The defending champion of Olympic failure at 1,500 meters of world athletics

Ingebrigtsen proves the number of candidates when leading in the final round. But Wightman still retains the speed and catches up when it is 200 m away. After that, his 28 -year -old legs ran up to go home with 3 minutes 29.23 seconds. This is the best achievement of 1,500m in the world this year.

Inenbrigtsen, a 21 -year -old Norwegian foot, came second with 3 minutes 29.47 seconds. The Spanish athlete, Mohamed Katir, rolled the third destination with 3 minutes 29.90 seconds. Both are the best personal achievements of Innerebrigtsen and Katir from the beginning of the season.

The latest result of Inenbrigtsen is far behind the achievement when he won the Tokyo Olympic Games last year - 3 minutes 28.32 seconds - the number and a record at the Olympics, Europe and Norway. The world record, 3 minutes 26 seconds was established in 1998, still belonged to the former athlete Morocco, Hicham El Guerrouj.

This is the first time Wightman won gold medal running 1,500m in international tournaments. The best previous achievement of the British 28 -year -old athlete is the European Championship Medal in 2018. At the 2019 World Championship and the Tokyo Olympic Games, Wightman is only fifth and tenth.

"My son. He is the world champion," Wightman's father and coach, Geoff, holds a microphone at Hayward Field, in Eugene, Oregon, the place to host the world championship this year.

Wightman was the first British athlete to win the world championship running 1,500m since Steve Cram in 1983. African athletes dominated this content, with 13 champions in 18 tournaments. The remaining five champions belong to two British athletes, two Bahrain athletes and one US athletes.