Team USA achieved a remarkable feat not seen in 112 years—having two medalists in the men’s 1,500-meter race at the Olympics.
Cole Hocker and Yared Nuguse overtook Norway’s Jakob Ingebrigtsen and Great Britain’s Josh Kerr in the race’s closing moments. Hocker discovered a gap and surged past Ingebrigtsen and Kerr, securing first place. Meanwhile, Nuguse also passed Ingebrigtsen to clinch third.
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Bronze medalist Yared Nuguse of Team USA, silver medalist Josh Kerr of Team Great Britain, gold medalist Cole Hocker of Team USA, and Jakob Ingebrigtsen of Team Norway crossing the finish line during the Men’s 1500m Final on day eleven of the Olympic Games Paris 2024 at Stade de France on August 06, 2024, in Paris, France. (Christian Petersen/Getty Images)
Hocker finished with a time of 3:27.65, taking home the gold medal and setting an Olympic record. Nuguse achieved his personal best at 3:27.80. Ingebrigtsen, the defending Olympic champion, did not finish in the top three.
This marks Hocker’s first Olympic medal. Earlier that year, he secured a silver in the 1,500 at the World Indoor Championships in Glasgow.
It’s also a first Olympic medal for Nuguse, who won silver in the 3,000-meter event at the World Indoor Championships earlier this year.
US runner Cole Hocker wins the men’s 1500m final, with Yared Nuguse (L) and Britain’s Josh Kerr at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games at Stade de France, Saint-Denis, north of Paris, on August 6, 2024. (DAVID GRAY/AFP via Getty Images)
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Hobbs Kessler, another American, secured fifth place with a personal best of 3:29.45.
The last time American runners achieved two medals in the 1,500-meter event was during the 1912 Olympics in Stockholm, when Abel Kiviat and Norman Taber took silver and bronze, respectively.
Cole Hocker of Team USA celebrates his victory in the Men’s 1500m Final at Stade de France on the 11th day of the 2024 Paris Olympic Games. (John Walton/PA Images via Getty Images)
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American Matthew Centrowitz Jr. took gold in the event in 2016 at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics. The previous American gold medalist was Mel Sheppard during the 1908 Games.
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