Norway&rsquo;s Jakob Ingebrigsten had an Olympic title, but he had never won a World Championships gold medal.
After being upset in the 1500m by Jake Wightman only a few days ago at the World Athletics Championships Oregon22, a world gold still eluded him.
If he wanted to end his drought, he was going to have to topple a star-studded field in the men&rsquo;s 5000m that included the world record-holder, Uganda&rsquo;s Joshua Cheptegei, who had earned gold over 10,000m earlier in the championships.
But Ingebrigtsen did exactly that, winging up the pace in the final kilometre to win in 13:09.24. Kenya&rsquo;s Jacob Krop took silver in 13:09.98, while Uganda&rsquo;s Oscar Chelimo earned bronze in 13:10.20, a season&rsquo;s best.
Ingebrigtsen spent almost half the race towards the back of the pack and didn't make his move until after the field had covered two kilometres, going from 10th place into fifth. He remained near the front over the next few laps, then he moved into first with 600 metres left.
From then on, he never relinquished the lead. Ingebrigtsen led 11 men through the bell, less than a second spread among them. As the pack strung out and the finalists started to unleash their finishing kick, Ingebrigtsen held off all of them and extended his lead as he neared the line.
The Norwegian could even afford to take a couple of last looks behind him, before flashing a &lsquo;No.1&rsquo; gesture to the fans on the homestretch.
&ldquo;It feels amazing to win this gold,&rdquo; said Ingebrigtsen. &ldquo;This is already my fifth attempt to become a world champion outdoors and my third World Championships. So finally, I became the world champion.&rdquo;
Cheptegei led through the first three laps, but by the halfway mark, he had dropped to eighth. Leading the pack was Kenya&rsquo;s Nicholas Kipkorir Kimeli and Daniel Simiu Ebenyo, who often took turns at the front early on. In pursuit were Guatemala&rsquo;s Luis Grijalva, Ingebrigsten and USA&rsquo;s Grant Fisher.
Through 4000m, just 0.75 separated the top 12. Krop had taken the lead, but the race remained conservative, with no one looking to push the pace, setting the stage for the raucous bell lap.
Ingebrigtsen and Krop passed through the bell first, holding their positions the rest of the way. However, Chelimo was still in ninth, and Fisher was in third, only 0.11 behind the top two. Chelimo remained in eighth until the final 200 metres, where he moved into fifth, still trailing Fisher and Canada&rsquo;s Mohammed Ahmed.
As the three men came around the curve, with the bronze still up for grabs, Fisher hit the inside rail, causing the American to drop behind. Chelimo took advantage, as did Grijalva, and both men moved ahead. Chelimo&rsquo;s kick was too strong for either Grijalva or Ahmed to handle, as he edged both men by less than 0.25.
Grijalva finished fourth, achieving the best finish for his country in any event at the World Championships.
&ldquo;It feels amazing. I have always run a PB in the races,&rdquo; said Grijalva. &ldquo;I almost won a medal, the first for Central America.&rdquo;
Krop said he knew the race would be tactical, but he was ready for it.
&ldquo;They just made me push on the last lap and attack,&rdquo; said Krop. &ldquo;In the end, it looked like everybody wanted to get to the podium. I had my position and when I kicked, I wanted to maintain the spot, but Jakob had a strong kick too.&rdquo;
For Chelimo, the bronze finish comes after a few disappointing outings recently.
&ldquo;I had some difficult times in the past years, I was happy last year to qualify in Tokyo, but then I came last so I had to ask why,&rdquo; said Chelimo. &ldquo;But my coach told me that I am a champion. He said, &lsquo;forget about the past, just continue racing&rsquo;.&rdquo;
Elias Esquivel for World Athletics
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<td style="width: 60%; background-color: #e9c968;">Jakob Ingebrigtsen 🇳🇴 NOR</td>
<td style="width: 30%; background-color: #e9c968;">13:09.24</td>
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<td style="width: 60%; background-color: #ced4d9;">Jacob Krop 🇰🇪 KEN</td>
<td style="width: 30%; background-color: #ced4d9;">13:09.98</td>
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<td style="width: 60%; background-color: #bd895e;">Oscar Chelimo 🇺🇬 UGA</td>
<td style="width: 30%; background-color: #bd895e;">13:10.20 SB</td>
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World Athletics Championships, Oregon 2022

Men's 5000m report

Ingebrigtsen wins first world title with 5000m gold in Oregon

Britain&rsquo;s Jake Wightman stunned the Olympic champion, the defending world champion and himself at the World Athletics Championships Oregon22 on Tuesday (19), running the race of his life to take the 1500m title.
Winding up to a world-leading PB of 3:29.23, the 28-year-old European and Commonwealth bronze medallist left Jakob Ingebrigtsen with no response as he surged down the home straight, eyes fixed firmly ahead. As the finish line neared, the Briton first raised his arms wide and then threw his hands to his head in disbelief, Norway&rsquo;s Olympic champion Ingebrigtsen following him home in 3:29.47 and Spain&rsquo;s Mohamed Katir coming through for bronze in 3:29.90.
&ldquo;That&rsquo;s my son,&rdquo; came the voice over the loudspeaker, the race having been called by in-stadium announcer Geoff Wightman &ndash; father and coach of the winner, &ldquo;and he&rsquo;s the world champion.&rdquo;
Left disappointed after a 10th-place finish at the Olympic Games in Tokyo, Jake Wightman went back to work. He focused on building his strength over the winter, returning to some cross country racing and doing over-distance work as he refocused on Oregon.
Achieving his aim of staying under the radar through the rounds, he took his place on the Hayward Field start line with Ingebrigtsen to his left and Katir to his right. Kenya&rsquo;s Abel Kipsang, who had the season&rsquo;s quickest time going into the race, went straight to the front and led from Ingebrigtsen and Kenya&rsquo;s defending champion Timothy Cheruiyot, with Wightman sitting in behind them. Ingebrigtsen, who broke the world indoor 1500m record with 3:30.60 in February, moved to the front with two laps to go, with Kipsang and Cheruiyot on his shoulder and Wightman tracking their every move.
At the bell it was Ingebrigtsen from Cheruiyot and Wightman, with Kipsang running wide on his shoulder. Judging the race to perfection, the Briton first surged past Cheruiyot, moving into the lead ahead of Ingebrigtsen with just over 200m to go.
As he left the bend, the anticipated kick from Ingebrigtsen never came. Glancing over his shoulder, the Norwegian looked like he knew he was beaten and settled for silver, followed by Katir and his Spanish teammate Mario Garcia, running a PB of 3:30.20 for fourth.
Wightman&rsquo;s British compatriot Josh Kerr &ndash; the Olympic 1500m bronze medallist &ndash; finished fifth in 3:30.60, just ahead of Cheruiyot (3:30.69) and Kipsang (3:31.21).
&ldquo;It probably won&rsquo;t sink in until I have retired,&rdquo; said Wightman, who has run 1:44.18 for 800m and clocked a 3000m PB of 7:37.81 indoors in February. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s mad. I had such a disappointing year in Tokyo last year. I don&rsquo;t think people realise how crushing it was to go in with such high expectations and come away hoping for a medal but ending up 10th.&rdquo;
His parents &ndash; both former elite marathon runners &ndash; were at Hayward Field to see him win, his father on the commentary mic and his mother, Susan, in the stands.
&ldquo;Dad can be a bit of a robot on the mic sometimes,&rdquo; smiled Wightman junior, whose time in Oregon is the third-quickest in World Championships history. &ldquo;Some say robot, some say professional. I hope he broke that down today. My mum was in tears, so someone was crying.&rdquo;
Reflecting on the race, he added: &ldquo;The strength for me is that if I can get there with 200m to go, I will always make a move because it&rsquo;s how I feel best running. As soon as the opportunity was there to go past, I just wanted to be leading the bend. The only perk of having a good 800m PB in races like that is if you are still there with 200m to go, which I haven&rsquo;t managed to be in previous years.
&ldquo;Even when I was coming down the home straight I felt strong, but Jakob is a beast and I never knew if he was going to come past.&rdquo;
But he didn&rsquo;t. Wightman's last lap was timed at 54.84, Ingebrigtsen&rsquo;s was 55.24. In Tokyo, the Norwegian clocked 54.42 for the final 400m.
&ldquo;I was feeling good, but I couldn't keep up with Jake in the last 200m,&rdquo; said Ingebrigtsen. &ldquo;I'm owning it. I am very disappointed by not winning, but I'm very happy for him. He is a great runner.&rdquo;
He will now refocus on the 5000m, the heats for which take place on Thursday.
It was the 5000m that Katir contested at last year&rsquo;s Olympics, the 24-year-old finishing eighth, but after setting national records at 1500m, 3000m, 5000m and 10km last year his decision to race the shorter event in Oregon paid off as he bagged the bronze with his second-fastest ever time.
Just behind him was European U23 silver medallist and NCAA runner-up Garcia, who runs for the University of Mississippi and achieved the fastest ever time by a collegiate athlete.
Cheruiyot has been some way off his best form this season and although making his presence felt in the early stages, he didn&rsquo;t have the strength in the finish and faded out of medal contention.
Ethiopia&rsquo;s Samuel Tefera won the world indoor title ahead of Ingebrigtsen and Kipsang in Belgrade in March but finished ninth in his semifinal in Oregon, missing out on the final.
Jess Whittington for World Athletics
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<td style="width: 60%; background-color: #e9c968;">Jake Wightman 🇬🇧 GBR</td>
<td style="width: 30%; background-color: #e9c968;">3:29.23 WL</td>
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<td style="width: 10%; background-color: #ced4d9; text-align: center;">🥈</td>
<td style="width: 60%; background-color: #ced4d9;">Jakob Ingebrigtsen 🇳🇴 NOR</td>
<td style="width: 30%; background-color: #ced4d9;">3:29.47 SB</td>
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<td style="width: 10%; background-color: #bd895e; text-align: center;">🥉</td>
<td style="width: 60%; background-color: #bd895e;">Mohamed Katir 🇪🇸 ESP</td>
<td style="width: 30%; background-color: #bd895e;">3:29.90 SB</td>
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Britain’s Jake Wightman stunned the Olympic champion, the defending world champion and himself to win the 1500m title

