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Athletics At The 2024 Summer Olympics – Men's 1500 Metres
The men's 1500 metres at the Olympics, 1500 metres at the 2024 Summer Olympics was held in four rounds at the Stade de France in Paris, France, between 2 and 6 August 2024. This was the 30th time that the men's 1500 metres was contested at the Summer Olympics. A total of 45 athletes were able to qualify for the event by entry standard or ranking. Summary Given the rivalry between Norway, Norway's Olympic 1500-metre champion, and World 5000-metre champion, Jakob Ingebrigtsen and United Kingdom, Great Britain's World 1500-metre champion, and World indoor 3000-metre champion, Josh Kerr (runner), Josh Kerr, the men's 1500 metres at the 2024 Summer Olympics had been billed as a "Race for the Ages" by World Athletics President, middle-distance great, and double Olympic champion over the 'metric mile', Sebastian Coe. Ingebrigtsen had won the Olympic title three years earlier and his confidence and high expectations had affected his race strategy in recent years. After comfortably ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stade De France
Stade de France (, ) is the national stadium of France, located just north of Paris in the commune of Saint-Denis, Seine-Saint-Denis, Saint-Denis. Its seating capacity of 80,698 makes it the List of football stadiums in France, largest stadium in France. The architecture of the Stade de France is inspired by the Worldport (Pan Am), Worldport of the American airline Pan Am, Pan American at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York. The stadium is used by the France national football team, French national football and France national rugby union team, rugby union teams for international competitions. It is the largest in Europe for sport of athletics, athletics events, seating 77,083 in that configuration. During other events, the stadium's running track is mostly hidden under the grandstands. Initially built for the 1998 FIFA World Cup and the Bids for the 2008 Summer Olympics, 2008 Summer Olympics failed bid the stadium's name was recommended by Michel Platini, head of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diamond League
The Diamond League is an annual series of elite track and field athletic competitions comprising fifteen invitational athletics meetings. The series sits in the top tier of the World Athletics one-day meet competitions. The inaugural season was in 2010. It was designed to replace the IAAF Golden League, which had been held annually since 1998. The full sponsorship name is the Wanda Diamond League, the result of an agreement with Wanda Group that was announced in December 2019. While the Golden League was formed to increase the profile of the leading European athletics competitions, the Diamond League's aim is to "enhance the worldwide appeal of athletics by going outside Europe for the first time." In addition to the original Golden League members (except Berlin) and other traditional European competitions, the series now includes events in China, Qatar, Morocco, and the United States. Beginning in March 2022, after the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Diamond League exclu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hobbs Kessler
Hobbs Kessler (born March 15, 2003) is an American middle-distance runner. He competes professionally for Adidas, having turned professional directly after high school. He holds the North American U20 record in the 1500 meters, having run 3:34.36 in 2021 during his senior year in high school. He briefly held the world record in the road mile set while winning the 2023 World Road Running Championships until it was broken by Emmanuel Wanyonyi on April 27, 2024. At the 2024 World Athletics Indoor Championships, he secured a bronze medal in the 1500 m. In June 2024, he made the United States Olympic Team by finishing third in the 1500m and second in the 800m at the 2024 United States Olympic Trials. He is the first American male athlete to qualify for the Olympic 1500m and 800m double since 1976. At the 2024 Summer Olympics, he finished fifth in the 1500 meter final. Running career High School Kessler competed for Skyline High School in Ann Arbor, Michigan, as the high sc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Repechage
Repechage ( , ; , ) is a practice in series competitions that allows participants who failed to meet qualifying standards by a small margin to continue to the next round. A well-known example is the wild card system. Types Different types of repechage can occur. As a basis for the examples below, assume that 64 competitors are divided into four pools of 16 competitors, labeled A, B, C, and D. The first three rounds of the primary championship bracket winnow the field down to eight competitors for the quarter-final. Full repechage In full repechage, a competitor who loses to the pool winner falls into the repechage bracket. The theory is that a worthy competitor who is paired with another worthy competitor should not be unduly penalized by luck of the draw, but have an opportunity to fight for at least third place. In our example, four competitors from each pool (the loser to the pool winner in the first, second, third and quarter-final rounds) fall into the repechage br ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Narve Gilje Nordås
Narve Gilje Nordås (born 30 September 1998) is a Norwegian Track and field, athlete competing in Middle-distance running, middle-distance and Long-distance running, long-distance events. He is a World Athletics Championships, World Championships (2023 World Athletics Championships, 2023) bronze medalist and two-time Olympic Games, Olympian, having competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics, 2020 and 2024 Summer Olympics, 2024 Summer Olympic Games, Summer Olympics. Personal life Born in Klepp on 30 September 1998, Nordås represents the club Sandnes IL, and is coached by Gjert Ingebrigtsen. Career Nordås won the gold medal in the men's 5000 metres and a silver medal in the men's 10,000 metres at the 2020 Norwegian Athletics Championships. He placed fifth in the 2021 European Athletics Indoor Championships – Men's 3000 metres, 3000 metres event at the 2021 European Athletics Indoor Championships. In 2021, Nordås was selected to represent Norway at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neil Gourley
