s 1500m in history behind her own world record of 3:53.09. She owns all four of the fastest performances of all time, two of them set in 2025, and she went into the championships as a big favourite following her 3:53.92 win in Lievin in February.
She led an Ethiopian top two, Diribe Welteji following her home for silver in 3:59.30 and Great Britain&rsquo;s Georgia Hunter Bell getting bronze in an indoor PB of 3:59.84. Australia's Georgia Griffith set an Oceanian indoor record of 4:00.80 in fourth.
Tsegay, also the world record-holder in the 5000m outdoors, contested three events &ndash; the 1500m, 5000m and 10,000m &ndash; at the Paris Olympics and was disappointed after missing out on a medal in each of those disciplines.
She was back to her brilliant best in Nanjing.
&ldquo;It was not an easy race,&rdquo; said Tsegay, who won world 5000m gold in 2022 and the world 10,000m title in 2023. &ldquo;This was a fast time, so I'm very happy about that.&nbsp;
&ldquo;Athletes go through ups and downs, injuries, challenges &ndash; it's no problem. I prefer the indoors. For outdoors, I'll do the 800m or 10,000m, but indoors I like the 1500m.&rdquo;
Her passion for the event shows.
The 28-year-old went straight to the front of the race in Nanjing and was tracked early on by world 1500m silver medallist and world road mile champion Welteji.
Tsegay began to create a gap and Welteji was joined by Griffith, while Hunter Bell led a group behind them.
After a blistering start, Tsegay remained inside world record pace for more than half the race. Her win never looked in doubt, but the contest for the two other medals was on.
Hunter Bell closed the gap on Welteji and Griffith, before a fight for the finish line. Welteji managed to hold off her rivals and was rewarded with silver to match her world outdoor medal of the same colour from Budapest, and improve on her fifth-place finish from Glasgow last year.
Hunter Bell also matched the colour of medal that she achieved at the Olympic Games in Paris, bagging bronze by half a second ahead of Griffith.
The British athlete later called it &ldquo;redemption&rdquo;.&nbsp;
&ldquo;I really wanted to bounce back,&rdquo; said Hunter Bell, who finished fourth at the European Indoor Championships.
&ldquo;When they went off, I just felt it was fast. I was not wanting to use all my energy too quickly and I was like, &lsquo;be patient&rsquo;. It's very brave of her (Tsegay) to run that fast. This medal means a lot. I just want to get as many medals as possible, and I love championship racing.&rdquo;
Jess Whittington for World Athletics
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<td style="width: 10%; background-color: #e9c968; text-align: center;">🥇</td>
<td style="width: 60%; background-color: #e9c968;">Gudaf Tsegay (ETH)</td>
<td style="width: 30%; background-color: #e9c968;">3:54.86 CR</td>
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<td style="width: 10%; background-color: #ced4d9; text-align: center;">🥈</td>
<td style="width: 60%; background-color: #ced4d9;">Diribe Welteji (ETH)</td>
<td style="width: 30%; background-color: #ced4d9;">3:59.30</td>
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<td style="width: 10%; background-color: #bd895e; text-align: center;">🥉</td>
<td style="width: 60%; background-color: #bd895e;">Georgia Hunter Bell (GBR)</td>
<td style="width: 30%; background-color: #bd895e;">3:59.84 PB</td>
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<td style="background-color: #34495e; text-align: left;" colspan="3">&nbsp;&nbsp;<a style="color: #ffffff;" href="https://worldathletics.org/en/competitions/world-athletics-indoor-championships/nanjing25/results/women/1500-metres/final/result" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Full results</a></td>
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World Athletics Indoor Championships

Report on the women's 1500m at the World Athletics Indoor Championships Nanjing 25

Tsegay runs championship record to win 1500m title in Nanjing

Jakob Ingebrigtsen, at long last, has a world title over 1500m.
One day after earning his first world indoor title by taking 3000m gold, the Norwegian completed the distance double in Nanjing by winning the 1500m, becoming just the second man in history to win two gold medals at the same World Indoors, following in the footsteps of Haile Gebrselassie who achieved the 1500m/3000m double in 1999.
The 24-year-old controlled the pace and held off his challengers to take the title in 3:38.79. Britain's Neil Gourley came through to take silver in 3:39.07 ahead of surprise bronze medallist Luke Houser of the USA.
The two-time world champion over 5000m had already made headlines earlier in the season by breaking the world indoor mile and 1500m records in Li&eacute;vin.
Eager to claim a long-awaited world gold in the 1500m after missing out at the 2022 World Indoors, and at the past three editions of the outdoor World Championships, the multiple world record-holder adopted a slightly different strategy. Instead of his usual position at the back of the pack, he started three spots from the rear.
With six laps remaining, Ingebrigtsen moved to the middle of the field before taking the lead with about four laps to go. Sweden&rsquo;s Samuel Pihlstrom, running on the outside, attempted to overtake the two-time Olympic champion but lost ground as Ingebrigtsen maintained his commanding position to become the first man in this century to win the 1500m/3000m double at the World Indoors.
Behind the six-time European gold medallist, a battle for the remaining podium spots unfolded. Great Britain&rsquo;s Neil Gourley held close but was overtaken by Portugal&rsquo;s Isaac Nader, who surged into second place as the bell rang. Ingebrigtsen responded by shifting gears, accelerating smoothly to extend his lead. Gourley and USA&rsquo;s Luke Houser stayed consistent, securing silver and bronze, while Nader finished just outside the podium in fourth with a time of 3:39.58.
&ldquo;Of course this is something special,&rdquo; said Ingebrigtsen. &ldquo;It's very difficult to compare yourself against history and what others are doing. I'm only focusing on myself. I think I can do more, so I'll try to maximise that and grab the opportunity given to me. The goal is to participate as much as I can. It's definitely important to use the opportunities and not take anything for granted.&rdquo;
Gourley who narrowly missed out on a podium placement at the European indoors, was pleased with his silver medal.
&ldquo;I'm really happy with this&rdquo;, he said. &ldquo;I came here to right some of the wrongs of a couple of weeks ago at the Europeans, where I feel like I didn't compete or represent myself too well. This week in Nanjing, I just really felt like myself. I had a game plan, which was to stay at the back of the race until it started moving. I waited for the big move and then committed to that move. And it worked.&rdquo;
Winning a medal at his first World Indoors was a dream come true for Houser.
&ldquo;I came into this race, stepping on the line, I knew I could I could get a medal,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;I knew I was capable of doing it, but actually going out there and doing it is a whole different thing. I&rsquo;m just so happy I could get that done. It's a dream come true to be out there competing with the world's best.&rdquo;
Yemi Galadima for World Athletics
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<td style="width: 10%; background-color: #e9c968; text-align: center;">🥇</td>
<td style="width: 60%; background-color: #e9c968;">Jakob Ingebrigtsen (NOR)</td>
<td style="width: 30%; background-color: #e9c968;">3:38.79</td>
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<td style="width: 10%; background-color: #ced4d9; text-align: center;">🥈</td>
<td style="width: 60%; background-color: #ced4d9;">Neil Gourley (GBR)</td>
<td style="width: 30%; background-color: #ced4d9;">3:39.07</td>
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<td style="width: 10%; background-color: #bd895e; text-align: center;">🥉</td>
<td style="width: 60%; background-color: #bd895e;">Luke Houser (USA)</td>
<td style="width: 30%; background-color: #bd895e;">3:39.17</td>
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<td style="background-color: #34495e; text-align: left;" colspan="3">&nbsp;&nbsp;<a style="color: #ffffff;" href="https://worldathletics.org/en/competitions/world-athletics-indoor-championships/nanjing25/results/men/1500-metres/final/result" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Full results</a></td>
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Report on the men's 1500m at the World Athletics Indoor Championships Nanjing 25