Wightman gets "whirlwind" win to beat Ingebrigtsen to world 1500m title

A Wanda Diamond League record from Jakob Ingebrigtsen in the mile, along with meeting records from Mondo Duplantis in the pole vault and Femke Bol in the 400m hurdles brightened a rainy evening at the Bislett Games in Oslo on Thursday (16).
Ingebrigtsen has won almost all there is to win in middle-distance events, but a senior Dream Mile victory in Oslo was one thing missing from the 21-year-old&rsquo;s resume. In fact, before today no Norwegian man had ever won the prestigious discipline at the Bislett Games.
But, racing in the final individual track event of the night, Ingebrigtsen ensured the 15,000 fans at the Bislett Stadion went home happy as he won the mile in a Norwegian record of 3:46.46, breaking the Wanda Diamond League record in the process.
Paced through the first two laps in 56.01 and 1:53.30, Ingebrigtsen was tracked closely by Australia&rsquo;s Oliver Hoare and Britain&rsquo;s Jake Wightman for most of the race. The Olympic 1500m champion never appeared to be under too much strain, though &ndash; even when Hoare was attempting to close in on the leader with half a lap left.
Ingebrigtsen &ndash; roared on by the home crowd, many of whom were on their feet &ndash; kicked down the home straight and crossed the line in 3:46.46, taking almost a second off his own Norwegian record and moving up to sixth on the world all-time list, just 0.14 shy of Steve Cram&rsquo;s European record.
Hoare finished second in 3:47.48 to break the Oceanian record and move to 13th on the world all-time list. Wightman was third in a PB of 3:50.30 from fellow Brit Neil Gourley (3:52.91). There was also a national record for Charles Grethen of Luxembourg in fifth (3:53.20).
&ldquo;I was ready to run fast and was happy to do that and to win,&rdquo; said the world indoor silver medallist. &ldquo;Some work needs to be done before the World Championships, but I will work hard to be in better shape there.
&ldquo;Last year I was sick and couldn't race here, so it was even more special here tonight, as being the first Norwegian to win the Dream Mile. Doing things nobody else has done before is really great.&rdquo;
The on-off rainfall throughout the evening was far from ideal for pole vaulting, but Duplantis didn&rsquo;t seem too badly affected, the world record-holder winning with a world-leading 6.02m to break his own meeting record. 
<div><img style="max-width: 900px; width: 100%; display: block;" src="https://assets.aws.worldathletics.org/62ab8c3ed217ab0413f48df3.jpg" alt="Mondo Duplantis celebrates his world lead and meeting record in the pole vault at the Wanda Diamond League in Oslo" />
Mondo Duplantis celebrates his world lead and meeting record in the pole vault at the Wanda Diamond League in Oslo (&copy; AFP / Getty Images)
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He cleared 5.80m at the first time of asking, as did leading Norwegian duo Sondre Guttormsen and Pal Haugen Lillefosse. Duplantis skipped the next height, while the Norwegian pair were unsuccessful at a would-be national record height of 5.86m. As the sole entrant left in the competition, Duplantis moved on to 5.92m and needed all three tries to go clear.
He then moved the bar straight up to 6.02m, one centimetre higher than his meeting record from last year. He got over on his first try before ending his evening with a couple of unsuccessful tries at 6.10m.
&ldquo;I felt good, despite it being a hectic day with the rain coming on and off &ndash; it was tiring coping with that but I'm happy with 6.02m,&rdquo; said Duplantis, who will compete at the Wanda Diamond League meeting in Stockholm before turning his attention to the World Athletics Championships Oregon22. &ldquo;My legs ran out of steam, but the energy from the crowd was good, they helped a lot. I feel good ahead of the big dance.&rdquo;
Earlier in the evening the rain briefly eased just in time for the women&rsquo;s 400m hurdles. Bol, looking to improve on the 53.02 season&rsquo;s best she set last week in Rome, got off to a strong start and already had a clear lead at half way.
The Olympic bronze medallist entered the home straight unopposed and continued to pull away from the rest of the field. By the time she crossed the finish line in 52.61 &ndash; smashing the meeting record by almost half a second &ndash; Bol was more than two seconds clear of her rivals.
&ldquo;I was very surprised with the time as the weather wasn't the best and I stuttered into the last hurdle, so it was great to see that time,&rdquo; said Bol, who holds the European record at 52.03. &ldquo;It means a lot to take the meeting record. It's going to be a really busy summer but I'm ready for the challenge &ndash; I want to keep running fast and get some medals.&rdquo;
Ukraine&rsquo;s Anna Ryzhykova was second in 54.81, finishing just ahead of Britain&rsquo;s Jessie Knight (54.84).
Bol&rsquo;s fellow Olympic 400m hurdles bronze medallist, Alison dos Santos, dominated the men&rsquo;s race and came within 0.03 of his own world-leading mark. 
<div><img style="max-width: 900px; width: 100%; display: block;" src="https://assets.aws.worldathletics.org/62ab8d04d217ab0413f48df9.jpg" alt="Alison dos Santos wins the 400m hurdles at the Wanda Diamond League in Oslo" />
Alison dos Santos wins the 400m hurdles at the Wanda Diamond League in Oslo (&copy; AFP / Getty Images)
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Estonia&rsquo;s Rasmus Magi, winner at the Continental Tour Gold meeting in Turku earlier in the week, went with Dos Santos in the early stages, but the young Brazilian pulled away in the second half and ultimately won by more than a second in 47.26. Only Karsten Warholm, with his former world record run of 46.70 from last year, has ever gone quicker in this stadium.
&ldquo;It was a good time, but we expected more,&rdquo; said Dos Santos, who finished comfortably ahead of Magi (48.51). &ldquo;For sure, I am in 46-second shape. If Warholm was here, it would be better of course. I just try to have fun and enjoy every moment on the track. I love it.&rdquo;
<h2>Seyaum and Bekele lead Ethiopian 5000m sweeps</h2>
Dawit Seyaum may be new to the 5000m, but the former 1500m specialist looked anything but inexperienced as she outkicked her fellow Ethiopians to win a high-quality race.
The opening pace was steady, the first 1000m covered in 2:53.83 and 2000m reached in 5:52.33. Versatile Norwegian runner Karoline Bjerkeli Grovdal then took up the pace in the second half and passed through 3000m in 8:48.65, leading a large lead pack. Grovdal held on to that lead for another 1500 metres, but then Seyaum and compatriots Letesenbet Gidey, Gudaf Tsegay and Almaz Ayana started battling for the lead with one lap to go.
Ayana&rsquo;s challenge soon faded, leaving Seyaum, Tsegay and Gidey out in front. Seyaum&rsquo;s kick down the home straight was enough to break free from Tsegay and she won in 14:25.84. Tsegay, the Olympic bronze medallist at this distance, was second in 14:26.69 while world record-holder Gidey was third in 14:26.92. Grovdal held on to fourth place in a Norwegian record of 14:31.07 and USA&rsquo;s Alicia Monson was fifth in a big PB of 14:31.11. 
<div><img style="max-width: 900px; width: 100%; display: block;" src="https://assets.aws.worldathletics.org/62ab8b6cd217ab0413f48ded.jpg" alt="Dawit Seyaum celebrates her 5000m win at the Wanda Diamond League in Oslo" />
Dawit Seyaum celebrates her 5000m win at the Wanda Diamond League in Oslo (&copy; AFP / Getty Images)
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For just the second time in history, seven women finished inside 14:35 and eight women finished inside 14:40.
There was another Ethiopian 1-2-3 in the men&rsquo;s 5000m, though this time the 1500m standout was beaten by the 5000m specialist.
The pace was steady though never blazing quick, meaning most of the field was still in contention at the business end of the race. Two-time world indoor champion Samuel Tefera led at 3000m, passing in 7:54.39, but then sat back in the pack to save his legs for a potential fast finish.
He made his way back to the front of the pack in the closing stages, but could not get on level terms with Bekele, who kicked ahead and won in 13:03.51. Tefera held on for second in 13:04.35, just ahead of compatriot Getnet Wale (13:04.48).
Keely Hodgkinson won the battle of the Brits over 800m, getting the better of fellow Olympic silver medallist Laura Muir.
The 20-year-old ran a controlled and assured race and kept her cool in the closing stages to win comfortably in 1:57.71. Muir was second in 1:58.09, ahead of France&rsquo;s Renelle Lamote (1:58.50) and world champion Halimah Nakaayi of Uganda (1:58.68).
<h2>Fajdek breaks Diamond League record</h2>
A competitive showdown between global medallists resulted in four-time world champion Pawel Fajdek breaking the Diamond League record for the hammer.
Fajdek took an early lead with 77.96m, then Hungary&rsquo;s world bronze medallist Bence Halasz was the first to throw beyond 78 metres, recording 78.42m in round three. Fajdek improved to 78.16m and followed it with 78.41m in round four, but Halasz then responded with 78.73m to increase his lead.
Olympic champion Wojciech Nowicki (78.21m) and Olympic silver medallist Eivind Henriksen (78.23m) threw beyond 78 metres in round five, with Nowicki improving to 78.36m in the final round. At that point, just half a metre separated the top four. Fajdek, with the penultimate throw of the competition, sent his hammer out to 80.56m to break his own Diamond League record. Halasz responded with a season&rsquo;s best of 79.29m, but it wasn&rsquo;t enough to regain the lead.
The women&rsquo;s shot put was a reunion of the top eight finishers from this year&rsquo;s World Indoor Championships. The three medallists from Belgrade filled the top three places here, though in a different order.
World indoor bronze medallist Jessica Schilder opened with 19.46m, an improvement on her Dutch record, which stood as the leading mark until round three when USA&rsquo;s world indoor silver medallist Chase Ealey threw 19.66m.
Ealey maintained her lead and improved to a lifetime best of 20.13m in the final round, moving her to fourth on the US outdoor all-time list. World indoor champion Auriol Dongmo threw a best of 19.43m in the final round to finish third.
Olympic champion Valarie Allman lost her winning streak in the discus as multiple global champion Sandra Perkovic won with 66.82m. Allman saved her best throw for the last round, but her 65.91m effort came up short behind the Croatian. Olympic silver medallist Kristin Pudenz was third with 63.31m.
Olympic champion Miltiadis Tentoglou, meanwhile, won the long jump with 8.10m from Sweden&rsquo;s Thobias Montler (8.05m).
<h2>De Grasse maintains Oslo winning streak</h2>
Andre De Grasse has competed at the Bislett Games four times. And, as of today, the Canadian sprinter has also won four times at the Bislett Games.
The Olympic 200m champion came under pressure from Britain&rsquo;s Reece Prescod in the closing stages, but De Grasse just held on to win in 10.05 (0.5m/s) from Prescod (10.06). South Africa&rsquo;s Akani Simbine was third in 10.09. 
<div><img style="max-width: 900px; width: 100%; display: block;" src="https://assets.aws.worldathletics.org/62ab8c64d217ab0413f48df6.jpg" alt="Devon Allen wins the 110m hurdles at the Wanda Diamond League meeting in Oslo" />
Devon Allen wins the 110m hurdles at the Wanda Diamond League meeting in Oslo (&copy; AFP / Getty Images)
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Conditions were a bit tougher for the men&rsquo;s 110m hurdles and times were affected by the damp conditions and -1.2m/s headwind, but world leader Devon Allen once again emerged victorious in 13.22.
Spain&rsquo;s Asier Martinez took second place in 13.30 from Brazil&rsquo;s Rafael Pereira (13.37).
Grenada&rsquo;s Kirani James has been a regular on the Wanda Diamond League circuit for more than a decade, but the 2012 Olympic champion had never previously raced in Oslo. The 29-year-old made a good first impression, though, and won the 400m convincingly in 44.78.
Botswana&rsquo;s Isaac Makwala was second in 45.45, just ahead of Jamaica&rsquo;s Olympic finalist Christopher Taylor (45.52).
Elsewhere, Denmark&rsquo;s Ida Karstoft maintained her streak of breaking national 200m records this year, winning the half-lap sprint in 22.73 (0.8m/s). It was her sixth Danish record in as many races this year, indoors and out.
Jon Mulkeen for World Athletics

