Indianapolis Cathedral High School grad Cole Hocker ran brilliantly at the Paris Olympics Tuesday, winning gold in the men’s 1500 meters.
Hocker achieved special speed for the event as well, setting a new Olympic record of 3:27.65. He beat both favorites Jakob Ingebrigsten and Josh Kerr to the finish, Hocker quickly moving from 5th place to the front in the last 300 meters. He wound up surpassing his own personal best by more than 3 seconds.
Hocker was 14 hundredths of a second faster than Kerr, while Ingebrigsten, who’d set the pace for the first 80% of the race, ended up in 4th place, behind fellow American Yared Nuguse. Congrats again to Cole Hocker.