Nice Britain’s Revee Walcott-Nolan gained 1500m bronze on the European Athletics Indoor Championships as gold-medal favorite Georgia Hunter Bell missed out on the rostrum.
Olympic 1500m bronze medallist Hunter Bell, the quickest European throughout the space thus far this yr, led on the bell however couldn’t preserve her push for a primary main worldwide title and light within the closing phases.
The 2 British athletes crossed the road collectively in 4 minutes 08.45 seconds, however it was Walcott-Nolan who was awarded her first worldwide medal by one thousandth of a second.
France’s Agathe Guillemot completed strongest to take gold in 4:07.23, forward of Portugal’s Salome Afonso (4:07.66) in Friday night time’s last in Apeldoorn, the Netherlands.
Within the males’s last, Britain’s Neil Gourley missed out on the rostrum in fourth as Jakob Ingebrigtsen claimed his sixth European indoor title.
The Norwegian Olympic 5,000m champion took cost over the second half of the race to assert gold in 3:36.56, forward of Frenchman Azeddine Habz, who took bronze behind Gourley in 2023.
Gourley ran 3:38.29 however misplaced contact with the entrance three, which additionally included Portugal’s bronze medallist Isaac Nader, on the ultimate lap.
The win means Ingebrigtsen, nonetheless solely 24 years outdated, has the prospect to equal the lads’s report for essentially the most European indoor titles by claiming his seventh gold within the 3,000m, the heats for which happen on Saturday.