Norway's Ingebrigtsen moves to sixth on the world mile all-time list with 3:46.46 at the Bislett Games

Ingebrigtsen, Bol and Duplantis in record-breaking form in Oslo

When the Bislett Games gets under way on Thursday (16) there will be less than a month to go until the World Athletics Championships Oregon22. And with only two other Wanda Diamond League meetings on the calendar before the athletics world descends on Eugene, many of the world&rsquo;s best athletes will be in action in Oslo as they gear up for the peak of the season.
While Norway&rsquo;s Olympic 400m hurdles champion Karsten Warholm has been forced to withdraw following the injury he picked up in Rabat, it has not dented the overall quality of a meeting that boasts 19 medallists from the Tokyo Games, including six Olympic champions.
And the presence of Jakob Ingebrigtsen in the Dream Mile means that the home crowd will still get to cheer on one of the country&rsquo;s biggest athletics stars.
He ran a world-leading 3:49.76 to win over the distance in Eugene last month. He has also tested his form at either end of his range so far this season, winning over 5000m in California in 13:02.03, and clocking 1:47.22 for 800m in Bergen last week.
Ingebrigtsen will be doubly keen to win on Thursday as he has never won the senior Dream Mile in Oslo (although he won it in 2017 when it was an U20-only event). The likes of Britain's Jake Wightman, Mohamed Katir of Spain, Australia&rsquo;s Oliver Hoare and Luxembourg&rsquo;s Charles Grethen will line up against the 21-year-old Norwegian.
Ingebrigtsen is one of four Olympic champions in Oslo who&rsquo;ll be heading to the Norwegian capital as the world leader in their discipline, alongside Mondo Duplantis, Valarie Allman and Wojciech Nowicki.
Duplantis, who increased his own world record to 6.20m when winning the world indoor title in Belgrade in March, has maintained his winning streak since the start of the Diamond League season. He won in Doha with 6.02m, followed it with a 5.91m victory in Eugene and then returned to six-metre form with a 6.01m triumph in Hengelo.
He set a meeting record of 6.01m in Oslo last year, and the 22-year-old Swede is highly motivated by constant improvement, so he&rsquo;ll be keen to go one better on Thursday. The field includes the 2016 and 2012 Olympic champions, Thiago Braz and Renaud Lavillenie, as well as two-time world champion Sam Kendricks and leading Norwegian vaulters Pal Haugen Lillefosse and Sondre Guttormsen.
The hammer may not be a Diamond League discipline, but it boasts one of the strongest fields of the evening as it reunites the top four from the men&rsquo;s final in Tokyo: Wojciech Nowicki, Eivind Henriksen, Pawel Fajdek and Mykhaylo Kokhan. 
<div><img style="max-width: 900px; width: 100%; display: block;" src="https://assets.aws.worldathletics.org/62a8db99a71c1036b727aa28.jpg" alt="Wojciech Nowicki in the hammer in Silesia" />
Wojciech Nowicki in the hammer in Silesia (&copy; Marta Gorczynska)
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Olympic champion Nowicki has dominated the event so far this year, winning four of his five competitions and posting world-leading marks in Nairobi (81.43m) and Silesia (81.58m). But the Pole hasn&rsquo;t been so dominant to assume that victory in Oslo will be a foregone conclusion.
Allman has been similarly impressive in the discus. The Olympic champion owns the eight best throws in the world this year, topped by her North American record of 71.46m. But multiple global champion Sandra Perkovic, who will also be in Oslo, came within 59 centimetres of Allman in Birmingham. Olympic silver medallist Kristin Pudenz, meanwhile, has been close to PB form this year and has the potential to cause an upset in Oslo.&nbsp;
<h2>Hurdle excitement expected</h2>
Hurdling events have produced some of the biggest highlights of recent editions of the Bislett Games and that trend could well continue on Thursday.
Fresh from his stunning 12.84 run in New York to move to third on the world all-time list, Devon Allen will line up in the 110m hurdles in Oslo, his first race outside of North America this year. The US athlete is treating 2022 as his final season before embarking on a career in the NFL, but before making that switch he is gearing up for one final hurrah at the World Championships in Oregon, home of his alma mater.
Jamaica&rsquo;s 2016 Olympic champion Omar McLeod and France&rsquo;s European indoor champion Wilhem Belocian will likely be Allen&rsquo;s toughest opponents in Oslo.
After years of the focus being on Warholm and Rai Benjamin, young Brazilian Alison dos Santos is fast becoming the talk of the men&rsquo;s 400m hurdles.
The Olympic bronze medallist, who turned 22 earlier this month, is undefeated in this event this year. He set a season&rsquo;s best of 47.23 in Eugene at the end of May, but his 47.24 victory in Doha &ndash; on an evening of challenging blustery conditions &ndash; was perhaps even more impressive. They&rsquo;re the second and third-best performances of his career so far, behind the 46.72 PB he clocked in Tokyo to move to third on the world all-time list. 
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The vastly experienced Rasmus Magi improved his Estonian 400m hurdles record to 47.82 in Turku on Tuesday, while Sweden&rsquo;s world indoor bronze medallist Carl Bengstrom has also already set a PB of 48.52 this year and could be one to watch in this race. Yasmani Copello should also be in contention.
Dos Santos&rsquo;s fellow Olympic bronze medallist Femke Bol headlines the women&rsquo;s 400m hurdles. The Dutch athlete kick-started her outdoor campaign by smashing the world best for 300m hurdles, clocking 36.86 in Ostrava, and then followed it with wins of 53.94 and 53.02 for the full one-lap event in Hengelo and Rome respectively.
Ukrainian duo Anna Ryzhykova, a sub-53-second performer at her best, and Viktoriya Tkachuk should feature near the front of the race, as could British pair Jessie Knight and Lina Nielsen.&nbsp;
<h2>Gidey leads loaded 5000m field</h2>
Multiple world record-holder Letesenbet Gidey will be out to achieve her first victory of the year following runner-up finishes in Eugene and Hengelo.
The Ethiopian, who holds world records for 5000m, 10,000m and the half marathon, takes on a handful of her leading compatriots in the 5000m, including world indoor 1500m champion Gudaf Tsegay, 2015 world champion Almaz Ayana and 2016 world indoor silver medallist Dawit Seyaum. Britain&rsquo;s Eilish McColgan, who beat Gidey over 10,000m in Hengelo earlier this month, is also in the line-up. 
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Following a promising debut at the distance in Eugene last month, two-time world indoor 1500m champion Samuel Tefera will contest the second 5000m race of his career. The 22-year-old Ethiopian clocked 13:06.86 at the Prefontaine Classic to finish second to Berihu Aregawi. While Aregawi is skipping Oslo, three other Ethiopians with sub-13-minute PBs are in the field: Getnet Wale, Telahun Haile Bekele and Milkesa Mengesha.
Olympic silver medallists Keely Hodgkinson and Laura Muir will race over two laps of the track. The British duo has raced each other just once before, Hodgkinson getting the verdict on that occasion at the national championships last year. The 20-year-old goes into this race as the fastest entrant too, having clocked a season&rsquo;s best of 1:57.72 when winning in Eugene last month.
Ethiopia&rsquo;s Diribe Welteji, also aged just 20, goes into the race in good form too, having set a personal best of 1:58.28 for 800m and a season&rsquo;s best of 3:59.19 for 1500m. Uganda's world champion Halimah Nakaayi, Jamaica&rsquo;s Natoya Goule, Britain&rsquo;s Jemma Reekie and France&rsquo;s Renelle Lamote will ensure the race is super competitive.
<h2>Ehammer vs Tentoglou, take two</h2>
The long jump showdown between Olympic champion Miltiadis Tentoglou and rising decathlon talent Simon Ehammer was one of the more exciting duels at the recent Wanda Diamond League meeting in Rabat. 
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Miltiadis Tentoglou in the long jump in Rabat (&copy; Diamond League / Matt Quine)
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Tentoglou won on that occasion, but the Greek had to work hard to overtake the Swiss all-rounder. World indoor champion Tentoglou has built up a nine-strong winning streak and he won&rsquo;t want to lose it to a non-specialist. That said, Ehammer is quite some decathlete, and his world decathlon best of 8.45m still leads the world list for this year. If he reproduces that form in Oslo, he&rsquo;ll be tough to beat.
Uruguay&rsquo;s Emiliano Lasa and Sweden&rsquo;s Thobias Montler will also be in the hunt to bag Diamond League points on the road to the final.
The women&rsquo;s shot put will be a rematch of the World Indoor Championships final as it reunites the top eight finishers from there. Much of the focus will fall on world indoor champion Auriol Dongmo and world leader Chase Ealey, but the likes of Jamaica&rsquo;s world silver medallist Danniel Thomas-Dodd, USA&rsquo;s Maggie Ewen, Canadian record-holder Sarah Mitton, Dutch record-holder Jessica Schilder, and Swedish record-holder Fanny Roos have all thrown beyond 19 metres this season.
Half of the men&rsquo;s 400m field earned medals of some sort in Tokyo last year. Olympic bronze medallist Kirani James goes into the race off the back of a 44.54 victory in Rome and a 44.02 season&rsquo;s best in Eugene. He&rsquo;ll face three Olympic relay medallists in the form of Botswana&rsquo;s Isaac Makwala, the much-improved Alexander Ogando of the Dominican Republic and Liemarvin Bonevacia of the Netherlands.
Olympic 200m champion Andre De Grasse has raced in Oslo three times before and has won every time, taking the 100m in 2016 and 2017 and the 200m in 2021. The Canadian steps back down to the shorter sprint this year and will be keen to maintain his unbeaten record in the Norwegian capital as he takes on Britain&rsquo;s Reece Prescod &ndash; winner in Ostrava in a 9.93 PB &ndash; plus Ghana&rsquo;s Benjamin Azamati and South Africa&rsquo;s Akani Simbine.
Jon Mulkeen for World Athletics

Many of the world’s best will be at the Bislett Games as they gear up for the peak of the season.