Ingebrigtsen completes distance double with 1500m gold in Nanjing

Sadly, the Queen Elizabeth II Stadium in Christchurch is no longer with us. Devastated by the earthquake that struck the largest city on New Zealand&rsquo;s South Island in 2011, the arena was demolished in 2012.
It was there, on the afternoon of 2 February 1974, that Filbert Bayi produced the stunning gun-to-tape 1500m performance that sent shock waves reverberating around the track and field world.
&ldquo;The most devastating piece of front running by any athlete in middle distance events,&rdquo; the BBC television commentator David Coleman reflected in the aftermath of Bayi&rsquo;s victory in the men&rsquo;s 1500m final at the 1974 Commonwealth Games in New Zealand&rsquo;s Garden City.
The 20-year-old Tanzanian, who forged his speed endurance herding cows in the shadow of Mount Kilimanjaro and running eight miles a day to and from school, achieved his breath-taking tour de force wearing the national singlet, shorts and race number that, 60 years on, he has kindly donated to <a href="https://www.tinyurl.com/visitMOWA" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the Museum of World Athletics (MOWA)</a>.
Bayi did not just destroy Jim Ryun&rsquo;s seven-year-old world record figures of 3:33.1; he left his rivals as distant also-rans in a performance Mel Watman described in the Athletics 74 annual as &ldquo;the most uncompromising run ever seen in a major international 1500m championship&rdquo;.
To many of the leading lights in what Brendan Foster called &ldquo;the greatest ever mass race at 1500m&rdquo;, it came as a bolt from the blue.
Foster himself was part of the illustrious cast that day. A week earlier, the two-mile world record-holder had been edged out in an epic duel for the Commonwealth 5000m crown with Ben Jipcho, the Kenyan clocking 13:14.4 and the Briton 13:14.6 to go second and third on the world all-time list, behind Emiel Puttemans&rsquo; 13:13.0.
Foster wound up a distant seventh in the 1500m final, a whopping 5.4 seconds behind Bayi &ndash; in 3:37.6, a British record.
The stacked field also included Jipcho, who was gunning for a hat-trick of golds, having also won the 3000m steeplechase.
A decade older than Bayi, the 30-year-old Kenyan had first-hand knowledge of the daring tactic the Tanzanian had been attempting to perfect since suffering the disappointment of being knocked out in the heats of the 1500m and the 3000m steeplechase at the Munich Olympics in 1972.
On the European circuit in the summer of 1973, Bayi tried to burn off his rivals by setting a scorching pace. In a stunning mile race in Stockholm, he zipped through 400m in 52.5, 800m in 1:51.0 and 1200m in 2:52.0, forging a lead of 80 metres, before folding in the final 200 metres.
He was caught and passed in the last 50 metres by Jipcho, whose winning time of 3:52.0 ranked second on the all-time list behind Ryun&rsquo;s 3:51.1.
<h2>&lsquo;I&rsquo;ll surprise you people&rsquo;</h2>
Bayi had finished just 0.6 behind that day, yet most of the 35,000 crowd in Christchurch, and the other leading players in the race, expected another capitulation when he set off at a similarly devilish pace.
Passing 400m in 54.9 and 800m in 1:52.2, the young Tanzanian was some 15 metres clear at the bell, glancing over his right shoulder to check for possible danger.
With 200 metres to go, Jipcho made an effort to close the gap but was overtaken 120 metres out by John Walker, the emerging New Zealander who had beaten Bayi to bronze in the 800m final, and by Rod Dixon, the Kiwi who claimed Olympic 1500m bronze in Munich in 1972.
<div><img style="max-width: 900px; width: 100%; display: block;" src="https://assets.aws.worldathletics.org/66b33903294ac3630c5d9701.jpg" alt="Filbert Bayi presents his singlet to Sebastian Coe in Paris" />
Filbert Bayi presents his singlet to Sebastian Coe in Paris (&copy; James Rhodes)
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The crowd roared as the home duo charged off the final bend, but Bayi had too much in hand.
Glancing over his shoulder again halfway down the home straight, he noted Walker closing on him but applied his foot on the pedal sufficiently to keep two steps ahead.
&ldquo;I had another gear if I needed it,&rdquo; Bayi maintained, after crossing the line in 3:32.2 (3:32.16, with electric timing) &ndash; 0.9 inside the world record.
Walker was also inside Ryun&rsquo;s global figures, with 3:32.5 in second place. Jipcho snatched third place in 3:33.2, breaking Keino&rsquo;s Kenyan record, with the tiring Dixon fourth in 3:33.9 and fifth placed Graham Crouch clocking 3:34.2 to eclipse Herb Elliott&rsquo;s Australian record.
&ldquo;Nobody was talking about me before the race,&rdquo; Bayi reflected. &ldquo;I was the underdog. I said to myself, &lsquo;Ok, don&rsquo;t talk about me; I&rsquo;ll surprise you people&rsquo;.
&ldquo;I thought I needed to do the same thing I had done in 1973 at the African Games, when I beat Kipchoge Keino. I made my move from the beginning and people thought they would catch me.
&ldquo;I saw John Walker was coming behind me in the home straight and I just accelerated. I said, &lsquo;Ok, catch me if you can&rsquo;.&rdquo;
Fittingly, Bayi&rsquo;s autobiography, which details not just his running career but his life as an inspiring educator in his homeland and as leading sports administrator, echoes the challenge he issued that day: &ldquo;Catch me if you can.&rdquo;
Having fallen short, Walker was magnanimous in defeat. &ldquo;Filbert ran an extraordinary race,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;I was coming from behind but I was never going to catch him.&rdquo;
<h2>Tanzania&rsquo;s first ever Olympic medallist</h2>
In May the following year, Bayi broke Ryun&rsquo;s world record for the mile, running 3:51.0 in the Jamaican capital, Kingston. Thereafter, however, he was overtaken by fate, and by Walker, in the battle for global middle-distance supremacy.
Injury cut short his European season in 1975 and Walker cut down his mile record, pushing through the 3:50 barrier with a time of 3:49.4 in Gothenburg.
The hotly-anticipated showdown between the Tanzanian and the New Zealander at the 1976 Olympics in Montreal was scuppered by an African boycott, though at the time of the Games Bayi was suffering from malaria while Walker strode to 1500m gold.
Bayi continued to be dogged by injury and illness but he earned Commonwealth 1500m silver behind England&rsquo;s Dave Moorcroft in Edmonton in 1978, before reverting to the 3000m steeplechase for the 1980 Olympics.
In the final he was overhauled just before the final water jump by the muscular Pole Bronislaw Malinowski but was happy to hold on for silver in 8:12.5, proud to be his country&rsquo;s first ever Olympic medallist.
The great front runner held his 1500m world record until 1979.
Fittingly, it fell to a devotee who had adopted Bayi&rsquo;s bold tactics after watching his televised Christchurch masterclass as a star-struck teenager.
Sebastian Coe took particular pride in shaving 0.1 off the Tanzanian&rsquo;s time with his 3:32.1 run in Zurich.
&ldquo;It was one of the best world records on the books,&rdquo; said Coe, &ldquo;and it was the hardest of the 11 I broke.&rdquo;
Bayi&rsquo;s singlet, bib number and shorts can be viewed in glorious 3D in <a href="https://www.tinyurl.com/visitMOWA" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the Museum of World Athletics (MOWA)</a>.
Simon Turnbull for World Athletics

Looking back at Filbert Bayi's world 1500m record run

‘The most uncompromising run ever seen’ – Bayi’s world record singlet enters MOWA

