Great Britain’s Revee Walcott-Nolan won 1500m bronze at the European Athletics Indoor Championships as gold-medal favourite Georgia Hunter Bell missed out on the podium.
Olympic 1500m bronze medallist Hunter Bell, the fastest European across the distance so far this year, led at the bell but could not maintain her push for a first major international title and faded in the closing stages.
The two British athletes crossed the line together in four minutes 08.45 seconds, but it was Walcott-Nolan who was awarded her first international medal by one thousandth of a second.
France’s Agathe Guillemot finished strongest to take gold in 4:07.23, ahead of Portugal’s Salome Afonso (4:07.66) in Friday night’s final in Apeldoorn, the Netherlands.
In the men’s final, Britain’s Neil Gourley missed out on the podium in fourth as Jakob Ingebrigtsen claimed his sixth European indoor title.
The Norwegian Olympic 5,000m champion took charge over the second half of the race to claim gold in 3:36.56, ahead of Frenchman Azeddine Habz, who took bronze behind Gourley in 2023.
Gourley ran 3:38.29 but lost touch with the front three, which also included Portugal’s bronze medallist Isaac Nader, on the final lap.
The win means Ingebrigtsen, still only 24 years old, has the chance to equal the men’s record for the most European indoor titles by claiming his seventh gold in the 3,000m, the heats for which take place on Saturday.
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