To anybody who doubted the probability of Jakob Ingebrigtsen defending his Olympic 1,500m title in Paris subsequent month, these doubts had been put to relaxation on Friday in Monaco, when the Norwegian ran a blistering 3:26.74 to interrupt his personal European document by greater than 1 / 4 of a second. His time is the fourth quickest in historical past, and fewer than three quarters of a second off Hicham El Gherrouj’s world document of three:26.00.
MONACO MAGIC 🪄
🇳🇴’s Jakob Ingebrigtsen smashes the European 1500m document with 3:26.73 🥵
He’s the primary man to interrupt 3:27 since 2015 ‼️#DiamondLeague pic.twitter.com/HsiJRRsaZx
— World Athletics (@WorldAthletics) July 12, 2024
It was additionally Ingebrigtsen’s first victory on this occasion on the Monaco Diamond League. He went to the entrance early within the race, which additionally included Kenya’s Timothy Cheruiyot, American document holder Yared Nuguse and Australia’s Ollie Hoare, chasing the wave lights and difficult the pacer to remain within the race till the bell. Nobody was capable of match his pace, and he pulled away across the closing bend, beating Cheruiyot (who ran a season’s finest 3:28.71) by virtually two seconds. Kenya’s Brian Komen was third, with a brand new private finest of three:28.80, and Nuguse was fourth, with a season’s finest 3:29.13.
It was a repeat of Ingebrigtsen’s efficiency in Oslo final month, when he beat Cheruiyot by diving throughout the end line.
He set the earlier European document at 3:27.95 final yr at Oslo Diamond League.
Ladies’s world and Canadian information go down
In different occasions, Australia’s Jessica Hull broke the ladies’s 2,000m world document with 5:19.70, and Lucia Stafford broke the Canadian document with 5:31.18. For that story, click on right here.
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