A look back at the key moments of 2024 in the middle and long distance events

2024 review: middle and long distance

Five days of World Athletics U20 Championships Lima 24 competition, featuring some 1700 athletes from more than 130 teams, will conclude on Saturday (31) when the final 13 titles will be won.
The session starts with the men&rsquo;s discus and ends with the 4x400m relays. Here are three things to follow at the Estadio Atletico de la Videna. 
<h2>Relays close the show</h2>
Four relays &ndash; the women&rsquo;s and men&rsquo;s 4x100m plus the women&rsquo;s and men&rsquo;s 4x400m &ndash; are all taking place on the fifth and final day of competition in Lima.
The Jamaican women&rsquo;s 4x100m team is set to feature individual 100m champion Alana Reid, who ran the anchor leg in the heats, as they look to defend their title from Cali. In the men&rsquo;s event, there will be a new champion as Japan was disqualified during the heats. Like in the women&rsquo;s event, Jamaica was quickest in the men&rsquo;s heats but should face a strong challenge from Thailand, anchored by 100m silver medallist Puripol Boonson, in the final.
In the 4x400m finals, Australia will be on the hunt for more medals to go with the mixed 4x400m gold won on day one.
<a href="https://worldathletics.org/competitions/world-athletics-u20-championships/lima24/news/preview/wu20-lima-24-preview-relays" target="_blank" rel="noopener">WU20 Lima 24 relays preview</a> 
<h2>Athletes ready to hit the heights</h2>
The women&rsquo;s high jump will feature Estonia&rsquo;s Karmen Bruus, who defends the title she won in Cali two years ago. After focusing on the high jump during the past couple of outdoor seasons, Bruus returned to combined events action this year and set a PB of 5013 points to win the Estonian U20 heptathlon title. Her high jump PB remains 1.96m, a mark that matched the world U18 best when she achieved it in Eugene in 2022.
But it&rsquo;s Serbia&rsquo;s Angelina Topic who tops the entry list with her season&rsquo;s best of 1.98m, and the two-time senior European medallist, who claimed world U20 bronze behind Bruus in Cali, will be looking to rebound after qualifying for the Olympic final in Paris but being unable to compete through injury.
Both athletes cruised through qualification, clearing up to 1.83m with no faults.
<a href="https://worldathletics.org/competitions/world-athletics-u20-championships/lima24/news/preview/wu20-lima-24-preview-jumps" target="_blank" rel="noopener">WU20 Lima 24 jumps events preview</a> 
<h2>Middle-distance duels</h2>
Australia&rsquo;s Cameron Myers could crown a strong season with the world U20 1500m title. He led qualification, winning his heat in 3:41.32, but to claim the title he will have to defeat Ethiopia&rsquo;s Abdisa Fayisa, who tops the entries with the 3:32.37 he ran to win the Ethiopian Olympic Trials in June. Fayisa then competed at the Paris Olympics, finishing 14th in his 1500m heat and 10th in the repechage.
In the women&rsquo;s 1500m final, Ethiopia&rsquo;s Saron Berhe is the clear favourite. The 17-year-old won the African title in June and dipped under four minutes for the first time in April at the Wanda Diamond League meeting in Xiamen, clocking 3:59.21.
<a href="https://worldathletics.org/competitions/world-athletics-u20-championships/lima24/news/preview/wu20-lima-24-preview-distance" target="_blank" rel="noopener">WU20 Lima 24 distance events preview</a>

World Athletics U20 Championships

Five days of World Athletics U20 Championships Lima 24 competition, featuring some 1700 athletes from more than 130 teams, will conclude on Saturday (31) when the final 13 titles will be won

