Ingebrigtsen beats Olympic champion Hocker in rematch

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Jakob Ingebrigtsen blew distant 1500m men's Olympic champion Cole Hocker pinch a ascendant capacity astatine nan Diamond League gathering successful Lausanne.

The 23-year-old Norwegian had been nan dense favourite to triumph golden astatine Paris 2024, but misjudged nan title which allowed Hocker of nan United States to claim apical spot connected nan podium.

Ingebrigtsen yet ended that title successful 4th arsenic Great Britain's Josh Kerr and American Yared Nuguse besides passed him successful nan closing stages of nan race.

There were fewer signs of a hangover from Ingebrigtsen astatine Stade Olympique de la Pontaise arsenic he powered to an emphatic triumph successful 3 minutes 27.83 seconds.

Hocker vanished 2nd successful 3:29.85 while chap American Hobbs Kessler came third.

"It's been almost 2 weeks since Paris truthful location was plentifulness of clip to recover," Ingebrigtsen said.

"For maine a batch of it has been intelligence including going home, taking immoderate easy days and past getting backmost to work.

"Tonight's title gave maine bully answers and I'm looking guardant to building connected this for nan remainder of nan season."

George Mills vanished past successful nan men's 1500m - 9 seconds down Ingebrigtsen - but location were immoderate affirmative results for different British athletes successful Lausanne.

Matthew Hudson-Smith won nan men's 400m pinch a clip of 43.96 seconds.

He was group to face-off against Olympic champion Quincy Hall but nan American decided to withdraw.

Hall pipped Hudson-Smith to gold successful nan 400m astatine nan Games successful Paris by four-hundredths of a second.

Hudson-Smith acknowledged his thoughts person already turned to nan adjacent Olympics successful Los Angeles successful 2028.

He said: "My extremity is to triumph nan Olympic golden and to beryllium mentioned alongside Michael Johnson and Jeremy Wariner. It's each astir consistency, winning and ne'er giving up.

"I want to consistently beryllium 1 of nan champion ever and tally consistently nether 44 seconds, and possibly breaking nan 43-second barrier."

Dina Asher-Smith won nan women's 100m pinch a clip of 10.88 seconds while chap Briton Daryll Neita vanished seventh.

"After nan Olympics I took immoderate clip to refocus and now I'm conscionable enjoying running, emotion fresh and wounded free," Asher-Smith said.

Asher-Smith returned to nan way later successful nan evening to triumph nan women's 4x100m relay alongside Bianca Williams, Desiree Henry and Amy Hunt.

The British quartet vanished up of nan Swiss squad successful a clip of 42.03 seconds.

Elsewhere, Olympic bronze badge victor Georgia Bell vanished 2nd successful nan women's 800m, arsenic Kenya's Mary Moraa won successful 1 infinitesimal 57.91 seconds.

Her British team-mate Jemma Reekie, who missed retired connected a spot successful nan 800m last successful Paris, came third.

Kenya's Emmanuel Wanyonyi went adjacent to breaking David Rudisha's men's 800m world grounds astatine nan gathering successful Switzerland.

Wanyonyi repeated nan blistering shape that earned him golden astatine nan Olympics arsenic he clocked 1 infinitesimal 41.11 seconds - conscionable 0.20secs disconnected nan grounds group by Rudisha astatine London 2012.

It was nan associated second-fastest clip ever run, alongside Denmark's Wilson Kipketer.

Botswana's Letsile Tebogo ran an awesome 19.64 seconds to triumph nan men's 200m.

The 21-year-old, whose 200m triumph successful Paris was nan first ever golden for his country, had travel to Lausanne connected nan backmost of 8 days of nary training - having made a rapturous return to Gaborone.

The biggest daze of nan evening was successful nan men's 110m hurdles arsenic Olympic champion and three-time world golden victor Grant Holloway was beaten by Jamaica's Rasheed Broadbell, who won successful 13.10 seconds.

Dutchwoman Femke Bol won nan women's 400m hurdles successful 52.55 seconds, having won bronze successful Paris.

Sunday's Diamond League gathering successful Silesia, Poland will beryllium shown unrecorded connected BBC Two and via nan BBC iPlayer from 15:00 BST.

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