Athletics - World Athletics Championship - Men's 1500m Final - National Athletics Centre, Budapest, Hungary - August 23, 2023 Gold medallist Britain's Josh Kerr celebrates with his medal after the final REUTERS/Aleksandra Szmigiel
BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Briton Josh Kerr pulled off one of the shocks of the World Championships when he beat Olympic champion and hot favourite Jakob Ingebrigtsen in an absolute carbon copy of last year's final to take 1,500m gold on Wednesday.
Favourite in 2022, Norway's Ingebrigtsen was outkicked by Britain's Jake Wightman to miss out on gold and Kerr, the Tokyo Olympic bronze medallist behind Ingebrigtsen, made his move at about the same spot with 200 metres to go.
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