World-leading Olympic champions ready to roll in Oslo

The countdown is on, and while some stars have yet to compete, preferring to fine-tune their fitness in training, many have already been out there, lighting up the circuit and offering an early indication of how things might play out at the World Athletics Championships Oregon22.
From Doha to Birmingham to Eugene, Nairobi to Tokyo to Ponce, there have been many memorable races, magnificent throws and outstanding jumps. It&rsquo;s early days, of course, but with just over six weeks until the marquee event of the athletics year, here are six key talking points to get you up to speed as the world&rsquo;s best athletes prepare to hit full flow.
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<h2>Olympic 1500m champions look better than ever</h2>
If there&rsquo;s one track event where the current king and queen look poised to back up their Olympic titles this year, it&rsquo;s the 1500m, where Kenya&rsquo;s Faith Kipyegon and Norway&rsquo;s Jakob Ingebrigtsen are showing no signs of a post-Tokyo hangover.
For Kipyegon, the chief threat in recent years has been world 1500m champion Sifan Hassan, but with the Dutchwoman struggling with injury and illness of late, she has yet to be seen on the racing circuit.
Kipyegon, meanwhile, looked better than ever last weekend, clocking a blazing 3:52.59 in Eugene despite cool, windy conditions. She tracked Ethiopia&rsquo;s Gudaf Tsegay until the last 200 metres and then unleashed that lethal kick which has already taken her to three global senior titles. Kipyegon said after that she will &ldquo;have a think about&rdquo; a world record attempt later in the summer, but noted her mind was solely focused on reclaiming the world title from Hassan.
On recent evidence, it will take an almighty effort to stop her.
Same goes for Ingebrigtsen, who&rsquo;s only been beaten once this year. That happened in the 1500m final at the World Athletics Indoor Championships Belgrade 22, though the reason for his slightly off-colour performance emerged the next day when he tested positive for Covid-19. 
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 But now he&rsquo;s back, looking better than ever. In Eugene last weekend, he sauntered to victory in the Bowerman Mile, clocking 3:49.76 in damp, windy conditions. He also did it the hard way, cranking up the pace from the front after the pacers stepped aside and running his chief rivals &ndash; Kenya&rsquo;s Timothy Cheruiyot and Abel Kipsang &ndash; off his tail.
Asked whether he was disappointed his rivals couldn&rsquo;t stay with him at that point, Ingebrigtsen delivered one of the most memorable lines of the season to date: &ldquo;You can&rsquo;t be disappointed when people are not better.&rdquo;
It&rsquo;s a line that speaks to his confident attitude, but as the old saying goes, it&rsquo;s not bragging if you can back it up. So far, Ingebrigtsen has shown he can.
He plans to chase gold over 1500m and 5000m at the World Athletics Championships Oregon22, a double that&rsquo;s not been done at global level since Bernard Lagat in Osaka in 2007. Going up against Olympic champions like Joshua Cheptegei and Selemon Barega with three rounds of the 1500m in his legs would be a mammoth task, but if none of them can drop Ingebrigtsen through the first four kilometres, few would bet against him at the finish.
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<h2>US throwers send out a signal</h2>
Historically, the US has mined its most gold medals in the sprint events, and while they&rsquo;ve long produced champions in the throws, by and large that&rsquo;s where their athletes have often played second fiddle to European rivals. But not anymore.
As things stand, US athletes top the 2022 world lists in three of the four women&rsquo;s throwing events through Chase Ealey, Valarie Allman and Brooke Andersen, while Ryan Crouser looks nigh-on untouchable in the battle for men&rsquo;s shot put gold in Eugene.
Allman has enjoyed a stunning start to her season, throwing a North American discus record of 71.46m in April. The Olympic champion was again dominant in Eugene last weekend, taking victory with a best of 68.35m &ndash; a mark no one has got within a metre of this year.
Crouser, meanwhile, endured a tricky start to his year, facing defeat at the World Indoor Championships by Brazil&rsquo;s Darlan Romani &ndash; a period when Crouser was still struggling with a nerve issue in his arm. But he looked back to his best in Eugene last weekend, launching 23.02m in the second round. His biggest rival when he goes for gold in his home state of Oregon, trying to win his first world title, is likely to be US teammate Joe Kovacs, the world champion who threw 22.49m to finish second last weekend in Eugene. 
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 What made Crouser&rsquo;s performance last weekend more impressive is that he chose not to utilise his full technique, throwing off a static starting position, which before had never produced a 23-metre effort. Crouser said he usually throws 40-60cm farther when utilising his full wind-up, and given his world record is 23.37m, a warning has been sent out about what might be coming.
Ealey has enjoyed a brilliant breakthrough this year, throwing a North American shot put record of 20.21m to earn world indoor silver, while her 19.76m in Halle currently tops the world outdoor lists.
Andersen and Janee Kassanavoid, meanwhile, look set for a hammer showdown with Polish star Anita Wlodarczyk come the World Championships. Andersen threw a world lead of 79.02m last month, while Wlodarczyk&rsquo;s best this year is the 78.06m she threw at altitude in Nairobi. Kassanavoid, meanwhile, rose to sixth on the world all-time list with her 78.00m at the USATF Throws Fest in Tucson last month. USA also has the defending world champion in Deanna Price, who has a best this year of 72.39m.
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<h2>The 100m: a tale of two sprints</h2>
Heading into the Tokyo Olympics, few could say with any confidence who&rsquo;d win the men&rsquo;s 100m, and even fewer predicted Marcell Jacobs would shake up the world and walk away with gold. While the Italian has since proven that win was no fluke, powering to world indoor 60m gold in Belgrade, the event again looks wide open as we count down to the next global sprint showdown.
Jacobs had a solid, if unexceptional, start to his season by clocking a wind-assisted 9.95 and wind-legal 10.04 in Savona, Italy. Intestinal issues ruled him out of the Continental Tour Gold meeting in Nairobi, and an injury forced him to withdraw from last weekend&rsquo;s Wanda Diamond League meeting in Eugene and from the upcoming Diamond League meeting in Rome. Such interruptions could leave the current sprint king in a race against time to be at peak fitness in July.
In the meantime, a legion of contenders has emerged. There&rsquo;s Ferdinand Omanyala, the Kenyan who tops the world lists with his 9.85 in Nairobi. There&rsquo;s USA&rsquo;s Trayvon Bromell, who put a crushing Olympic experience firmly behind him by clocking 9.76 late last year in Nairobi, and who ran 9.93 in Eugene last weekend to beat his chief US rivals Fred Kerley, Christian Coleman and Noah Lyles.
Jamaica &ndash; much to the relief of its proud, patriotic fan base &ndash; looks to have a genuine contender for men&rsquo;s 100m gold, with Oblique Seville clocking a highly impressive 9.86 in Kingston recently.
Who wins the world title? Just as it was in Tokyo, the answer right now seems shrouded in mystery.
The women&rsquo;s 100m, meanwhile, looks far more straightforward. The two women to beat &ndash; at least at this early-season juncture &ndash; are the two who&rsquo;ve long had a stranglehold on this event: Jamaica&rsquo;s Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce and Elaine Thompson-Herah. 
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 Fraser-Pryce started her season with a statement of intent, the 35-year-old clocking a superb 10.67 at altitude in Nairobi. She backed that up with a 200m win in Eugene last weekend in 22.41. Thompson-Herah, meanwhile, revealed her training had been hampered recently by niggles, but the Olympic champion looked back to her peerless best when clocking 10.79 to win in Eugene last weekend.
Who can come out of the pack to challenge them?
Their compatriot Shericka Jackson has been a consistent threat, as has Britain&rsquo;s Dina Asher-Smith, though if there&rsquo;s one woman with the talent to trouble the current sprint queens, particularly on US soil, it&rsquo;s likely Sha&rsquo;Carri Richardson, who has run 10.72 at her best and who clocked a noteworthy 10.92 to finish runner-up to Thompson-Herah in Eugene.
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<h2>Hodgkinson and Mu on a collision course</h2>
Ever since the Olympic final in Tokyo &ndash; where a pair of 19-year-olds rose to the top of the world &ndash; it was clear that the women&rsquo;s 800m might revolve around two athletes for some time to come: USA&rsquo;s Athing Mu and Britain&rsquo;s Keely Hodgkinson.
Both emerged for the 2022 outdoor season looking like they&rsquo;d only got better, which is bad news for their rivals, but great news for fans awaiting a showdown between two youngsters with the potential to become all-time greats. 
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Athing Mu in New York (&copy; Kirby Lee)
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 Mu powered to victory over 600m at the Penn Relays in April, clocking 1:22.74, while Hodgkinson showed off her enviable range of gears with wins on the Wanda Diamond League circuit in Birmingham and Eugene. A bout of Covid-19 for Mu meant the athletics world was denied the clash it was awaiting last weekend, but that should make it all the more intriguing if they next meet in the world final in July.
If there&rsquo;s an athlete who could interfere with that rivalry, it&rsquo;s likely Ajee Wilson, who bounced back to her brilliant best in March by winning her first ever global senior title in Belgrade, doing so with astonishing ease and a vicious last lap. She was runner-up to Hodgkinson in Eugene last weekend, but her come-from-behind finish suggested there could be more in her tank for their next meeting.
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<h2>400m hurdles aces prepare to play their hand</h2>
They were the most astonishing races of the Tokyo Olympics: two events, six athletes, who produced something close to perfection in the art of one-lap hurdling.
With their gold medals and utter annihilation of the respective world records, Sydney McLaughlin and Karsten Warholm took their event into the stratosphere, clocking times over 10 barriers that many international-level athletes would be delighted with on the flat.
But the thing that made the 400m hurdles the must-watch event of athletics is that it&rsquo;s not only about their individual brilliance, but the horde of heavy hitters lining up behind them, ready to take their shot at the champions.
It&rsquo;s unreasonable to hope this year&rsquo;s world finals will live up to the magic that occurred in Tokyo, especially given there are a series of questions yet to be answered right now about the chief protagonists. Warholm and McLaughlin have yet to contest their specialist event in 2022, though McLaughlin showed things are ticking along well with her 12.75 100m hurdles at the Penn Relays last month.
The bronze medallist in Tokyo, Femke Bol, got her outdoor campaign under way in sensational style, clocking a world best of 36.86 for the 300m hurdles in Ostrava. Olympic silver medallist and world champion Dalilah Muhammad showed she&rsquo;s coming into the season in fine form by clocking 53.88 to win at the Drake Relays in late April and backing that up with victory in Birmingham in 54.54. 
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 Warholm, meanwhile, will open his season in Rabat on Sunday (5) before racing at home in Oslo on 16 June. In Warholm&rsquo;s absence during the season to date, Olympic bronze medallist Alison Dos Santos emerged as a strong contender for this throne, taking victory ahead of Tokyo silver medallist Rai Benjamin in Doha in 47.24 before lowering that world lead to 47.23 last weekend in Eugene.
Benjamin was a late withdrawal from Eugene with illness, though he&rsquo;s expected back on the line at the Continental Tour Gold meeting in New York on 12 June. After winning at the Pre Classic last weekend, Dos Santos was in no doubt that Warholm still rules his event until someone can depose him &ndash; which he believes will take something very special.
&ldquo;He is the boss,&rdquo; said Dos Santos. &ldquo;And for winning the (world) final, you need to run 45.&rdquo;
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<h2>Meet the shooting stars of the field events</h2>
A post-Olympic year is often a time for change, with a raft of retirements and a fresh crop of athletes breaking into the elite echelon. Though it&rsquo;s still early days in this 2022 season, a horde of relatively new names have already made their presence felt with some outstanding efforts.
None more so than Kristjan Ceh, the 23-year-old Slovenian discus thrower who launched a stunning national record of 71.27m, making perfect use of the windy conditions, in Birmingham earlier this month. That puts him two metres clear of world and Olympic champion Daniel Stahl on this year&rsquo;s world list. Ceh finished fifth in the Olympic final last year but if he maintains his current trajectory, his first global medal at senior level looks almost assured in Eugene. 
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 In G&ouml;tzis last weekend, 22-year-old Simon Ehammer showed he can be a contender in both the decathlon and long jump for years to come when leaping a world decathlon best of 8.45m, helping him to a Swiss record of 8377.
Meanwhile, Jamaica could well have a global medal contender on its hands in the women&rsquo;s high jump in Lamara Distin, a 22-year-old student at Texas A&amp;M University who cleared a national record of 1.97m last month. That puts her second on the 2022 world list behind Ukraine&rsquo;s Yaroslava Mahuchikh.
A pair of Cubans currently top the world lists in the triple jump, with Andy Diaz sending out a statement of intent in the men&rsquo;s side by leaping 17.64m in Grosseto, Italy, last week. On the women&rsquo;s side, 20-year-old Leyanis Perez tops the world lists via her 14.58m leap on home turf in La Nucia &ndash; the pair looking ready to add to their nation&rsquo;s proud jumping history by contending for medals in Eugene.
But all in the triple jump world, of course, are still awaiting the outdoor debut of Venezuela&rsquo;s Yulimar Rojas, who stole the show at the World Indoor Championships in Belgrade with her outright world record of 15.67m. Given her remarkable ability to reach new levels when the pressure is highest, Rojas could well edge closer to 16 metres &ndash; a mark which has long occupied her thoughts &ndash; when the world is watching in Eugene in July.
Cathal Dennehy for World Athletics

