Josh Kerr beats American Cole Hocker, the person who pipped him to Olympic gold in Paris in 2024, to complete quickest in 7:35.56; Dina Asher-Smith suffers disappointment in ladies’s 60m ultimate, ending seventh; Keely Hodgkinson cruises via to Sunday’s ladies’s 800m ultimate
Final Up to date: 21/03/26 9:57pm
Josh Kerr celebrates his gold for Nice Britain within the males’s 3,000m on the World Athletics Indoor Championships
Josh Kerr received gold for Nice Britain on the World Athletics Indoor Championships in Poland, reclaiming the lads’s 3,000m title he first received two years in the past in Glasgow.
The Edinburgh athlete bounced again from an injury-plagued 2025 to beat American Cole Hocker, the person who pipped him to Olympic gold in Paris, to complete quickest in 7:35.56.
Kerr, the 2023 world 1,500m champion, sustained a grade-two calf tear within the when defending his title eventually summer season’s World Championships in Japan, and credited his mum for his return to high kind.
“From where we were in Tokyo to right now, having another world gold medal, that’s all down to coaching, it’s all down to physio and my mum. That’s a family win right there,” Kerr instructed the BBC.
Kerr added that earlier than these championships in Torun there was a time he couldn’t even stroll himself to breakfast, and that the velocity of his restoration had stunned even himself.
He was not wholly happy by how the race unfolded in Poland, nonetheless, however was nonetheless relieved to get the job carried out.
The Scotsman hovered patiently behind the pack leaders, selecting his second to surge in entrance with about 200 metres remaining, and managed to carry off a final-stretch fightback from Hocker, who took silver forward of France’s Yann Schrub in bronze.
“For people watching, that is not how you win a world final,” Kerr stated. “I knew that I had to get that close or else I might be having a pretty tough conversation with my coach.
“I used to be extraordinarily match coming into this. Clearly I had some issues coming into British champs, however this was the principle objective.
“From a coaching and staff standpoint, and from just general work, I needed this one.”
Asher-Smith misses out in dash ultimate as Hodgkinson cruises via semi
Elsewhere, as a part of the Saturday’s night’s motion in Torun, Swedish pole vaulter Armand Duplantis received a fourth world title with a championship report 6.25m clearance.
There was disappointment, in the meantime, for British sprinter Dina Asher-Smith as she completed seventh within the ladies’s 60m ultimate.
The 30-year-old had tied her personal nationwide report, 7.03 seconds, to qualify for the ultimate, the place her time of seven.07 wasn’t fairly sufficient for a spot on the rostrum.
“I’m disappointed, because I’m definitely in a great place,” Asher-Smith instructed the BBC. “I was hoping to go sub-seven today, but it just wasn’t to be. It is what it is.”
Keely Hodgkinson cruised into the ladies’s 800m ultimate on Sunday
Earlier, within the afternoon session, Britain’s Keely Hodgkinson strolled via to the ultimate of the ladies’s 800m as she managed her semi-final from the entrance.
The Olympic champion is a sizzling favorite for gold after setting a brand new world indoor report of 1:54.87 in France final month, and she or he crossed the road right here in 1:58.53.
“It was good to get back out there again. Looking forward to my day and a half off now,” the 24-year-old instructed the BBC with half a watch on Sunday’s ultimate.
“Even if you’re not running at your full exertion, the adrenaline of coming to the stadium and getting on the start line, you still get nervous every round and you can underestimate how much energy it takes out of you.
“However that is the thrilling half. I am going to see what we will carry tomorrow.”
