Six days after being disqualified from the semifinals in his specialist event, Olympic 1500m champion Cole Hocker stuck gold in the 5000m at the World Athletics Championships Tokyo 25.
The US runner sat in the pack for most of the way. Double Olympic medallist Grant Fisher and Ethiopia’s Hagos Gebrhiwet led for several laps, then Jakob Ingebrigtsen took a turn at the front with less than two kilometres to go. But when the big kicks started, Hocker had the best finish.
He crossed the line in 12:58.30 to take gold ahead of Belgium’s Isaac Kimeli (12:58.78) and 10,000m winner Jimmy Gressier (12:59.33).
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