Getting up to speed as the world’s best athletes prepare to hit full flow

Road to Oregon22 – six key talking points with six weeks to go

Men's world indoor 1500m&nbsp;record 3:30.60&nbsp;Jakob Ingebrigtsen&nbsp;(NOR) Lievin 17 February 2022 &nbsp; The world indoor 1500m record set by Jakob Ingebrigtsen at the World Athletics Indoor Tour Gold meeting in Lievin last month has been ratified.
Running 3:30.60 at the Meeting Hauts-de-France Pas-de-Calais on 17 February, Norway's Olympic champion took almost half a second off the previous record of 3:31.04 that had been run by Ethiopia's Samuel Tefera in Birmingham on 16 February 2019. 
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 Paced by Julien Ranc, and then Erik Sowinski, Ingebrigtsen passed through 600m in 1:24.66 and 800m in 1:52.86. He reached 1000m in 2:20.98, bang on target, and then started to pick up the pace for the final two laps. By the time he reached the bell in 3:03.04, he had opened up a significant gap on his one remaining opponent: Tefera.
Ingebrigtsen covered the final lap in 27.57 seconds, reaching the finish line in 3:30.60 to take 0.44 off Tefera's record. Tefera finished second in 3:33.70 and Spain&rsquo;s Ignacio Fontes was a distant third in 3:37.39.
"I wanted to break the world indoor record last year, even though it wasn&rsquo;t the main goal then," said Ingebrigtsen, who set a European indoor record of 3:31.80 when winning in Lievin in 2021.
"I want to improve and run faster than I have done before. It&rsquo;s everyone&rsquo;s dream to win championships and beat records. This is my first world record; hopefully more will come, but this is a big dream come true."
He will next race at the World Athletics Indoor Championships Belgrade 22 where he will again go head-to-head with Tefera, the defending champion, in the 1500m.&nbsp;<a href="https://www.worldathletics.org/competitions/world-athletics-indoor-championships/belgrade22/news/preview/1500m-preview-men-belgrade-ingebrigtsen-tefera" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-cke-saved-href="https://www.worldathletics.org/competitions/world-athletics-indoor-championships/belgrade22/news/preview/1500m-preview-men-belgrade-ingebrigtsen-tefera">Race preview.</a>
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The Olympic champion's 3:30.60 is now official.

Ratified: world indoor 1500m record for Ingebrigtsen

He had won numerous continental titles while still a teenager. He won Olympic gold in a European record time at the age of 20. And now, at the age of 21, Jakob Ingebrigtsen can call himself a world record-holder.
The Norwegian middle-distance runner, opening his 2022 campaign at the Meeting Hauts-de-France Pas-de-Calais on Thursday (17), took almost half a second off the world indoor 1500m record*, winning at the World Athletics Indoor Tour Gold meeting in Lievin in 3:30.60.
Paced by Julien Ranc, and then Erik Sowinski, Ingebrigtsen passed through 600m in 1:24.66 and 800m in 1:52.86. He reached 1000m in 2:20.98, bang on target, and then started to pick up the pace for the final two laps. By the time he reached the bell in 3:03.04, he had opened up a significant gap on his one remaining opponent: the previous world indoor record-holder and 2018 world indoor champion Samuel Tefera.
Ingebrigtsen covered the final lap in 27.57 seconds, reaching the finish line in 3:30.60 to take 0.44 off Tefera&rsquo;s world indoor record. Tefera finished second in 3:33.70 and Spain&rsquo;s Ignacio Fontes was a distant third in 3:37.39. 
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 &ldquo;This is always a fast race and it&rsquo;s a really nice arena,&rdquo; said Ingebrigtsen, who won in Lievin last year in a European indoor record of 3:31.80. &ldquo;I like to finish strong; I think it&rsquo;s nice for the crowd but it&rsquo;s also nice for me to speed up going into the finish.&rdquo;
Aside from Ingebrigtsen&rsquo;s world indoor record, five other world-leading marks were set on an outstanding night of indoor action.
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<h2>World leads for Seyaum and Holloway</h2>
Four years since her last victory in an indoor race, Dawit Seyaum impressed in the 3000m, sprinting away from her rivals on the last lap to win in 8:23.24, the fourth-fastest time in history. 
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 The pacemaker covered the first 1000m in 2:47.14, then Workua Getachew took a turn at the front of the pack, passing through half way in 4:09.57 and 2000m in 5:34.32 with fellow Ethiopians Seyaum and Ejgayehu Taye tucked behind. Taye, who broke the world 5km record at the end of December, led for a few more laps, but Dawit struck as she approached the final lap.
With a sub-30-second final circuit, Seyaum went on to win by three-and-a-half seconds in 8:23.24, a French indoor all-comers&rsquo; record. Taye finished second in a PB of 8:26.77 and Fantu Worku made it an Ethiopian 1-2-3, clocking 8:38.15 for third place.
World 110m hurdles champion Grant Holloway returned to Lievin looking to extend a 60m hurdles winning streak that began in 2014. The world indoor record-holder achieved his goal, winning the final in 7.35 after breezing to a 7.40 run in the heats.
Although he is still only 24 years of age, Holloway now has more sub-7.40 performances than any other sprint hurdler in history.
Pascal Martinot-Lagarde finished second in a season&rsquo;s best of 7.46 and world indoor silver medallist Jarret Eaton was third in 7.51.
In an 800m clash between the only two women to have broken two minutes for the discipline this year, Jamaica&rsquo;s Natoya Goule got the better of world champion Halimah Nakaayi with a world-leading 1:58.46.
The pacemaker went through the first 400m in 57.56, then Goule maintained the swift tempo, breezing through 600m in 1:27.64. The world and Olympic finalist didn&rsquo;t let up and held off a strong final challenge from Nakaayi to win in a Jamaican record of 1:58.46, the fastest ever indoor performance by someone from a Caribbean nation. Nakaayi was rewarded with a Ugandan indoor record of 1:58.58, while Kenya&rsquo;s Eglay Nalyanya was third in a PB of 2:00.26. 
<img src="https://assets.aws.worldathletics.org/620ec2d1353ef4630af24ebf.jpg" alt="" width="100%" />Natoya Goule wins the 800m (&copy; AFP / Getty Images)
 In a battle of the two global outdoor pole vault champions, Anzhelika Sidorova came out on top with a world-leading 4.85m. Olympic champion Katie Nageotte, competing off a short approach, scaled a season&rsquo;s best of 4.80m to place third on countback behind Iryna Zhuk. The Belarusian also cleared 4.80m, breaking her own national record.
Zhuk and Sidorova were tied through to 4.80m, both clearing it on their second attempts. Sidorova then got over 4.85m on her first try while Zhuk and Nageotte bowed out of the competition.
Despite never having competed indoor before, Cuba&rsquo;s Lazaro Martinez sailed out to a world-leading 16.97m with his opening leap in the men&rsquo;s triple jump. The two-time world U20 champion improved to 17.21m in the next round, the third-best jump of his career and his farthest mark outside of Cuba.
After a 16.82m jump in round three, and with no one else threatening the 17-metre barrier, Martinez passed his final two attempts and held on to his victory. Germany&rsquo;s Max Hess was second with 16.76m.
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<h2>Girma beats Barega, Jacobs maintains winning streak</h2>
It was a night of mixed fortunes for Selemon Barega and Marcell Jacobs, the Olympic gold medallists at either end of the track distance spectrum. 
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 Jacobs, taking on his toughest field of the year so far, won the men&rsquo;s 60m in 6.50. In a relatively close finish, the top five men finished inside 6.60 with USA&rsquo;s Cravont Charleston taking second place in 6.52, Elijah Hall finishing third in 6.57 and Ferdinand Omanyala setting a Kenyan record of 6.57.
There had been talk of a potential world record in the men&rsquo;s 3000m, as the three men who came close to the mark last year &ndash; Barega, Getnet Wale and Lamecha Girma &ndash; were back in Lievin. But sometimes a genuine race can be more exciting than a world record attempt, and that&rsquo;s what the capacity crowd were treated to this time.
When the pacemaker reached half way in 3:43.48, almost two seconds ahead of the rest of the field, it became clear that the world record would live to see another day. Wale, Girma and Barega were all still in contention, though, while Spain&rsquo;s Mohamed Katir navigated his way through the field and briefly led at 2000m, reached in 5:02.28.
Barega then hit the front and led for much of the final kilometre, but he hadn&rsquo;t shaken off his fellow Ethiopian challengers. Girma kicked hard off the final bend and caught Barega just before the line, clocking 7:30.54. Barega was second in 7:30.66 and Wale third in 7:30.88.
Behind them, Bahrain&rsquo;s Birhanu Balew set an Asian record of 7:31.77 and Andreas Almgren set an outright Swedish record of 7:34.31. 
<img src="https://assets.aws.worldathletics.org/620ec383113e75502c56c199.jpg" alt="" width="100%" />Lamecha Girma celebrates his 3000m win (&copy; AFP / Getty Images)
 There was a similarly thrilling finish in the men&rsquo;s 2000m, where Samuel Zeleke came from behind to catch long-time leader Abel Kipsang, winning in 4:57.00 &ndash; just shy of the world-leading mark of 4:56.87 set by Berihu Aregawi on his way to his world-leading 3000m run in Karlsruhe. Kipsang was second in 4:57.21, just 0.01 ahead of France&rsquo;s Azeddine Habz.
Gudaf Tsegay returned to Lievin looking to recapture the magic that carried her to a world indoor 1500m record last year. This time the world and Olympic bronze medallist was contesting the mile and had Genzebe Dibaba's world indoor record of 4:13.31 in her sights.
Or at least she did - until she tripped and fell on the first lap. She got back up soon enough and by the second lap she was in second place behind the pacemaker. But she clearly looking uncomfortable and was never on pace to threaten the world indoor record.
Nevertheless, she shook off a mid-race challenge from compatriot Axumawit Embaye and went on to win in 4:21.72, breaking a meeting record that had stood for 20 years. Embaye finished second in 4:25.30.
Olympic silver medallist Chris Nilsen won a high-quality men&rsquo;s pole vault contest with 5.91m. Up to and including that bar, the US vaulter cleared all of his heights on the first attempt. His only failures came when he attempted to break his own North American indoor record with 6.03m.
Brazil&rsquo;s 2016 Olympic champion Thiago Braz was second with 5.81m, his best indoor vault since 2018. Menno Vloon of the Netherlands matched that height to take third.
World and Olympic triple champion Yulimar Rojas switched things up and contested the long jump in Lievin. The Venezuelan took the lead in round two with a national indoor record of 6.77m, then improved it to 6.81m in round four. Spain&rsquo;s Fatima Diame was second with 6.64m.
Two years and two days since Elliot Giles&rsquo; last loss in an indoor 800m, Spain&rsquo;s world leader Mariano Garcia ended the Briton&rsquo;s winning streak by taking the men&rsquo;s four-lap race.
Kenyan teenager Noah Kibet, the world U20 bronze medallist, followed the pacemaker for the first two laps. Following some congestion as the pacemaker stepped aside, Garcia emerged as the leader of the pack with about 300 metres left to run. Making use of that advantage, he kicked hard and held off a strong challenge from Giles to win in 1:46.29. Giles was second in a season&rsquo;s best of 1:46.50.
Elsewhere, Laetitia Bapte emerged the surprising winner of the women&rsquo;s 60m hurdles in 8.00.
Jon Mulkeen for World Athletics
* Subject to the usual ratification procedure