Three things to follow on the fifth and final day in Lima

The World Athletics U20 Championships Lima 24 will take place between 27-31 August, with more than 1700 athletes from 134 teams set to take part.
Here we take a look at the distance events at the Estadio Atletico de la Videna.
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<h2>Women&rsquo;s 800m</h2>
Kenya&rsquo;s Sarah Moraa will look to follow in the footsteps of her cousin, Mary, by claiming a global 800m title. Mary Moraa finished fifth at these championships back in 2018 and went on to win the world 800m title at senior level in 2023 and she&rsquo;s been a mentor for her 18-year-old cousin, Sarah, who finished third at the Kenyan Olympic Trials in June, lowering her PB to 1:59.39.
Moraa is the second quickest in the field on personal bests, the entries headed by Australia&rsquo;s Claudia Hollingsworth, who broke the national U20 800m record to win the Australian senior title in April with 1:58.40 before going on to the Paris Olympics where she reached the 800m semi-finals.
Sophia Gorriaran is another who is likely to be in the medal hunt, the US 19-year-old equalling her PB in May with 2:00.65 and she finished seventh in the semi-final of the US Olympic Trials in June.
Japan&rsquo;s Rin Kubo is one of the country&rsquo;s most exciting young prospects, having clocked 1:59.93 in Nara last month at the age of just 16 and she could well announce herself on the international stage by snatching a medal here. Norway&rsquo;s Malin Hoelsveen, Germany&rsquo;s Jana Marie Becker and Italy&rsquo;s Ngalula Gloria Kabangu should also be strong contenders.
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<h2>Men&rsquo;s 800m</h2>
Australia&rsquo;s Peyton Craig tops the world U20 lists for 2024 via the Oceanian record of 1:44.12 he ran in Vienna in June, the 19-year-old Queensland athlete going on to compete in the Olympics in Paris. He competed over 1500m at the last edition of these championships in 2022.
Czechia&rsquo;s Jakub Dudycha is the European U20 champion and the 18-year-old broke the Czech senior record in June with his 1:44.82 and made his Olympic debut in Paris over 800m.
Japan&rsquo;s Ko Ochiai is the Asian U20 champion and broke the national U20 record in Niigata in June with 1:45.82, which he lowered again to 1:44.80 in late July. Ethiopia&rsquo;s General Berhanu Ayansa has a best of 1:45.45 and is sure to be in the medal hunt while Qatar&rsquo;s Hatim Ait Oulghazi, Kenya&rsquo;s Kelvin Kimutai Koech and USA&rsquo;s Daniel Watcke are among those to have run under 1:47 and should also feature.
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<h2>Women&rsquo;s 1500m</h2>
Ethiopia&rsquo;s Saron Berhe is the clear favourite for this title with a personal best eight seconds quicker than her nearest rival on the entry lists. The 17-year-old won the African title in June and dipped under four minutes for the first time in April at the Wanda Diamond League meeting in Xiamen, China, clocking 3:59.21. She will be joined by compatriot Tsige Teshome, who won silver at the Ethiopian U20 Championships last month.
Germany&rsquo;s Jolanda Kallabis has made giant strides this year, lowering her PB to 4:07.55 in May, while Britain&rsquo;s Ava Lloyd (4:12.07), Norway&rsquo;s Malin Hoelsveen (4:12.17) and Denmark&rsquo;s Sofia Thogersen (4:12.95) are the others on the entry list to have run below 4:15.
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<h2>Men&rsquo;s 1500m</h2>
Australia&rsquo;s rising star Cameron Myers has enjoyed another strong season and the 18-year-old looks capable of crowning it in Lima with a world U20 title. He missed out on qualification for the Paris Olympics after finishing fifth at their national championships in Adelaide and then clocked a 3:50.15 mile at the Eugene Diamond League to break the national U20 record.
But to win in Lima, he will have to defeat Ethiopia&rsquo;s Abdisa Fayisa, who tops the entries via the 3:32.37 he ran to win the Ethiopian Olympic Trials in Nerja, Spain in June. Fayisa then competed at the Paris Olympics, finishing 14th in his 1500m heat and 10th in the repechage.
Norway has significant strength at senior level in this event and the same is true in the U20 category, with Hakon Moeberg and Andreas Fjeld Halvorsen both capable of contending for a medal, having run 3:37.25 and 3:38.32 this year. Kenya&rsquo;s Josphat Kipkirui and Ethiopia&rsquo;s Sendel Musa have both run below 3:40 already, as has Britain&rsquo;s George Couttie.
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<h2>Women&rsquo;s 3000m</h2>
You have to go back to 2016 to find the last Ethiopian winner of this title but it will come as a surprise if the distance-running superpower doesn&rsquo;t reclaim the crown this year, with Aleshign Baweke and Marta Alemayo topping the entry lists, having run 8:41.10 and 8:45.40 respectively this year. Both of those times were run at altitude in Hawassa to lead the way at the Ethiopian U20 Championships, with Alemayo proving her strength in Liege, Belgium in June by clocking 14:39.61 for 5000m.
There are three other women on the entries who have run below nine minutes: Sofia Thogersen of Denmark, Amy Bunnage of Australia and Innes Fitzgerald of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Thogersen won silver over 1500m and 5000m at the European U20 Championships last year and ran her 3000m PB of 8:50.26 indoors in Metz, France in February.
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<h2>Men&rsquo;s 3000m</h2>
Kenyan duo Clinton Kimutai Ngetich and Denis Kipkoech should prove tough to beat in this. Australia&rsquo;s Cameron Myers tops the entry list with his PB of 7:46.38 but he&rsquo;s expected to focus solely on the 1500m in Lima, with Ngetich (7:48.09) and Kipkoech (7:48.48) the next quickest.
Ethiopia&rsquo;s Ybeltal Gashahun and Abrha Gebru finished 1-2 at their national U20 Trials, clocking 7:58.70 and 7:59.00 in the thin air of Hawassa, and while both of those were personal bests, it&rsquo;s likely that both are capable of significantly faster at sea level.
Norway&rsquo;s Andreas Fjeld Halvorsen and Juan Zijderlaan of the Netherlands have both run 7:51 and should also be in contention for a top-five finish, along with Britain&rsquo;s Henry Dover who has a best of 7:57.47.
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<h2>Women&rsquo;s 5000m</h2>
Ethiopia looks to have the strongest hand in this event courtesy of the only two athletes to have run below 15 minutes in the field: Medina Eisa and Mekedes Alemeshete.
Eisa will start as favourite to defend her title, having clocked 14:16.54 &ndash; the fastest time ever by an U20 athlete &ndash; in London last year. She finished seventh in the 5000m at the recent Paris Olympics and took an impressive win over 5000m at the Marrakech Diamond League in May. Alemeshete should prove the biggest threat, having run 14:36.70 to win at the Suzhou Diamond League in April.
Australia&rsquo;s Amy Bunnage has a best of 15:11.68, which she ran indoors in Seattle in February, and the Stanford University student will fancy her chances of contending if she produces her best. Kenya&rsquo;s Sheila Jebet clocked her PB of 15:20.48 in Italy in May and should also be in contention, along with her teammate Mercy Chepkemoi, Britain&rsquo;s Innes Fitzgerald and Japanese duo Kana Mizumoto and Yuumi Yamamoto.
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<h2>Men&rsquo;s 5000m</h2>
Kenya&rsquo;s Andrew Kiptoo Alamisi tops the entries via the 13:05.55 he ran in Italy in early June, but he was beaten into second at the Kenyan U20 Trials a few weeks after that by 2023 world U20 cross-country champion Ishmail Rokitto Kipkurui, who clocked 13:05.47 last year and finished a fine 10th in the world 5000m final in Budapest. They look the two athletes to beat.
Burundi&rsquo;s Emilie Hafashimana has enjoyed a strong season and he lowered the national U20 record to 13:15.24 in France in July and clocked a national U20 record of 27.47.88 for 10,000m in London in May.
Ethiopian pair Nibret Kinde and Sewmehon Anteneh should also be in the shake-up, while Uganda&rsquo;s Samuel Simba Cherop, Burundi&rsquo;s Desire Niyomwungere and Tanzania&rsquo;s John Nahhay Wele are also among the potential medallists.
Cathal Dennehy for World Athletics

A look at the 800m, 1500m, 3000m and 5000m in Lima

WU20 Lima 24 preview: distance

It is rare for an 18-year-old Australian to have the opportunity to race the world&rsquo;s best 1500m runners at Wanda Diamond League level, but Cameron Myers is taking it all in his stride.
The Canberra schoolboy has been making waves internationally for a couple of years now, since it became apparent that his development was matching that of former teen prodigy, now a dual Olympic champion, Jakob Ingebrigtsen, who won 1500m gold in Tokyo and 5000m gold in Paris.
Myers bettered Ingebrigtsen&rsquo;s world 16 years best for the mile and 1500m last year, becoming the second-youngest man to break four minutes for the mile (3:55.44) and setting a world U18 best of 3:33.26 in the 1500m.
He improved his mile mark to 3:50.15 this year, tracking ahead of Ingebrigtsen, and achieved a second qualification mark for the Olympic Games courtesy of a 3:33.30 1500m in March, when he defeated the 2022 world champion Jake Wightman in a low-key club race in Sydney.
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Cameron Myers during the Continental Tour Gold meeting in Melbourne (&copy; Casey Sims / World Athletics)
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With four Australian men qualified for the Paris Games in the 1500m, Myers headed to the northern hemisphere in May to strengthen his case for Olympic selection, but he was ultimately overlooked in favour of his more experienced rivals.&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;
That was a setback, and he was certainly disappointed, but he has refocused on the World Athletics U20 Championships Lima 24, where he hopes to win his first world title.
&ldquo;I have had quite a few races, and then a period here to reset before I head over to Lima,&rdquo; he said from his home in Canberra, where he is back at Ginninderra College completing his final year of high school.
&ldquo;I definitely wasn&rsquo;t thinking about World U20 in January-March, but after not getting selected (for Paris) I am going to focus on Lima, because that&rsquo;s still a great opportunity. The Olympics didn&rsquo;t go my way, but I want to make the most of what I do have.&rdquo;
After two races in the US in May, including his Oceanian U20 mile record set at the Prefontaine Classic in Eugene, and five in Europe in June-July, in between trying to keep up with his schoolwork, he has learned much about his best approach to international racing.
&ldquo;I think the biggest thing is to trust myself and play to my strengths&hellip; and not get carried away in the race,&rdquo; he said.
&ldquo;With each race I gained a bit of experience. It&rsquo;s important not to make the same mistakes again. Sometimes I left it a bit too late for the kick. I prefer a fast and honest race, but I haven&rsquo;t been 100% confident in my ability, but you have to be to give yourself the best possible odds of winning.&rdquo;
He regards his second place in the 1500m at the Meeting Nikaia in Nice in June as his best performance on the international stage to date because he &ldquo;attacked it and didn&rsquo;t have any fear of who I was racing&rdquo;.
&ldquo;That was the race I was most proud of,&rdquo; he said.
Myers also gained the experience of racing in front of nearly 60,000 people in the Emsley Carr Mile at the London Diamond League meeting in July, where he finished sixth in a near PB of 3:50.16.
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Cameron Myers in Diamond League action in London (&copy; Matthew Quine / Diamond League AG)
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&ldquo;It was crazy to race those guys in front of a stadium that packed,&rdquo; he recalled. &ldquo;You take a lot away from those kinds of experiences. I was satisfied with my place, but I wasn&rsquo;t totally satisfied with my race there. I gave too much responsibility to the other guys in the race. So it&rsquo;s nice to have another opportunity right around the corner.&rdquo;
His agent James Templeton, who also guided the career of world 800m record-holder and 2012 Olympic champion David Rudisha, accompanied Myers on tour and came away thinking the teenager had a &ldquo;great future&rdquo; in the sport.
&ldquo;Cam is highly talented, a very motivated young athlete,&rdquo; Templeton said. &ldquo;There&rsquo;s nothing about him that&rsquo;s complacent. He&rsquo;s very mature and impressive.&rdquo;
Which brings us to Lima where Myers plans to &ldquo;make it an honest race and one I am proud of&rdquo;.
At 18, he is a year younger than many of the U20 entrants, but he goes into Lima as the third-fastest of the year behind Dutch athlete Niels Laros (3:29.54), who has elected not to compete in Lima, and Ethiopia&rsquo;s Abdisa Fayisa (3:32.57).&nbsp;
The perennially high standard of East Africa&rsquo;s middle-distance runners will ensure that this will be a challenging event for all.
&ldquo;I am sure there will be a number of guys in contention who can win it,&rdquo; Myers said. &ldquo;I&rsquo;ve raced some Ethiopian and Kenyan athletes and quite often they do make it honest which does suit me. The laps may not be as even in pace as I&rsquo;m used to, but I have done races with a change of pace too.&rdquo;
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Cameron Myers at the 2023 Continental Tour Gold meeting in Melbourne (&copy; Getty Images)
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Myers is one of three outstanding young Australian middle-distance runners who will compete in Lima. Both Claudia Hollingsworth, 19, and Peyton Craig, 19, made their Olympic debuts in Paris and each reached the semifinals in the 800m.
Craig, from Gladstone in Queensland, contested both the World Triathlon U20 Championships (where he finished eighth) and the World Athletics U20 Championships in Cali (1500m heats) in 2022, before choosing to focus on athletics, where he has made great progress in the 800m.
His personal best of 1:44.11, set in the Olympic semifinal in Paris where he just missed the final, ranks him first among the entrants for Lima.
Hollingsworth, from Melbourne, also competed in Cali at 17, but was disqualified in the semifinals of the 1500m after stepping on to the in-field during a physical race.&nbsp;
She is a more battle-hardened athlete now, having made her senior World Athletics Championships debut in Budapest last year, and then gained Olympic experience in Paris. She will also enter Lima as the fastest athlete with a personal best of 1:58.40.
This teen trio will spearhead what may be the best Australian team ever to attend the World U20 Championships. And their timing appears to be just about perfect for a home Olympics in Brisbane in 2032, when all should be in their prime.
Nicole Jeffery for World Athletics

