Within the penultimate assembly of the 2024 Diamond League season on Thursday, the lads’s 1,500m occasion noticed yet one more unanticipated end; Olympic bronze medallist Yared Nuguse of the U.S. took his third-career Diamond League win at Weltklasse Zurich with a time of three:29.21. He out-kicked Norway’s Jakob Ingebrigtsen (3:29.52) within the last 50m of the race, beating him for the second time this season.
The 25-year-old, nicknamed “The Goose,” clocked even splits of 55.92, 55.97 and 55.12 (after a gap 300m of 42.2 seconds), to run his third-fastest time of the yr behind his Olympic bronze triumph in 3:27.80, and three:29.13 from Monaco Diamond League in July.
Zurich marked a well-awaited rematch among the many males’s 1,500m Olympic podium finishers–Cole Hocker, Josh Kerr and Nuguse–with Ingebrigtsen, who was fourth in Paris. Though the huge upset and win by Hocker in Paris left gold-medal favorite Ingebrigtsen off the rostrum fully, Ingebrigtsen had re-established his dominance since then, beating Hocker by greater than two seconds on the Lausanne Diamond League and smashing the three,000m world file on the Silesia Diamond League three days later. Now, Nuguse has knocked Ingebrigtsen off the pedestal as soon as once more.
Hocker took third in 3:30.46, Niels Laros of the Netherlands took fourth in 3:31.23, and Olympic silver medallist Kerr took a shocking fifth-place end in 3:31.46. Kerr stated within the pre-race press convention that he took every week off to go to his family and friends in Scotland after the Olympic last.
Nuguse’s win in Zurich got here only a day after his dedication to the Diamond League’s rival circuit: Grand Slam Monitor, for the 2025 season.
Nuguse may not have been the plain favorite for the win in Zurich, however his efficiency within the stacked occasion confirmed that he shouldn’t be counted out on the Diamond League last in Brussels subsequent week.