The Olympic 1500m champion is now the world indoor record-holder

Ingebrigtsen breaks world indoor 1500m record in Lievin

One year on from her stunning world indoor 1500m record at the Meeting Hauts-de-France Pas-de-Calais, Ethiopia&rsquo;s Gudaf Tsegay returns to the World Athletics Indoor Tour Gold meeting in Lievin on Thursday (17) looking to take down another record.
She won&rsquo;t be the only athlete chasing a record-breaking performance at a meeting that features a reigning global champion or world record-holder in nine of the 14 main disciplines.
Tsegay, the world and Olympic bronze medallist, will this time take aim at the world indoor mile record, which currently stands at 4:13.31, set by Genzebe Dibaba in 2016. It&rsquo;s a lofty goal, as only two women have ever bettered the mark outdoors. But Dibaba&rsquo;s world indoor 1500m record looked similarly ambitious before Tsegay smashed it by two seconds in Lievin last year.
For context, when Dibaba clocked her 4:13.31 world indoor mile record, she passed through 1500m in 3:56.46. Tsegay&rsquo;s world indoor record stands at 3:53.09 and she has two other sub-3:55 performances outdoors.
If it ends up being anything like her performance in Lievin last year, Tsegay&rsquo;s race on Thursday could end up being a largely solo effort. But the likes of Axumawit Embaye, who won in Karlsruhe in a world-leading 4:02.12, Uganda&rsquo;s Winnie Nanyondo and Ethiopia&rsquo;s Tigist Ketema will be hoping to use the race as an opportunity to run fast.
There are strong chances of several records &ndash; world, continental and national &ndash; being broken in the other endurance events on the programme, especially as wavelight technology will be in use at the meeting.
Olympic 1500m champion Jakob Ingebrigtsen will once again get his season under way in Lievin, just as he did last year. He clocked a European indoor record of 3:31.80 on that occasion, then went on to enjoy the greatest season of his burgeoning career which culminated with Olympic 1500m gold in a European record of 3:28.32.
In recent months, though, the Ingebrigtsen coaching set-up has changed. His father, Gert, is currently taking a break while older brother Henrik takes on a more active role in Jakob&rsquo;s coaching. It&rsquo;s unlikely that there would have been any drastic changes in the types of training sessions done, however, so Ingebrigtsen&rsquo;s form may be as good as it always is.
He won&rsquo;t necessarily have it all his own way in Lievin, though. Ethiopia&rsquo;s Samuel Tefera, the world indoor champion and world indoor record-holder for the distance, will also be on the start line. Tefera won here in 2019, then went on to break the world indoor record just six days later with 3:31.04. He returned to Lievin in 2020 and won again.
The men&rsquo;s world indoor 3000m record is another mark that came under threat last year, and the top three finishers from that race &ndash; Getnet Wale, Selemon Barega and Lamecha Girma &ndash; are back again. 
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 Wale came out on top on that occasion, winning in 7:24.98 &ndash; the second-fastest indoor run in history and just 0.08 shy of Daniel Komen&rsquo;s long-standing world indoor record. Since then, Barega went on to win the Olympic 10,000m title while Girma earned steeplechase silver in Tokyo.
They&rsquo;ll have other athletes to worry about, too. Spain&rsquo;s Mohamed Katir was a revelation on the international circuit last year, setting Spanish records for 1500m (3:28.76), 3000m (7:27.64) and 5000m (12:50.79). He should feature among the leaders in Lievin; even if he&rsquo;s slightly off the leading pace, he could still break the European record of 7:30.82 set last week by compatriot Adel Mechaal.
Ethiopia&rsquo;s Nibret Melak, Bahrain&rsquo;s Birhanu Balew and Kenyan duo Nicholas Kimeli, Jacob Krop are also in the high-quality line-up.
The women&rsquo;s 3000m is of a similarly high standard. It may be just the second indoor race of Ejgayehu Taye&rsquo;s career, but expectations will be high after her breakthrough 2021 season during which she broke the world 5km record with 14:19, set an Ethiopian 3000m record of 8:19.52, and clocked a 5000m PB of 14:14.09.
The 22-year-old will line up alongside compatriots Fantu Worku, Dawit Seyaum, Zerfe Wondemagegn and teenager Melknat Wedu, a double world U20 medallist.
The men&rsquo;s 2000m is the one middle-distance event in which the world record/best hasn&rsquo;t been set as a specific target, but there&rsquo;s still a strong chance of area and national records being broken at this rarely contested distance.
Olympic 1500m fourth-place finisher Abel Kipsang, who made his indoor debut just a few days ago, will start as the slight favourite. The Kenyan takes on Azeddine Habz of France, Samuel Zeleke of Ethiopia and Maximilian Thorwirth of Germany.
The world best stands at 4:49.99, set by Kenenisa Bekele, while the European record is 4:52.90 and the Kenyan record &ndash; a realistic target for Kipsang &ndash; is 4:55.72.
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<h2>Global champions clash in the pole vault</h2>
Olympic pole vault champion Katie Nageotte and world champion Anzhelika Sidorova last faced one another at the 2021 Wanda Diamond League final, where Sidorova joined the elusive five-metre club with her winning 5.01m vault.
In their three other clashes of 2021, however &ndash; including at the Olympic Games in Tokyo &ndash; Nageotte came out on top. The US vaulter started her season with a 4.60m win in Reno, but was then third at the Millrose Games. Sidorova, meanwhile, opened her 2022 campaign with a 4.80m win on home soil in Moscow. 
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 The likes of 2015 world champion Yarisley Silva, European indoor silver medallist Tina Sutej and European indoor bronze medallist Iryna Zhuk, who recently improved to 4.77m, should make it a competitive affair.
Not content with utterly dominating one event, world and Olympic triple jump champion Yulimar Rojas is intent on making an impact in the long jump this year. The Venezuelan, who holds the world indoor and outdoor triple jump records, opened her season with 6.55m in Madrid last weekend, but is keen to reproduce a distance nearer to the wind-assisted 7.27m leap she managed outdoors last year.
The highly consistent European indoor champion Maryna Bekh-Romanchuk &ndash; who, conversely, recently turned her hand to the triple jump and sailed out to a highly respectable 14.34m &ndash; will contest her first long jump competition of the year. All-round talents Maria Vicente and Akela Jones should also be a factor.
Three athletes with PBs of 6.00m or higher will start in the men&rsquo;s pole vault. USA&rsquo;s Olympic silver medallist Chris Nilsen, who recently equalled the North American indoor record of 6.02m, will start as the favourite, but multiple world medallist Piotr Lisek, 2016 Olympic champion Thiago Braz, Ernest John Obiena and Emmanouil Karalis won&rsquo;t give him an easy time.
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<h2>Holloway and Jacobs return to Lievin</h2>
Like many of the stand-out performers in the distance events, the shorter disciplines on the competition programme will welcome back two of the winners from last year.
World 110m hurdles champion Grant Holloway charged to a continental record of 7.32 in Lievin last year, setting him on the path to break the world record with 7.29 two weeks later. The Olympic silver medallist opened his season with a world-leading 7.37 on Staten Island earlier this month and doesn&rsquo;t seem to be slowing down any time soon.
Five of the seven fastest men in the world this year are in the field, with Jarret Eaton, Pascal Martinot-Lagarde, Wilhem Belocian and Daniel Roberts all set to take part, along with world indoor champion Andrew Pozzi and decathlon world record-holder Kevin Mayer.
Olympic 100m champion Marcell Jacobs, another winner in Lievin last year, heads to the French town off the back of 60m victories in Berlin (6.51) and Lodz (6.49). But USA&rsquo;s world indoor bronze medallist Ronnie Baker has the fastest PB of the field at 6.40 &ndash; 0.07 quicker than Jacobs&rsquo; best.
Arthur Cisse of the Ivory Coast and Ferdinand Omanyala of Kenya should also feature. 
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 In the women&rsquo;s 60m hurdles, European indoor champion Nadine Visser takes on Olympic finalist and Bahamian record-holder Devynne Charlton, France&rsquo;s Cyrena Samba-Mayela, who clocked a PB of 7.84 in Karlsruhe, and Finland&rsquo;s Reetta Hurske.
World 800m champion Halimah Nakaayi, who on Monday set a world-leading Ugandan indoor record of 1:59.55, once again contests her specialist distance and takes on Jamaica&rsquo;s Natoya Goule and Ethiopia&rsquo;s Freweyni Hailu.
The men&rsquo;s 800m is of a similarly high standard. Elliot Giles, who won in Lievin last year then went on to run the second-fastest indoor performance of all time, returns to take on Spain&rsquo;s Mariano Garcia, who won at the recent New Balance Indoor Grand Prix in a world-leading 1:45.12. Kenya&rsquo;s Collins Kipruto, Noah Kibet, Tony van Diepen of the Netherlands and Swedish record-holder Andreas Kramer should all be in contention too.
Elsewhere, Algeria&rsquo;s Yasser Triki, the fifth-place finisher at the Olympic Games, will open his season in the triple jump, where he will clash with Germany&rsquo;s Max Hess, 2019 European indoor champion Nazim Babayev and two-time world U20 champion Lazaro Martinez of Cuba.
Jon Mulkeen for World Athletics