The 18-year-old is focused on the World Athletics U20 Championships Lima 24, where he hopes to win his first world title

Record-holder Myers ready to make his mark in Lima

Faith Kipyegon underlined her status as the queen of the 1500m, bagging her third successive Olympic title at the distance at the Paris 2024 Games on Saturday (10), becoming the first woman to win three Olympic golds in a single track discipline.
Each stride she made on the purple track of the packed Stade de France took her closer to her legendary status. Three-time world 1500m champion and world record-holder, Kipyegon produced a fearless run on the last lap to clock 3:51.29, taking two seconds off the Olympic record she set in Tokyo three years ago.
As the 30-year-old Kenyan crossed the line, she soaked in the moment, her eyes closed, mouth and hands open. She then signalled the crowd to cheer her on and punched the air.
&ldquo;It's a big, big achievement,&rdquo; said Kipyegon, who took silver over 5000m earlier in the Games. &ldquo;I was really looking forward to defending my title and I had a dream. It&rsquo;s amazing to me that I completed it. I'm so, so happy. This is history. I managed to make history. I've done it. This is an amazing honour; to win the gold medal in the 1500m was my key target.&rdquo;
World 2000m record-holder Jessica Hull of Australia overtook world road mile champion Diribe Welteji to take silver, clocking 3:52.56 as Great Britain&rsquo;s Georgia Bell also passed Welteji close to the finish to earn bronze with a national record of 3:52.61.
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&ldquo;I envisioned it being a battle, four of us at the top of the straight,&rdquo; said Hull. &ldquo;I was like, 'I&rsquo;m not going to be the one going home without a medal'. To see Georgia (Bell) come through, it&rsquo;s pretty incredible. We&rsquo;ve just come second and third behind the greatest of all time.&rdquo;
Having doubled up with the 5000m, Kipyegon ran the heats and the semifinals of the 1500m doing just enough to advance through each round.
"After the disappointment in the 5000m (first being disqualified and then having her silver medal reinstated after an appeal), it took a lot of energy from me,&rdquo; said Kipyegon. &ldquo;I didn't sleep until yesterday. It was like, 'What is going on?'&rdquo;
Gudaf Tsegay, who earlier this year ran 3:50.30, was expected to be one of Kipyegon&rsquo;s biggest threats, but the Ethiopian had already contested the 5000m and 10,000m, finishing outside of the medals in both finals.
But with so many other women in the field who have broken 4:00 this year, it was no surprise that it took an Olympic record from Kipyegon to win.
Tsegay set the early pace, followed by USA&rsquo;s Elle St Pierre, Bell and Welteji while Kipyegon opted to sit back. A lead pack of eight women emerged before Kipyegon made her move into second place with Hull tracking the Kenyan.
When the bell rang, Kipyegon took command of the race with Welteji and Hull right behind as Tsegay &ndash; just as she had done in the closing stages of the 5000m and 10,000m &ndash; started to fade.
Kipyegon&rsquo;s turn of pace earned her a seventh global title at senior level &ndash; another golden addition to the collection for her daughter Alyn to hang around her neck.
Michelle Katami for World Athletics
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<td style="width: 60%; background-color: #e9c968;">Faith Kipyegon (KEN)</td>
<td style="width: 30%; background-color: #e9c968;">3:51.29 OR</td>
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<td style="width: 60%; background-color: #ced4d9;">Jessica Hull (AUS)</td>
<td style="width: 30%; background-color: #ced4d9;">3:52.56</td>
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<td style="width: 60%; background-color: #bd895e;">Georgia Bell (GBR)</td>
<td style="width: 30%; background-color: #bd895e;">3:52.61 NR</td>
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The XXXIII Olympic Games

Faith Kipyegon underlined her status as the queen of the 1500m, bagging her third successive Olympic title at the distance

