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Nationality | Norwegian | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | 14 September 2005 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Athletics | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Event(s) | Middle distance and long distance running | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Personal best(s) | 800m: 1:50.85 (2024) 1500m: 3:38.32 (2024) 3000m: 7:47.07 (2023) 5000m: 14:16.74 (2022) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Andreas Fjeld Halvorsen (born 14 September 2005) is a Norwegian middle distance and long distance runner. He was a gold medalist at the 2024 World Athletics U20 Championships over 3000 metres. [1]
He was a silver medalist at the 2022 European Athletics U18 Championships in both the 1500 metres and the 3000 metres in Jerusalem. [2]
In September 2023, he broke Jakob Ingebrigtsen's Norwegian junior record in the 3000 metres, running 7.47.04 in Trier. [3]
In March 2024, he won Norwegian indoor U20 titles over 800 metres and 1500 metres, setting championship records in both distances. [4] In June 2024, he was runner up to Jakob Ingebritsen at the Norwegian national championships over 1500 metres. [5]
He won the gold medal in the 3000 metres at the 2024 World Athletics U20 Championships in Lima, Peru. [6] [7]
Daniel Kipngetich Komen is a Kenyan middle- and long-distance runner. Remembered for his rivalry with Haile Gebrselassie, his most notable achievements came in a two-year period between 1996 and 1998, during which he broke a string of world records.
Henrik Ingebrigtsen is a Norwegian middle-distance runner who competes mainly in the 1500 metres. He represented Norway at the 2012 and 2016 Summer Olympics. His younger brothers, Filip Ingebrigtsen and Jakob Ingebrigtsen, are also middle-distance runners, the latter of which won the 1500m gold at the 2020 games.
Karoline Bjerkeli Grøvdal is a Norwegian middle-, long-distance and steeplechase runner. She won bronze medals for the 10,000 metres at the 2016 European Championships, and in the 3000 m steeplechase at the 2018 European Championships. Grøvdal earned nine individual medals at the European Cross Country Championships, an unsurpassed record by a female athlete in the meet history.
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Filip Mangen Ingebrigtsen is a Norwegian middle-distance runner who represents Sandnes Idrettslag. In 2016, Ingebrigtsen became European Champion at 1500 meters during the European Championships in Amsterdam, and took bronze over the same distance at the World Championships in 2017 in London. He previously held the Norwegian 1500m record with the time 3:30.01, set at a Diamond League meet in Monaco on 20 July 2018. At the 2019 London Diamond League Ingebrigtsen finished second to Samuel Tefera in the mile. With a time of 3:49.60 Ingebrigtsen ran a national record and new personal best.
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Neil Gourley is a Scottish middle-distance runner specialising in the 1500 metres. He won the silver medal in the event at the 2023 European Indoor Championships and bronze at the 2015 European Under-23 Championships.
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Yared Nuguse is an American professional middle-distance runner who specializes in the 1500 meters. He was the 2019 NCAA Division I champion in the event and bronze medalist from the 2024 Summer Olympics. Nuguse is the North American outdoor record holder over the one mile distance, and the North American indoor record holder for the 1500 meters, one mile and 3000 meters.
Narve Gilje Nordås is a Norwegian athlete competing in middle-distance and long-distance events. He is a World Championships (2023) bronze medalist and two-time Olympian, having competed at the 2020 and 2024 Summer Olympics.
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Cameron Myers is an Australian track and field athlete. In 2023, he broke the world record for the fastest mile by a sixteen year-old, and became the second youngest person in the world to ever have run a sub-four minute mile. Aged sixteen, he took the Australian national under-20 mile record. Myers broke Jakob Ingebrigtsen's mile, 1500m and 3000m age-group records.
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