Within the penultimate assembly of the 2024 Diamond League season on Thursday, the lads’s 1,500m tournament noticed but any other 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 ultimate 50m of the race, beating him for the second one 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 at the back of his Olympic bronze triumph in 3:27.80, and three:29.13 from Monaco Diamond League in July.
Zurich marked a well-awaited rematch some of the males’s 1,500m Olympic podium finishers–Cole Hocker, Josh Kerr and Nuguse–with Ingebrigtsen, who used to be fourth in Paris. Even though the huge dissatisfied and win through Hocker in Paris left gold-medal favorite Ingebrigtsen off the rostrum fully, Ingebrigtsen had re-established his dominance since then, beating Hocker through greater than two seconds on the Lausanne Diamond League and smashing the three,000m global report on the Silesia Diamond League 3 days later. Now, Nuguse has knocked Ingebrigtsen off the pedestal as soon as once more.
Hocker took 1/3 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 mentioned within the pre-race press convention that he took every week off to talk over with his family and friends in Scotland after the Olympic ultimate.
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 no longer had been the most obvious favorite for the win in Zurich, however his efficiency within the stacked tournament showed that he will have to no longer be counted out on the Diamond League ultimate in Brussels subsequent week.