Kipyegon claims historic third 1500m title in Olympic record in Paris

Cole Hocker of the United States produced one of the great shocks of the Paris 2024 Games on Tuesday (6) as he won the 1500m title in an Olympic record of 3:27.65 after gatecrashing a party that was supposed to be all about bitter rivals Jakob Ingebrigtsen, the defending champion, and the Briton who had beaten the Norwegian to the world title a year earlier, Josh Kerr.
Kerr looked set to triumph once again as he repeated his Budapest tactic of overtaking Ingebrigtsen on the outside around the final bend and then pushing for home. But this time the picture was compounded by another presence in the inside lane &ndash; Hocker &ndash; and the Norwegian found himself assailed on both sides.
The 23-year-old from Indiana was flying, and while Kerr did everything he could to upgrade the bronze he had won behind Ingebrigtsen in Tokyo to gold, he could not resist the US runner and took silver in a national record of 3:27.79.
Meanwhile Ingebrigtsen, fading, came under pressure from a second US athlete, Yared Nuguse, who came through at the last for bronze in a personal best of 3:27.80.
Ingebrigtsen, who had hoped to become only the second man to win consecutive Olympic 1500m titles after Sebastian Coe&rsquo;s victories in 1980 and 1984, clocked 3:28.24. Not even on the podium.
Hocker had made a quiet entrance to the arena, but he ran like a man possessed to take almost three seconds off his personal best of 3:30.59.
There was an echo in his performance of the surprise 1500m win by compatriot Matthew Centrowitz at the Rio 2016 Games. The latter had won the world indoor title earlier in the year; Hocker took silver at this year&rsquo;s World Indoor Championships.
Three years ago Hocker beat Centrowitz at the US Trials, then finished sixth at the Olympics in a then PB of 3:31.40.
Asked after Sunday&rsquo;s semifinals about what people should be expecting from tonight&rsquo;s final, Kerr advised: &ldquo;They should be expecting one of the most vicious and hardest 1500s the sport&rsquo;s seen in a very long time.&rdquo;
That they got. And it was brutal indeed for Ingebrigtsen. But who expected Hocker?
Well, Hocker did.
&ldquo;That&rsquo;s an unbelievable feeling,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;I just felt like I was getting carried by the stadium and God. My body just kind of did it for me. My mind was all there and I saw that finish line.
&ldquo;Winning gold was my goal this entire year. I wrote that down and I repeated it to myself even if I didn&rsquo;t believe it.
&ldquo;My performances showed me that I was capable of running 3:27, whatever it took. I knew I was a medal contender, and I knew that if I get it right, it would be a gold medal. I&rsquo;ve been saying that.&rdquo;
Asked about the media attention beforehand on the rivalry between Ingebrigtsen and Kerr, he added: &ldquo;I kind of told myself that I&rsquo;m in this race too. If they let me fly under the radar, then so be it. I think that might&rsquo;ve just been the best.&rdquo;
Kerr commented: &ldquo;It&rsquo;s difficult to look back on it now just because it&rsquo;s been so crazy since the finish line. My ears are gone, my legs are gone. I&rsquo;m proud of the performance I put out there today.
"I said to myself I&rsquo;ll control my controllables, I did that today. I executed the fastest that I&rsquo;ve ever run by almost two seconds. It wasn&rsquo;t enough today. That&rsquo;s sport. Of course, I was looking for that gold medal, but it&rsquo;s a better medal than I got three years ago.&rdquo;
Ingebrigtsen reflected: &ldquo;It was the race I expected. I felt extremely good, and that&rsquo;s why I pushed the pace a little too hard. Of course, it&rsquo;s not what I was hoping for. I can only blame myself. It&rsquo;s a difficult game, balancing your energy. It&rsquo;s difficult to get 100% of that.
&ldquo;The others did a great race. This was a risk I was going to take.&rdquo;
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The race had proceeded according to prediction, with European record-holder Ingebrigtsen taking the initiative from the start and pushing harder and harder. He led through 800m in 1:51.5 and 1200m in 2:47.3.
After passing the marker for two more laps, Ingebrigtsen had surged down the back straight and seemed momentarily to have detached himself from the elongated field, but Kenya&rsquo;s Brian Komen bridged the gap with Kerr, impassive behind his shades, just at his shoulder, ideally placed to strike.
As the Norwegian heard the bell he pushed again, but again he could not get clear, and after the race rounded the final bend his ambitions fell apart as rivals streamed past him on either side.
The last time Kerr and Ingebrigtsen had met, other than Sunday&rsquo;s semifinal, was over a mile at the Eugene Diamond League meeting in May, when Kerr won in a national record of 3:45.34.
&ldquo;It&rsquo;s a good fight,&rdquo; Ingebrigtsen said after that race. &ldquo;Some of my competitors have clearly taken a step in the right direction but not a big step &ndash; not as big of a step that maybe is needed to be the favourite in Paris.&rdquo;
He may have been the favourite, but that is now immaterial.
It was the first time two US athletes had earned Olympic 1500m medals in the same race since 1912.
Fifth place went to the third US runner in the field, Hobbs Kessler, in a personal best of 3:29.45, with 19-year-old Niels Laros &ndash; mark that name &ndash; finishing sixth in a national record of 3:29.54.
Pietro Arese of Italy also set a national record of 3:30.74 in eighth place.
&ldquo;It was absolutely phenomenal,&rdquo; said Nuguse. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s like the exact kind of race I wanted, a really fast race where you can go all out and not be impeded by anything. Just like a crazy race for the finish. That&rsquo;s exactly what I got today.
&ldquo;My strategy was just roll with it, whatever happens. I know I&rsquo;m strong enough, good enough to hang with any kind of pace. So if it&rsquo;s that, hang with it, if it&rsquo;s slow, get to the front. But it was very, very fast.
&ldquo;This medal means everything. It&rsquo;s a real pinnacle of our sport, being able to come to the world stage where everyone is performing at their absolute best. It&rsquo;s so, so amazing and to share with a fellow American makes it even better.&rdquo;
Mike Rowbottom for World Athletics
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<td style="width: 10%; background-color: #e9c968; text-align: center;">🥇</td>
<td style="width: 60%; background-color: #e9c968;">Cole Hocker (USA)</td>
<td style="width: 30%; background-color: #e9c968;">3:27.65 OR</td>
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<td style="width: 10%; background-color: #ced4d9; text-align: center;">🥈</td>
<td style="width: 60%; background-color: #ced4d9;">Josh Kerr (GBR)</td>
<td style="width: 30%; background-color: #ced4d9;">3:27.79 NR</td>
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<td style="width: 10%; background-color: #bd895e; text-align: center;">🥉</td>
<td style="width: 60%; background-color: #bd895e;">Yared Nuguse (USA)</td>
<td style="width: 30%; background-color: #bd895e;">3:27.80 PB</td>
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Men's 1500m report

Hocker the shocker earns 1500m title in Olympic record as Kerr v Ingebrigtsen show falls through