Neil Gourley (born 7 February 1995) is a Scottish middle-distance runner specialising in the 1500 metres. He won the silver medal in the event at both the 2025 World Athletics Indoor Championships and the 2023 European Indoor Championships and bronze at the 2015 European Under-23 Championships. Gourley is the European indoor record holder for the mile and the British indoor record holder for the 1500 m. He is a three-time national champion (1500 m). Career Neil Gourley won the bronze medal in the 1500 metres at the 2015 European Under-23 Championships. He competed collegiately for the Virginia Tech Hokies, where in 2018 he anchored the men's distance medley relay team to an NCAA championship title. In 2019, Gourley reached the final of his specialist event in front of the home crowd at the European Indoor Championships in Glasgow but was unable to compete in it due an illness. On 25 February 2023, the 28-year-old broke Josh Kerr's British indoor 1500 m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brian Komen
Brian Komen (born 10 August 1998) is a Kenyan middle-distance runner. He was a gold medalist at the 2023 African Games over 1500 metres. Career In April 2024, Komen ran a personal best for 1500 metres in Nairobi of 3:32.29. Competing indoors in 2024, he finished runner-up at the Sparkassen Indoor Meeting in Dortmund over 1500 metres, before finishing eighth and fourth respectively at the Czech Indoor Gala in Prague and at the Metz Moselle Athleor in France. His time of 3:37.42 in Metz was an indoors personal best. Komen won the Kenyan African Games national trials, beating Abel Kipsang into second place in Nairobi in a time of 3:38.26. On 22 March 2024, he was a gold medalist over 1500 metres at the 2023 African Games in Accra in a time of 3:39.19. On 20 April 2024, he was the runner-up over 1500 metres at the Kip Keino Classic in Kenya. In May 2024, he won the 1500 metres at the 2024 Doha Diamond League event. On 12 July 2024, he ran a personal best 3:28.80 for the 1500 metres ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Timothy Cheruiyot
Timothy Cheruiyot (born 20 November 1995) is a Kenyan middle-distance runner specialising in the 1500 metres. He is the 2020 Tokyo Olympic silver medallist in the event and the 11th fastest athlete all time over the distance. At the World Athletics Championships, Cheruiyot won the silver medal in 2017 in London, and a gold in 2019 in Doha. He took the silver medal in his specialty event at the 2018 and 2022 Commonwealth Games, and is also a two-time African Championship silver medallist from 2016 and 2018. Cheruiyot won the 1500 m Diamond League title on four occasions: in 2017, 2018, 2019, and 2021. Personal life and career Cheruiyot is from the town of Singorwet, in Bomet County, Kenya, and lives on a farm with his family. Beginning in 2014, he began to train in the outskirts of Nairobi, via the Rongai Athletics Club, under Coach Bernard Ouma. Early Career: 2015-2018 2015 Cheruiyot's first major milestone in his career was competing on Kenya's Distance Medle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bowerman Mile
The Bowerman Mile is a prestigious and historic mile race for elite middle distance runners held annually at the Prefontaine Classic in Eugene, Oregon. Along with Oslo's Dream Mile and New York's Wanamaker Mile, the Bowerman Mile is among the world's premier track mile races, and one of the few examples of a major international mile race, since the 1500 meters is the much more common event. The Bowerman Mile, and the Prefontaine Classic as a whole, is famous for its "Hayward Magic", where the crowds and energy of Hayward Field push competitors to fast times. In fact, between the Bowerman Mile and other mile races held at the University of Oregon, Hayward Field has seen more than 500 sub-four minute mile clockings, the most of any facility in the world. History The Prefontaine Classic began in 1973, as a Hayward Restoration meeting. Two years later, the meet was officially founded and was set to be named the "Bowerman Classic" after University of Oregon Coach Bill Bowerman. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hicham El Guerrouj
Hicham El Guerrouj (; ; born 14 September 1974) is a retired Moroccan middle-distance runner. El Guerrouj is the current world record holder for the 1500 metres and mile, and the former world record holder in the 2000 metres. He is the only man since Paavo Nurmi to win a gold medal in both the 1500 m and 5000 metres at the same Olympic Games. El Guerrouj is widely regarded as the greatest middle-distance runner in history and, as of October 2024, still holds six of the 10 fastest times ever run in the 1500 m as well as seven of the 15 fastest times in the mile. He and Jakob Ingebrigtsen are the only men in history to have broken both 3:27 in the 1500 m and 3:44 in the mile. El Guerrouj remains the only man in history to have broken 3:27 in the 1500 m more than once, having done so five times. He won a gold medal in the 1500 m at the 1997, 1999, 2001, and 2003 World Athletics Championships. He won the World Athlete of the Year award three times, and in November 2014, was i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2023 World Athletics Championships – Men's 5000 Metres
The men's 5000 metres at the 2023 World Athletics Championships was held at the National Athletics Centre in Budapest on 24 and 27 August 2023. Norwegian Jakob Ingebrigtsen won the gold medal, followed by Mohamed Katir and Jacob Krop. Summary There was a little drama in the opening heats. World record holder Joshua Cheptegei did not run. In the first heat, Sam Parsons tripped. As he went down, Stewie McSweyn tripped over him and was taken out of contention. Referees awarded McSweyn a place in the final. Seventeen athletes toed the line. After sorting things out for two laps at 68 seconds per lap pace, Ishmael Rokitto Kipkurui threw in a 62 and nobody went with him. They let him have his day in the sun for 4 laps, then the peloton reeled him in. A leading pack mostly led by Berihu Aregawi then picked up the pace, 65, 62, 63, but the pack stayed as a group, very few were dropping off the pace. Three laps to go, it was time to race. While the Ethiopians Aregawi and H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
