Experienced Cheruiyot headlines exciting 1500m as young stars gear up for Doha

Doha, Qatar: In a men s 1500m field bursting with youth and experience, Olympic silver medallist Timothy Cheruiyot (KEN) the world champion in Doha...

Doha, Qatar: In a men’s 1500m field bursting with youth and experience, Olympic silver medallist Timothy Cheruiyot (KEN) – the world champion in Doha 2019 – will line up against world bronze medallist Narve Gilje Nordas (NOR) and teenage record-breakers Biniam Mehary (ETH) and Reynold Cheruiyot (KEN) at the Diamond League Meeting on May 10 in Doha.

The 28-year-old Timothy Cheruiyot was a 1500m silver medallist at the World Athletics Championships in London 2017 before upgrading to gold in Doha. He finished sixth in Eugene in 2022 and has a lifetime best of 3:28.28 (2021). He ran a 3000m personal best of 7:36.72 in Doha last year.

Nordas excelled in 2023 with lifetime bests across a range of distances from 1500m (3:29.47) to 5000m (13:05.38). His World Championships bronze came in a memorable race in Budapest which saw him finish just three one-hundredths of a second behind countryman Jakob Ingebrigtsen. In March 2024 he finished fifth at the World Indoor Championships in Glasgow.

The 17-year-old Mehary and 19-year-old Reynold Cheruiyot – the world under-20 1500m champion and a finalist at the 2023 World Championships - have made their own headlines over the past 12 months setting world age-group records over 1500m indoors (3:34.83) and mile (3:48.06) respectively.

Other notable names on the start list include two-time world indoor 1500m champion and Ethiopian indoor record holder Samuel Tefera; Spain’s 1500m indoor record holder Adel Mechaal, fifth in the Tokyo Olympic Games; and Olympic and World Championships fourth-place finisher Abel Kipsang (KEN).