Paris 2024 Olympics: Great Britain’s Josh Kerr takes 1500m silver behind shock champion Cole Hocker
Great Britain’s Josh Kerr was made to settle for Olympic 1500m silver behind shock champion Cole Hocker, as Jakob Ingebrigtsen missed out on a medal.
As world gold medallist Kerr and defending Olympic champion Ingebrigtsen played out their anticipated battle for the title, American Hocker found his way past both on the inside to clinch his first global outdoor title.
With a perfectly timed final surge, Hocker took gold in an Olympic record three minutes 27.65 seconds.
Kerr, who upgraded his Olympic bronze from Tokyo, crossed the line in a British record 3:27.79 as another American athlete, Yared Nuguse, ran a personal best 3:27.80 for bronze.
Norway’s Ingebrigtsen led from the front but faded in the closing stages to miss the podium in fourth, having lost out in successive world 1500m finals to Kerr and fellow Briton Jake Wightman since his Tokyo triumph.
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