Team USA secured a stunning — and historic — result in the men’s 1500m final at the 2024 Paris Olympics.
American Cole Hocker stormed past reigning Olympic champion Jakob Ingebrigtsen of Norway and world champion Josh Kerr of Great Britain in the race’s final 100 meters to secure the upset victory at Stade de France on Tuesday.
Ingebrigtsen and Kerr were viewed as the race’s top favorites, but Hocker simply wouldn’t be denied as he rallied to the top of the podium with an Olympic-record time of 3:27.65.
Kerr, the reigning Olympic bronze medalist, finished second in 3:27.79 to take silver, while American Yared Nuguse claimed bronze with a time of 3:27.80. It marked the first time that the U.S. had two medalists in the men’s 1500m since all the way back at the 1912 Stockholm Games.
Hocker, an Indianapolis native, and Nuguse, a Louisville, Kentucky, native, each made the Olympic podium for the first time. Hocker placed sixth in the event at the pandemic-delayed 2020 Tokyo Games, while Nuguse was forced to withdraw from the Tokyo Games due to a quad injury.
In a stunner, Ingebrigtsen finished one spot off the podium with a time of 3:28.24. The only other American in the race, Hobbs Kessler, finished fifth in 3:29.45.
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Publish date : 2024-08-06 08:58:00
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