<h2>Women's 1500m</h2>
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&bull; Faith Kipyegon has the chance to become the first woman to win three titles in the same individual track event at the Olympics &bull; Field features three of the five fastest 1500m runners in history, with Gudaf Tsegay and Jessica Hull in the mix &bull; Sifan Hassan entered for the 1500m, but is set to focus on 5000m, 10,000m and marathon
Speaking at the end of 2023, <a href="https://worldathletics.org/athletes/kenya/faith-kipyegon-14413305" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Faith Kipyegon</a> explained how she had been determined to break the world 1500m record to &ldquo;complete&rdquo; her &ldquo;historical journey&rdquo; in the event. She had Olympic and world titles, but no world record.&nbsp;
Her 3:49.11 in Florence just over a year ago changed all that, and after taking almost a second off the previous world 1500m record with her performance, Kipyegon proceeded to set world records in the 5000m and the mile, too.
Historical journey completed, then? Not for Kipyegon.&nbsp;
After winning the 1500m and 5000m at the World Athletics Championships in Budapest &ndash; becoming the first woman to accomplish that double and secure a hattrick of 1500m titles &ndash; the Kenyan star ended her 2023 track campaign with a 1500m win at the Wanda Diamond League final in Eugene.&nbsp;
A muscle injury interrupted the start of her 2024 season but the 30-year-old returned to competition at the Kenyan Olympic trials, running 3:53.98 for 1500m and 14:46.28 for 5000m at the altitude of Nairobi. Then she went to the Diamond League meeting in Paris, where she warmed up for the Olympics by breaking the world 1500m record again &ndash; clocking 3:49.04.
Now she returns to the French capital with the opportunity to become the first woman to win the same individual track event three times at the Olympics. Only one other woman in the history of the Games has ever claimed a threepeat and that&rsquo;s Anita Wlodarczyk in the hammer.
As well as possessing the two fastest performances of all time, Kipyegon hasn&rsquo;t been beaten in the 1500m since 2021, and even then she rebounded to win her second Olympic title.
Like she did in Budapest, Kipyegon targets a 1500m and 5000m double in Paris. But this time, the 5000m comes first. If all goes to plan, she&rsquo;ll race the 5000m final on Monday 5 August and then return to the track for the 1500m heats the next day. The semifinals are on 8 August, and the final is two days after that.
Her competition in both events could include <a href="https://worldathletics.org/athletes/ethiopia/gudaf-tsegay-14595214" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Gudaf Tsegay</a> &ndash; Ethiopia&rsquo;s world 5000m champion in 2022 and world 10,000m champion in 2023, and the athlete who improved Kipyegon&rsquo;s world 5000m record to 14:00.21 in September.
Like Kipyegon, Tsegay is also in the 1500m form of her life right now, having run 3:50.30 &ndash; the fourth-fastest time in history &ndash; in Xiamen in April. She followed that by clocking 29:05.92 for 10,000m in Eugene in May, a performance that places her No.3 all time.&nbsp;
Tsegay hasn&rsquo;t competed since then, but should she race every event she is entered for in Paris, the 27-year-old will also have the 10,000m in her legs as it is sandwiched between the 1500m semifinals and final, on 9 August.
Such is the standard of the event, the entry list includes another five women in the world all-time top 13. Australia&rsquo;s <a href="https://worldathletics.org/athletes/australia/jessica-hull-14464506" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jessica Hull</a> set a world 2000m record of 5:19.70 in Monaco on 12 July and just five days before that she had achieved an Oceanian record of 3:50.83 when finishing second behind Kipyegon&rsquo;s world 1500m record run in Paris.
&ldquo;Seeing what Faith has done has thrown the gauntlet out to all of us,&rdquo; Hull said later.
Tsegay&rsquo;s compatriots Birke Haylom and world 1500m silver medallist Diribe Welteji have also made their way up the all-time list with respective PBs of 3:53.22 and 3:53.75 this year, while Great Britain&rsquo;s Tokyo Olympic silver medallist <a href="https://worldathletics.org/athletes/great-britain-ni/laura-muir-14422111" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Laura Muir</a> ran a national record of 3:53.79 to finish third behind Kipyegon and Hull in Paris.
<a href="https://worldathletics.org/athletes/netherlands/sifan-hassan-14489606" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sifan Hassan</a>, whose incredible range has seen her win global titles in the 1500m, 5000m and 10,000m, as well as claim major marathon wins in London and Chicago, is entered for the 1500m in Paris but is set to focus on the 5000m, 10,000m and marathon.
Nikki Hiltz ran 3:55.33 to win at the national trials and leads the US entries, joined by Emily Mackay and Elle St. Pierre.
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<h2>Men's 1500m</h2>
<a href="https://worldathletics.org/competitions/olympic-games/paris24/athletes?competitionGroup=olympic-games&amp;urlSlug=paris24&amp;sexCode=M&amp;disciplineCode=1500" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Entries</a> | <a href="https://worldathletics.org/en/competitions/olympic-games/paris24/timetable/bydiscipline/men/1500-metres" target="_blank" rel="noopener">timetable</a> |&nbsp;<a href="https://worldathletics.org/world-rankings/1500m/men" target="_blank" rel="noopener">world rankings</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="https://worldathletics.org/records/toplists/middlelong/1500-metres/all/men/senior/2024" target="_blank" rel="noopener">2024 world list</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="https://worldathletics.org/records/all-time-toplists/middlelong/1500-metres/all/men/senior" target="_blank" rel="noopener">world all-time list</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="https://worldathletics.org/disciplines/middlelong/1500-metres" target="_blank" rel="noopener">how it works</a>
&bull; Jakob Ingebrigtsen vs Josh Kerr as rivalry intensifies &bull; Timothy Cheruiyot targets another podium place &bull;&nbsp;Yared Nuguse and&nbsp;Brian Komen also among medal contenders
<div><img style="max-width: 900px; width: 100%; display: block;" src="https://assets.aws.worldathletics.org/610e7f05455c4a1d10ace1c8.jpg" alt="Jakob Ingebrigtsen wins the 1500m at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games" />
Jakob Ingebrigtsen wins the 1500m at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games (&copy; Getty Images)
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<a href="https://worldathletics.org/athletes/norway/jakob-ingebrigtsen-14653717" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jakob Ingebrigtsen</a> vs <a href="https://worldathletics.org/athletes/great-britain-ni/josh-kerr-14533464" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Josh Kerr</a> has fast become one of the sport&rsquo;s great rivalries.
Ingebrigtsen: Norway&rsquo;s defending Olympic 1500m champion who recently improved his own European record to 3:26.73 in Monaco.
And Kerr: Great Britain&rsquo;s world champion who beat Ingebrigtsen the last time they clashed in the mile at the Diamond League meeting in Eugene in May.
&ldquo;It&rsquo;s a good fight,&rdquo; Ingebrigtsen said after that race. &ldquo;Some of my competitors have clearly taken a step in the right direction but not a big step &ndash; not as big of a step that maybe is needed to be the favourite in Paris. But I think if anything, this is going to be an exciting summer.&rdquo;
Since then, Ingebrigtsen has been unbeaten &ndash; winning the Diamond League 1500m on home soil in Oslo, European 1500m and 5000m titles in Rome, a Norwegian Championships double, and that 1500m in Monaco for his biggest statement so far.
Running 3:26.73, the 23-year-old strengthened his place at No.4 on the world all-time list and beat many of the athletes who will likely line up among his challengers in Paris.
Olympic bronze medallist Kerr, meanwhile, has raced just twice since his Eugene mile win, in the UK Championships 800m heats and final. Prior to that 3:45.34 national record-breaking performance in Eugene that places him sixth all time, the 26-year-old won the world indoor 3000m title on home soil in Glasgow.
Their head-to-head record stands at 8-1 in Ingebrigtsen&rsquo;s favour when it comes to 1500m finals, but since his Olympic title win in Tokyo, the Norwegian has been unable to assert dominance in the discipline on the global stage. He secured 1500m silver behind Kerr&rsquo;s compatriot Jake Wightman in Oregon in 2022 but followed that with the 5000m title five days later, and did the same in Budapest last year &ndash; finishing runner-up to Kerr in the shorter event before retaining his 5000m title four days on.
If Ingebrigtsen can do it this time, a win in Paris would see him become just the second man after Sebastian Coe in 1980 and 1984 to win two Olympic 1500m titles.
But if Ingebrigtsen can't replicate his recent form in the French capital, then Kerr and a number of other challengers will be ready to kick.
Kenya&rsquo;s <a href="https://worldathletics.org/athletes/kenya/timothy-cheruiyot-14643526" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Timothy Cheruiyot</a> won the world title in 2019, claimed world silver in 2017 and finished second to Ingebrigtsen in Tokyo.
The 28-year-old, who set his PB of 3:28.28 in 2021, also followed Ingebrigtsen over the line in Oslo and Monaco this year, running 3:28.71 &ndash; his fourth-fastest time &ndash; at the latter.
If the race is fast paced, then <a href="https://worldathletics.org/athletes/united-states/yared-nuguse-14798735" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Yared Nuguse</a> will also be a strong contender. The 25-year-old finished fifth in Budapest but claimed world indoor 3000m silver behind Kerr in Glasgow and ran a North American 1500m record of 3:29.02 in Oslo last year. Cole Hocker and Hobbs Kessler join him on the US team.
Kenya&rsquo;s Brian Komen took three-and-a-half seconds off his PB to run 3:28.80 for third &ndash; one place ahead of Nuguse &ndash; in Monaco and will want to build on that in Paris. Neil Gourley was fifth in Monaco and he joins Kerr on the British team.
Home hopes are led by <a href="https://worldathletics.org/athletes/france/azeddine-habz-14640588" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Azeddine Habz</a>, who won the Diamond League race in Marrakech and ran 3:30.80 for third place in Oslo, one spot ahead of Portugal&rsquo;s Isaac Nader in a PB of 3:30.84.
Others hoping to feature in the final will be Australia&rsquo;s Oliver Hoare and Norway&rsquo;s world bronze medallist Narve Gilje Nordas, while 19-year-old Niels Laros of the Netherlands steps up after running a world U20 1000m record of 2:14.37 in July.
Jess Whittington for World Athletics

