2015 Euro Indoor Final Day Distance Results: Chris O'Hare Beats Out Germany's Homiyu Tesfaye For 1500 Bronze

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  • Soprano
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    4 years ago 03/09/2015 3:34am CDT
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    Full Sunday Recap: http://www.iaaf.org/news/report/belgium-european-indoor-4x400m-record-2015
    Results: http://www.european-athletics.org/competitions/european-athletics-indoor-championships/2015/schedules-results/day=2015-03-08/index.html?intcmp=sr-byday

    Men's 1500: Czech Republic's Jakub Holusa thrilled the home crowd with a surprise win over Turkey's İlham Tanui Özbilen. Former NCAA champ Chris O'Hare got the bronze over Germany's Homiyu Tesfaye who was one of the favorites coming in. Race video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XQr62XOynk

    1 Jakub Holuša CZE 20 Feb 88 3:37.68 NR PB »
    2 İlham Tanui Özbilen TUR 5 Mar 90 3:37.74 SB «
    3 Chris O'Hare GBR 23 Nov 90 3:38.96 SB «
    4 Homiyu Tesfaye GER 23 Jun 93 3:39.08 « »
    5 Charlie Grice GBR 7 Nov 93 3:39.43 PB »
    6 Henrik Ingebrigtsen NOR 24 Feb 91 3:39.70 NR PB »
    7 John Travers IRL 16 Mar 91 3:41.50 « »
    8 Valentin Smirnov RUS 13 Feb 86 3:41.88 « »
    9 Artur Ostrowski POL 10 Jul 88 3:44.98 « »

    Women's 1500: Sifan Hassan came through as the favorite to win.

    1 Sifan Hassan NED 1 Jan 93 4:09.04 « »
    2 Angelika Cichocka POL 15 Mar 88 4:10.53 « »
    3 Federica Del Buono ITA 12 Dec 94 4:11.61 « »
    4 Katarzyna Broniatowska POL 22 Feb 90 4:12.71 « »
    5 Gesa-Felicitas Krause GER 3 Aug 92 4:15.40 « »
    6 Rosie Clarke GBR 17 Nov 91 4:16.49 « »
    7 Diana Mezuliáníková CZE 10 Apr 92 4:16.93 PB »
    8 Renata Pliś POL 5 Feb 85 4:16.96 « »
    9 Florina Pierdevară ROU 29 Mar 90 4:17.05 « »
    10 Sonja Roman SLO 11 Mar 79 4:20.85 SB «
    11 Silvia Danekova BUL 7 Feb 83 4:25.44 « »

    Men's 800: Poland's Marcin Lewandowski wins it handily as Ireland's Mark English grabs 2nd.

    1 Marcin Lewandowski POL 13 Jun 87 1:46.67 « »
    2 Mark English IRL 18 Mar 93 1:47.20 « »
    3 Thijmen Kupers NED 4 Oct 91 1:47.25 SB «
    4 Andreas Almgren SWE 12 Jun 95 1:47.78 « »
    5 Robin Schembera GER 1 Oct 88 1:47.83 « »
    6 Guy Learmonth GBR 20 Apr 92 1:47.84 « »

    Women's 800: Switzerland's Selina Buchel wins it in 2:01.95 just beating Russia's Olympic bronze medalist Yekaterina Poistogova by .04. (Remember Poistogova was mentioned in the German documentary on Russian doping.)

    Jenny Meadows was a DNS as she pulled out with illness. I have to say I think it's a little lame that Meadows didn't run after protesting and getting another athlete DQd from the semis so she could make the final. That said, maybe there was some justice in it since the athlete DQd was a Russian and Meadows has lost her fair share of medals to Russian dopers. Although this particular Russian could very well be clean.

    I was rooting for Meadows coming in. From what I've read, she's overcome a lot to get back from injuries and she seems pretty tough, so I'm surprised she wouldn't race here even when sick. Maybe her illness was really that bad.

    Article on Meadows here; http://www.bbc.com/sport/0/athletics/31788430

    1 Selina Büchel SUI 26 Jul 91 2:01.95 « »
    2 Yekaterina Poistogova RUS 1 Mar 91 2:01.99 « »
    3 Nataliya Lupu UKR 4 Nov 87 2:02.25 « »
    4 Joanna Jóźwik POL 30 Jan 91 2:02.45 « »
    5 Aníta Hinriksdóttir ISL 13 Jan 96 2:02.74 « »
    Jenny Meadows GBR 17 Apr 81 DNS « »

    Friday Distance Results: http://www.letsrun.com/forum/flat_read.php?thread=6365042
    Saturday Distance: http://www.letsrun.com/forum/flat_read.php?thread=6367030
  • Sandness, NOR
    4 years ago 03/09/2015 11:16am CDT
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    really great to see O'Hare getting the bronze. it seems he's got a great future ahead of him, now with a commonwealth outdoor and euro indoor bronze. surprised to see henrik not finishing higher up in the standings, though his 3k could have taken some sting out.
  • MNM
    4 years ago 03/09/2015 11:37am CDT
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    That win by Holusa was stunning. Apparently the place was deafening.
  • mako
    4 years ago 03/09/2015 1:17pm CDT
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    MNM wrote:

    That win by Holusa was stunning. Apparently the place was deafening.

    It was, yet for some reason the title of this thread instead mentions the fight for bronze
  • w3rgh
    4 years ago 03/09/2015 5:52pm CDT
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    ingebrigtsen is probably one of my favorite runners out there, he's still got some years left too.
  • Soprano
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    4 years ago 03/09/2015 8:59pm CDT
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    mako wrote:

    MNM wrote:

    That win by Holusa was stunning. Apparently the place was deafening.

    It was, yet for some reason the title of this thread instead mentions the fight for bronze

    Chris O'Hare, a former NCAA champion, is a more recognizable name and more relevant to most people on the LetsRun message boards since he has an American connection. We did the same thing with Lee Emanuel and Kate Avery. Why was it relevant to mention that Avery didn't make the 3000 final? Because she's the NCAA XC Champ so people know who she is and care.

    Jakub Holusa hasn't been a big name at international meets (he has an 800 silver from World Indoor 2012, but otherwise hasn't been relevant at big meets) so isn't someone most people know. I gave him his due on the homepage where I said, "Czech Republic’s Jakub Houlsa thrilled the home crowd with a surprise win in the 1,500 over Turkey’s Tanui Ozbilen", but yes, I made the headline about Chris O'Hare to get people's attention.

    For the record, I did look for a picture of Houlsa to use instead of O'Hare, but we don't even have one in the LRC database as far as I could find: https://www.google.com/search?q=site:letsrun.com+jakub+houlsa&rlz=1CAACAG_enUS580JM581&es_sm=122&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=vE7-VJ7AIIyZgwTsz4PQBg&ved=0CAcQ_AUoAQ&biw=1366&bih=633
  • jjjjjjj
    4 years ago 03/09/2015 9:14pm CDT
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    I was thinking that Holusa had been an exchange student here in the U.S. but that was Zivec. That finish was impressive. Tanui had a huge lead with 200m to go at about 3:11 and he seemed to be going strong but Holusa came on like crazy and must have closed around 25. Cichocka, the silver medalist in the women's 1500m, was, I think, a medalist in the 800m at world indoors last year in Poland.