BUDAPEST: Briton Josh Kerr pulled off one of the shocks of the World Championships when he beat Olympic champion and hot favourite Jakob Ingebrigtsen in a carbon copy of last year’s final to take 1,500m gold on Wednesday.
Favourite in 2022, Norway’s Ingebrigtsen was outkicked by Britain’s Jake Wightman to miss out on gold and Kerr, the Tokyo Olympic bronze medallist behind Ingebrigtsen, made his move at about the same spot with 200m to go.
Kerr dug deep to stay in front and won in 3 minutes 29.38 seconds with Ingebrigtsen, whose 3 minute 27.14 second run in Poland five weeks ago made him the fourth-fastest man in history, taking silver in 3 minutes 29.65 seconds.
Norwegian Narve Gilje Nordas secured the bronze in 3 minutes 29.68 seconds.