Expected highlights in the 1500m at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games

Paris Olympics preview: 1500m

The road to sporting glory often leads through ups and downs. Along the way, there are key milestones that every athlete passes.
In the latest instalment of a new series where athletes reflect on five key steps on their path to the Paris Olympic Games, Australian runner <a href="https://worldathletics.org/athletes/australia/jessica-hull-14464506" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jessica Hull</a> &ndash; who recently set an <a href="https://worldathletics.org/competitions/diamond-league/news/meeting-de-paris-diamond-league-2024-world-record" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Oceanian 1500m record in Paris</a> and a <a href="https://worldathletics.org/competitions/diamond-league/news/monaco-herculis-2024-world-record-hull-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">world 2000m record in Monaco</a> &ndash; recounts the journey that has got her to this point in her career.
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<h2>I fell into distance running and realised I was good at it&hellip;</h2>
&hellip;In Australia, at least in New South Wales where I went to school, you have to do the school cross country carnival from the third grade. I jumped in at year two and at that point you are grouped with the third graders. I was able to win the school carnival and it was really fun. I got into the thrill of trying to be a little bit better as I went through.
I joined Albion Park Little Athletics club, where you would go on a Friday night and do a sprint, a jump, a throw and a distance race. I tried everything; I did the shot put, the high jump, the long jump &ndash; not very well! But distance was my thing.
Distance running became something that I got to do with my dad, Simon. He was a runner and he has been a big influence on my career &ndash; he coached me as a junior and we have come back around full circle to him coaching me now. We never trained crazy when I was a kid, I did things very progressively. I would run a little bit in the mornings before school with my dad and I was not a morning person back then, but I would get up to do that! I gradually progressed and loved it, and I still think I love it more every day.
<div><img style="max-width: 900px; width: 100%; display: block;" src="https://assets.aws.worldathletics.org/6697a1799422be9489fc39a5.jpg" alt="Jessica Hull competes in the 2015 Australian U20 Athletics Championships" />
Jessica Hull competes in the 2015 Australian U20 Athletics Championships (&copy; Getty Images)
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<h2>In Australia we have been exposed to some incredibly great athletes&hellip;</h2>
&hellip;I&rsquo;m a little too young to remember Sydney 2000 but the legacy it left is insane. Every one of us can probably recite the Cathy Freeman 400m call from Bruce (McAvaney) off by heart! That was a pivotal moment. My youngest memory of the Olympics and how much it meant to someone &ndash; the magnitude of it &ndash; was watching Sally Pearson win gold in London. Watching her wait to find out if she won the gold &ndash; we were all waiting with her. That&rsquo;s something that still gives me goosebumps to think back on.
From my event point, I went to the same Little Athletics club as Ryan Gregson and I remember when he broke the Australian 1500m record in Monaco in 2010. We were driving to state cross country the next morning and I was looking at the results on my mum&rsquo;s phone. I knew Ryan, I&rsquo;d followed his whole junior career and he was a link that was close to what I was doing, with the same club and the same event group. It kind of humanised it &ndash; that hey, we Australians can get among that too.
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<h2>The 2014 World U20 Championships in Eugene was so special&hellip;</h2>
&hellip;It was such an introduction to what is possible on a global scale. It gave me the taste, like: &lsquo;I really like doing this &ndash; I want to come back for more!&rsquo; That was a perfect segue to eventually signing on to run at the University of Oregon and I ran there for four years under Maurica Powell and Helen Lehman-Winters.
It was the perfect step in development at that point, to go to college and to develop there and work with those coaches that made me enjoy the process even more. I still have a fantastic relationship with Maurica now, I lean on her for a lot of things. She showed me that the sport is bigger than yourself and if you can really lean into that, it&rsquo;s pretty powerful.
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<h2>Getting sick for the final in Oregon 2022 made me even hungrier to go back in Budapest and get the result I knew I had worked for&hellip;</h2>
&hellip;Each championship builds on another. Doha (the 2019 World Championships) was my first senior championships and I think the best thing &ndash; up until this season &ndash; is I hadn&rsquo;t really had that race that I was like: &lsquo;I&rsquo;m really satisfied&rsquo;. I&rsquo;d been hungry for more the whole way through.
<div><img style="max-width: 900px; width: 100%; display: block;" src="https://assets.aws.worldathletics.org/6697a1f0b31a9ff32abbbe39.jpg" alt="Jessica Hull in action at the World Athletics Championships in Doha in 2019" />
Jessica Hull in action at the World Athletics Championships in Doha in 2019 (&copy; Getty Images)
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In Doha I got to the semis, so logically the next goal is you want to make a final. I was lucky enough to do that in Tokyo in 2021. I made that final, but I probably wasn&rsquo;t as prepared to be in that final as you&rsquo;d want to be. So then Eugene and Budapest (the 2022 and 2023 World Championships) became about making the final and having an impact in the final. I finished in Budapest thinking: &lsquo;I&rsquo;m getting there, but I have a little way to go&rsquo; and I can see it&rsquo;s coming &ndash; I just have to stay committed.
I feel that I have that experience now in my races. I now feel more ready than ever to try, and that probably led to Paris (her 3:50.83 Oceanian 1500m record at Meeting de Paris) where I thought: &lsquo;I&rsquo;m really ready and I&rsquo;m just going to see what happens&rsquo;.
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<h2>Seeing what Faith has done has thrown the gauntlet out to all of us&hellip;</h2>
&hellip;In the moment (after her 3:50.83 1500m in Paris) I was absolutely stunned. I was like, &lsquo;what have I done? I can&rsquo;t believe this!&rsquo; But as I have reflected, I can see the steps that led to it. I have ticked all the boxes in training, I have trained hard and consistently, and I have been healthy for a long time. My last major injury was in 2020, so I have put four years of work together.
I&rsquo;ve been able to train at a new level this year and my body is strong enough to handle that. And I think we have all just watched Faith Kipyegon do what Faith&rsquo;s done the last few years. Like hey, if you want to be as good as Faith, this is what you have to do. She has certainly had a huge effect on our event group, and she has led by such an example that she has brought us all with her.
<div><img style="max-width: 900px; width: 100%; display: block;" src="https://assets.aws.worldathletics.org/6697a258b31a9ff32abbbe3c.jpg" alt="Jessica Hull celebrates with Faith Kipyegon after Kipyegon's world 1500m record in Florence" />
Jessica Hull celebrates with Faith Kipyegon after Kipyegon's world 1500m record in Florence (&copy; Getty Images)
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I remember in Florence last year, when she broke the world 1500m record for the first time &ndash; I was so excited for her and I hadn&rsquo;t had a moment to have a one-on-one with her. Eventually she came back to the dining hall and before I could even congratulate her, she was congratulating me on the Australian record, which was so miniscule compared to what she had done! Having had her lead the way, encourage us all to come along with her and been so exemplary in what she has done, it has totally changed our event. Over the next 12 months our event is going to go to an absolutely insane level and it&rsquo;s a pretty special time to be part of it.

Australian runner Jessica Hull recounts the journey that has got her to this point in her career