Ingebrigtsen takes 1,500m, completing distance double at indoor track and field worlds

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Jakob Ingebrigtsen completed a aureate treble by capturing the men's 1,500-metre rubric connected the last time of the World Indoor Athletics Championships connected Sunday, a time aft the Norwegian claimed the 3,000 crown.

Captured men's 3,000m contention connected Saturday; Tsegay sets lawsuit people successful women's 1,500

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· Posted: Mar 23, 2025 11:22 AM EDT | Last Updated: 6 minutes ago

Winner Jakob Ingebrigtsen of Norway celebrates aft crossing the decorativeness enactment successful the men's 3,000-metre last astatine the World Athletics Indoor Championships connected March 22, 2025 successful Nanjing, China.

Victory successful 3 minutes 38.79 seconds successful Nanjing, China meant Ingebrigtsen besides matched the feat of Ethiopian large Haile Gebrselassie who won the treble astatine the 1999 indoor worlds successful Maebashi, Japan.

The 24-year-old Ingebrigtsen had warmed up for the planetary gathering with a akin effort astatine the European indoors successful Apeldoorn, successful the Netherlands, earlier this month.

"Of course, this is thing special," said Ingebrigtsen.

"It's precise hard to comparison yourself against past and what others are doing. I'm lone focusing connected myself and consciousness bully to person done a batch of preparations, and that was the main goal.

"It's not to bash with thing idiosyncratic other did before. I deliberation I tin bash more, truthful I'll effort to maximize that and drawback the accidental fixed to me."

The Olympic 5,000 champion was hardly troubled aft helium took the pb midway and staved disconnected Briton Neil Gourley, who claimed metallic successful 3:39.07, portion American Luke Houser took bronze successful 3:39.17.

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Norway's Jakob Ingebrigtsen sets caller indoor mile satellite record

Jakob Ingebrigtsen of Norway wins the men's mile astatine the Meeting Hauts-de-France Pas-de-Calais with a clip of 3:45.14 to found a caller indoor satellite record. Quebec City's Charles Philibert-Thiboutot finishes fourth.

Ethiopia's Gudaf Tsegay acceptable a title grounds of 3:54.86 en way to the women's 1,500 title, up of compatriot Diribe Welteji, who crossed the enactment successful 3:59.30. Briton Georgia Hunter Bell completed the podium successful 3:59.84.

Norwegian wins men's heptathlon

"It wasn't an casual race, this was a accelerated time, truthful I'm precise blessed astir that," Tsegay said.

"It was my grooming that led to this."

Ingebrigtsen's compatriot Sander Skotheim claimed the men's heptathlon golden with a coagulated showing, finishing up of Estonian Johannes Erm and German Till Steinforth.
American Josh Hoey won his archetypal satellite indoor rubric successful the men's 800 successful 1:44.77, portion South Africa's Prudence Sekgodiso won the women's rubric with a world-leading 1:58.40.

Italy's Mattia Furlani won a fiercely contested agelong leap lawsuit with a leap of 8.30, bettering Jamaica's Wayne Pinnock who managed 8.29. Australia's Liam Adcock took bronze with 8.28 successful his archetypal indoor competition.
New Zealand's Tom Walsh collected his 3rd indoor rubric and archetypal successful 7 years successful the changeable enactment contention with a season's champion propulsion of 21.65m.

The United States reigned ultimate successful the men's and women's 4x400 relays to headdress disconnected a palmy gathering successful which they topped the medals tally with 16 -- six gold, 4 metallic and six bronze.

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