Five Olympic champions set to star at the Meeting Hauts-de-France Pas-de-Calais

Tsegay and Ingebrigtsen return to Lievin with records in their sights

Olympic 1500m champion Jakob Ingebrigtsen is to return to race at the&nbsp;Meeting Hauts-de-France Pas-de-Calais, a&nbsp;World Athletics Indoor Tour Gold meeting, in Lievin on 17 February.
The 21-year-old opened his 2021 season with victory in Lievin, breaking the European 1500m record with&nbsp;3:31.80 after a dominant run which saw him win by five seconds and improve&nbsp;Hicham el Guerrouj&rsquo;s meeting record by 0.21.
That performance put him fifth on the world all-time list, just 0.76 off Samuel Tefera's world indoor record set in 2019.
Ingebrigtsen&nbsp;went on to achieve a gold medal double at the European Indoor Championships in Torun, taking titles in the 1500m and 3000m, before an outdoor season which included his Olympic 1500m victory in Tokyo.
He will be joined in the&nbsp;Lievin 1500m&nbsp;field by his brother Filip, the 2017 world bronze medallist.
The Meeting Hauts-de-France Pas-de-Calais is one of the seven Gold-level World Indoor Tour meetings taking place in 2022. In 2021, the meeting was highlighted by&nbsp;Gudaf Tsegay's world indoor 1500m record and the 24-year-old Ethiopian will&nbsp;also be back in Lievin next month to race the mile.
Other athletes announced for the meeting include Olympic 100m champion Marcell Jacobs. The Italian sprinter achieved his first victory of 2021 in the French town, winning the 60m in 6.54.

Olympic 1500m champion Jakob Ingebrigtsen is to return to race at the Meeting Hauts-de-France Pas-de-Calais.

Ingebrigtsen returns to race Lievin 1500m

Jakob Ingebrigtsen and Karoline Bjerkeli Grovdal made it a memorable day for Norway at the SPAR European Cross Country Championships in Fingal-Dublin on Sunday (12), the pair powering to their first ever titles in the senior races at the event.&nbsp;
Both champions at U20 level in the past, they stamped their superiority at senior level in the Irish capital. For Ingebrigtsen, victory here crowned the perfect year for the 21-year-old, who won two European Indoor titles in March along with the Olympic 1500m title in Tokyo in August.&nbsp;
Ingebrigtsen bided his time in the 10,000m event, patiently stalking the pace of early leaders Aras Kaya of Turkey and Jimmy Gressier of France. Midway through the race the leading contenders had been whittled to four, with the above trio joined by Yemaneberhan Crippa of Italy. But with just over 2km to run, Crippa suddenly came to a stop, the Italian record-holder at 5000m and 10,000m stepping off the course in visible distress.&nbsp;
That left Kaya, the defending champion, pushing the pace up front ahead of Ingebrigtsen, the pair soon pulling away from Gressier approaching the bell. Soon after, Ingebrigtsen coasted to the front and began to move through the gears, dropping Kaya midway through the lap and extending his advantage until the finish, which he crossed in 30:15, 14 seconds clear of runner-up Kaya and 19 seconds clear of bronze medallist Gressier. With three athletes in the top six &ndash; and four in the top eight &ndash; France were easy winners of the team event.&nbsp;
&ldquo;It felt really good, but I have to admit 10km is not the best distance for me,&rdquo; said Ingebrigtsen. &ldquo;We do a lot of similar training to these sort of races in our normal weeks, but you are always thinking worst-case scenario. There is a lot of mud here, it is a tough race, but I felt good and felt quite sure of the win the whole race.&rdquo;
Ingebrigtsen paid tribute to the local fans, which was one of the biggest crowds in the event&rsquo;s history and saw approximately 7000 fans in attendance. &ldquo;The crowd was crazy and they really help us, so I'm really happy there were lots of spectators.&rdquo;
The senior men&rsquo;s race featured an Athlete Refugee Team for the first time, with the team led to a 10th place finish by Olympian Jamal Abdelmaji Eisa Mohammed, who was 31st in 31:38.
A little later, Grovdal unleashed a similarly classy &ndash; and typically courageous &ndash; performance to win the women&rsquo;s title. The 31-year-old had won the U20 race when Dublin last hosted the event in 2009 but after four consecutive bronze medals between 2015 and 2018 at senior level and a silver in 2019, she must have wondered if her time would ever come.&nbsp;
When four-time champion Yasemin Can of Turkey faded from the front well before the halfway point it became clear a new winner would join the roll of honour and for a long time, Germany&rsquo;s Konstanze Klosterhalfen and Sweden&rsquo;s Meraf Bahta looked most likely to do so.&nbsp;
But Klosterhalfen got dropped on the penultimate lap, leaving Grovdal battling Bahta for the title. Given the Swede&rsquo;s superior 1500m speed Grovdal knew she would have to move early and she did, surging ahead on the uphill run with 600 metres to go and extending her advantage to the finish, crossing in 26:34. Bahta took second in 26:44 with former U23 champion Alina Reh of Germany third in 26:53. Britain&rsquo;s Jess Judd was next in ahead of Klosterhalfen, with team honours going to Great Britain and Northern Ireland.&nbsp; 
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 &ldquo;I have won so many bronze and silver medals at European level &ndash; both on the track and in cross country &ndash; so for me to take the gold today means a lot,&rdquo; said Grovdal. &ldquo;I am so happy for having been able to do that. I am 31 now, and 12 years ago I took gold here in Dublin in the U20 race, so after so many silver and bronze medals, today it felt very special. Clearly, Dublin has been good to me, and perhaps I should leave it like that.&rdquo;
In the men&rsquo;s U23 race British athlete Charles Hicks shook off any lingering fatigue from his recent fourth-place finish in the NCAA Cross Country Championships and fended off a spirited challenge from Irish favourite Darragh McElhinney to take gold.&nbsp;
Hicks led for much of the race but had to dig deep when McElhinney, and then Luxembourg&rsquo;s Ruben Querinjean, surged past on the final lap, the Briton taking victory in the end in 24:49, four seconds clear of McElhinney with Querinjean third &ndash; Luxembourg&rsquo;s first ever medal at the championships.&nbsp;
&ldquo;When Darragh came back, I knew how much this race meant to him, but also how much it meant to me, so I went for it,&rdquo; said Hicks. &ldquo;I tried so many surges and breaks, but he couldn&rsquo;t be broken.&rdquo;
McElhinney led Ireland to victory in the team event ahead of Great Britain and Northern Ireland with a tally of 21 points and there were emotional scenes as the Irish anthem played to delighted home fans. &ldquo;We knew we were within a medal shot but that was just scandalous,&rdquo; said McElhinney. &ldquo;To win team gold on home soil, you couldn&rsquo;t write it.&rdquo;
The women&rsquo;s U23 race saw Italy&rsquo;s Nadia Battocletti live up to her favourite&rsquo;s tag, though the Olympic 5000m finalist was made to work for her gold after a spirited challenge from silver medallist Klara Lukan of Slovenia and bronze medallist Mariana Machado of Portugal &ndash; the three finishing in the same order they had at the U20 race in Lisbon two years ago.&nbsp;
Battocletti noted she wasn&rsquo;t at full fitness before the race and the 21-year-old star waited until the final uphill run to the finish to sprint clear, hitting the line in 20:32 with four seconds to spare over Lukan. Battocletti led the Italian team to gold with a tally of 18 points.&nbsp;
&ldquo;My team told me I could probably win easily, but in my head I know that when I step on the course, I don't know the shape of the other girls, don't know anything about them, so I need to come out here and do my race,&rdquo; said Battocletti. &ldquo;I always try to run fast to get a win &ndash; it is not easy though.&rdquo;
The outstanding individual performance of the day came in the men&rsquo;s U20 race from 17-year-old Dane Axel Vang Christensen of Denmark, who turned the tables on Norwegian rival Abdullahi Dahir Rabi from their recent clash at the Nordic U20 Championships.&nbsp;
Christensen surged clear on the opening lap of the 6000m contest and ran the entire race in splendid isolation, and he had a whopping 25 seconds to spare at the finish &ndash; the widest margin of victory on the day. Rabi came through for second with Denmark&rsquo;s Joel Ibler Lilleso third, while Great Britain and Northern Ireland edged Ireland to victory in the team event by a single point &ndash; 34 to 35.&nbsp;
&ldquo;I had a lot of confidence from my training sessions, I had a really good workout a few days ago, and I felt I was in really good shape,&rdquo; said Christensen. &ldquo;Having competed with them before was definitely an advantage because I felt I had something to prove. I wanted to get that gold medal really bad.&rdquo;
Britain&rsquo;s Megan Keith timed her run to perfection to take victory in the U20 women&rsquo;s 4000m race, surging ahead on the penultimate straight to win in 13:41, three seconds clear of Norway&rsquo;s Ingeborg Ostgard. Germany&rsquo;s Emma Heckel took bronze and led a superb team performance with Germany&rsquo;s first four finishers all inside the top 10.&nbsp;
&ldquo;I am in shock,&rdquo; said Keith. &ldquo;My crazy dream was to be on a path that I might be in the mix for a medal, but didn't think I could win the whole thing. It is mental.&rdquo;
In the mixed relay, the hopes of an Irish gold were dashed after a stunning third leg by Britain&rsquo;s Alex Bell, an Olympic finalist over 800m. At the halfway point the Irish had a commanding lead after strong legs from Ciara Mageean and Luke McCann, but Siofra Cleirigh Buttner couldn&rsquo;t maintain the advantage on the third leg as Bell clocked a blazing 4:47 split &ndash; the fastest of any female athlete by 10 seconds &ndash; to hand over to Benjamin West with a four-second lead.&nbsp;
West made no mistake and held on to ensure Britain retained the title they won at the last edition in 2019, with France flying through to take silver ahead of Belgium, with Ireland fourth.&nbsp;
Bell spoke for many athletes at the venue when summing up the atmosphere as she made her way around the course. &ldquo;I've not heard a stage and an audience like that in so long,&rdquo; she said. &ldquo;It was unbelievable.&rdquo;
Cathal Dennehy for World Athletics

Jakob Ingebrigtsen and Karoline Bjerkeli Grovdal made it a memorable day for Norway at the SPAR European Cross Country Championships in Fingal-Dublin.

Ingebrigtsen and Grovdal victorious at European Cross Country Championships

This week marks the opening of the voting process for the 2021 World Athletes of the Year ahead of the&nbsp;World Athletics Awards 2021&nbsp;to be held in December.
World Athletics is pleased to confirm a list of 10 nominees for Male World Athlete of the Year who were selected by an international panel of athletics experts, comprising representatives from all six continental areas of World Athletics.
The nominations reflect the remarkable range of exceptional performances that the sport has witnessed this year, at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, one-day meeting circuits and other events around the world.
Commenting on the Awards, World Athletics President Sebastian Coe said: &ldquo;As always, the World Athletics Awards will recognise athletes who have performed at the highest level across the year, taking into account not only the Olympic Games, but the one-day meeting circuits. We do recognise that athletes in some parts of the world faced greater challenges than others in accessing international competition this year, which complicated the nomination process. However, we saw some impressive breakthroughs at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games and we look forward to those athletes having more opportunities to shine next year, with five World Athletics Series events and a full schedule of one-day meetings on the calendar."
The nominees for 2021 Male World Athlete of the Year are (in alphabetical order):
Joshua Cheptegei, UGA - Olympic 5000m champion - Olympic 10,000m silver medallist - World-leading 8:09.55 for two miles
Ryan Crouser, USA - Olympic and Diamond League shot put champion - Undefeated all year - World shot put records indoors and outdoors
Mondo Duplantis, SWE - Olympic pole vault champion - Diamond League pole vault champion - European indoor pole vault champion
Jakob Ingebrigtsen, NOR - Olympic 1500m champion - European indoor 1500m champion - European 1500m and 5000m records
Eliud Kipchoge, KEN - Olympic marathon champion - Largest winning margin in men&rsquo;s Olympic marathon since 1972 - Winner of Enschede Marathon
Pedro Pichardo, POR - Olympic triple jump champion - Diamond League triple jump champion - European indoor triple jump champion
Daniel Stahl, SWE - Olympic discus champion - Diamond League discus champion - Threw world-leading 71.40m
Miltiadis Tentoglou, GRE - Olympic long jump champion - European indoor long jump champion - Jumped world-leading 8.60m
Damian Warner, CAN - Olympic decathlon champion - Winner at the G&ouml;tzis Hypo Meeting - National and Olympic record of 9018, moved to fourth on the world all-time list
Karsten Warholm, NOR - Olympic 400m hurdles champion&nbsp; - Diamond League 400m hurdles champion - World 400m hurdles record and world 300m hurdles best
A three-way voting process will determine the finalists.
The World Athletics Council and the World Athletics Family will cast their votes by email, while fans can vote online via the World Athletics social media platforms. Individual graphics for each nominee will be posted on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram this week; a 'like' on Facebook and Instagram or a retweet on Twitter will count as one vote.
The World Athletics Council&rsquo;s vote will count for 50% of the result, while the World Athletics Family&rsquo;s votes and the public votes will each count for 25% of the final result.
Voting for the World Athletes of the Year closes at midnight on Saturday 6 November. At the conclusion of the voting process, five men and five women finalists will be announced by World Athletics.
The male and female World Athletes of the Year will be announced live at the World Athletics Awards 2021 in December.&nbsp;
Further information about the World Athletics Awards 2021 will be announced in the weeks leading up to the event.
The female nominees will be announced tomorrow, Friday 22 October.
World Athletics

World Athletics is pleased to confirm a list of 10 nominees for Male World Athlete of the Year.

Nominees announced for Male World Athlete of the Year 2021

Jakob Ingebrigtsen capped his stunning rise from precocious talent to global middle distance superstar with a powerful victory in the 1500m in Tokyo on Saturday (7).
Yet again, the 20-year-old Norwegian illustrated poise, speed and confidence beyond his years with a virtuoso performance in the highest quality 1500m championship race in history that culminated in a 3:28.32 Olympic record which also smashed his own European record.
And in the end, it wasn't even close.
Ingebrigtsen took command just 200 metres into the race to bring the field through the first lap in 56.4. That forced Timothy Cheruiyot's hand, whose penchant for fast front-running has electrified the event in recent years, leaving his opponents gasping in his wake. But Ingebrigtsen didn't seem to mind when Cheruiyot took the lead just over one lap into the race, ably giving chase as the Kenyan upped the pace from the front for the next 800 or so metres.
Stewart McSweyn was best at trying to keep within striking distance, but drifted back as he entered the back straight for the final time, turning the contest into a two-man race.
Cheruiyot poured it on but Ingebrigtsen was never farther than a metre back, simply waiting for his time to pounce. That came just beyond the midway point of the final turn, when Ingebrigtsen shifted into a gear Cheruiyot had never witnessed on the final lap of a race. Unable to summon a response, he simply watched the young Norwegian's back move further and further away. Ingebrigsten glanced to his side briefly as he powered down the homestretch. With victory secure, he raised his arms into the air just before he reached the line.
Cheruiyot felt some pressure in the waning stages and held on to take silver in 3:29.01, holding off Briton Josh Kerr, who powered to a 3:29.05 run, to smash his lifetime best by two-and-a-half seconds.
This was the first time Ingebrigtsen defeated Cheruiyot in their 13 meetings. It likely won't be the last.
"This is what you want as a professional runner," Ingebrigtsen said. "I&rsquo;ve been able to do it on my first try and I feel like I am just getting started. But at the same time, I have been dreaming of this for my whole life." 
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 Ingebrigtsen&rsquo;s star began to rise half a decade ago when his assault on age group records in the 1500m and mile began. The 2018 European Championships, where he raced to 1500m and 5000m gold, served as his coming out party. Tokyo may serve as the starting point of a new 1500m era.
Notable too is that Ingebrigtsen handed Cheruiyot a rare defeat when the Kenyan was arguably at his best. Just one month ago, Cheruiyot clocked 3:28.28 in the Monaco leg of the Wanda Diamond League, a personal best.
"He's a good racer, he's a good athlete, a disciplined athlete. I'm happy about him," Cheruiyot said. But he added, "In the last 100 metres, I was feeling tired.&nbsp;I was feeling my right hamstring so I didn't manage to run to the finish line fast."
"It&rsquo;s pretty surreal," said Kerr, a finalist at the 2019 World Championships. "It&rsquo;s something you dream about for so long. It&rsquo;s surreal when you are finally living that moment that you&rsquo;ve dreamed about for so long. It hasn&rsquo;t sunk in yet."
Kerr had a scare in the opening round heats where he finished seventh to barely advance to the semifinals.
"It&rsquo;s just testament to the team around me to get me into this position. From a small q into the semifinal to the bronze medal, I&rsquo;ve just got to be pleased with that."
Cheruiyot's teammate Abel Kipsang, who ran in third for much of the final lap, faded down the homestretch, clocking 3:29.56, also a lifetime best, to finish fourth. Behind him, Spain's Adel Mechaal and Cole Hocker of the US stopped the clock in 3:30.77 and 3:31.40, personal bests for both.
McSweyn paid for his early efforts over the last lap, eventually fading to seventh in 3:31.91. Further back, Michal Rozmys of Poland finished eighth in 3:32.67, also a career best.
Bob Ramsak for World Athletics
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<td style="width: 60%; background-color: #e9c968;">Jakob Ingebrigtsen 🇳🇴 NOR</td>
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<td style="width: 60%; background-color: #ced4d9;">Timothy Cheruiyot 🇰🇪 KEN</td>
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<td style="width: 60%; background-color: #bd895e;">Josh Kerr 🇬🇧 GBR</td>
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Jakob Ingebrigtsen capped his stunning rise from precocious talent to global middle distance superstar with a powerful victory in the 1500m in Tokyo on Saturday.