Moh Ahmed, Cooper Teare, & More Added to 2025 Millrose Men’s 3,000m Field That Features Cole Hocker and Grant Fisher
Olympic medalists Cole Hocker & Grant Fisher were previously announced
By Jonathan GaultLast month, LetsRun.com broke the news that America’s two best distance runners, Grant Fisher and Cole Hocker, will face each other in the 3,000 meters at the Millrose Games on February 8 in New York. Today, LetsRun.com can reveal the rest of the field for the men’s 3,000.
In addition to Fisher and Hocker, the field features six more Olympians from five countries: Canadian Moh Ahmed, Kenyan Edwin Kurgat, South African Adriaan Wildschutt, Frenchman Jimmy Gressier, and Australians Ollie Hoare and Stewart McSweyn.
They are joined by Americans Dylan Jacobs, Cooper Teare, Olin Hacker, Sean McGorty, and Liam Murphy, as well as Australian Ky Robinson of the On Athletics Club, a two-time NCAA champion at Stanford University.
2025 Millrose Games men’s 3,000m field
Athlete | Country | Affiliation | Personal best |
Grant Fisher | USA | Nike | 7:25.47 |
Stewart McSweyn | Australia | Nike/Melbourne TC | 7:28.02 |
Edwin Kurgat | Kenya | Under Armour Dark Sky | 7:28.53 |
Moh Ahmed | Canada | Nike Bowerman TC | 7:31.96 |
Sean McGorty | USA | Nike Bowerman TC | 7:32.79 |
Adriaan Wildschutt | South Africa | HOKA One One NAZ Elite | 7:32.99 |
Cooper Teare | USA | Nike | 7:34.70 |
Cole Hocker | USA | Nike | 7:35.35 |
Ky Robinson | Australia | On Athletics Club | 7:36.69 |
Dylan Jacobs | USA | On Athletics Club | 7:36.89 |
Olin Hacker | USA | HOKA One One NAZ Elite | 7:38.10 |
Jimmy Gressier | France | Kiprun | 7:39.70 |
Liam Murphy | USA | Villanova University | 7:42.51 |
Ollie Hoare | Australia | On Athletics Club | 7:48.81 |
Below, four quick takes on the additions to the field.
Can anyone break up Fisher and Hocker?
Last year at Millrose, Grant Fisher and Cole Hocker finished 2nd and 3rd in this race (which was a 2-mile instead of a 3000), running 8:03.62 and 8:05.70, the two fastest 2-mile times ever by Americans. Since then, the two have only gotten better, combining for three US titles and three Olympic medals outdoors, and the only guy to beat them at 2024 Millrose, Josh Kerr, is running the Wanamaker Mile this year instead. Can anyone challenge them in 2025?
Of course it’s possible. On paper, Fisher and Hocker are the class of the field, but Millrose is the first big race of the year for most of these guys, and early-season meets are a great spot for upsets. You never know who has made a leap in the offseason and who might be nursing an injury. Moh Ahmed was 4th in the Olympic 10,000 last year, and both Edwin Kurgat (7:28/12:57, 7th in the Olympic 5,000) and Adriaan Wildschutt (7:32/12:56, 10th Olympic 10,000) are coming off career years. Those three could all be in the mix late.
What does Cooper Teare do in 2025?
This is not a question that will be answered until the end of the year, but we’ll get an idea of Teare’s current spot in the US pecking order at Millrose. Teare won the US 1500 title back in 2022 but since then, the competition has gotten much tougher. Teare has improved his personal bests since then as well, but he has had a pair of rough outings at the US outdoor championships. Can he turn things around in 2025 and make a US team again? And will he continue to run both the 1500 and 5,000 or try to focus on just one event?
Can Ollie Hoare rebound from a rough end to 2024?
Like Teare, Hoare is looking to return to how things were a few years ago. And like Teare, Hoare’s rivals have improved in the interim. Hoare defeated Josh Kerr to win the Wanamaker Mile at Millrose in 2022 and was one of the best milers in the world that year, running an Australian record of 3:47.48 in the mile and claiming gold at a loaded Commonwealth Games. But he has not made a global outdoor final since the 2021 Olympics, and he melted down at the end of 2024, failing to make it out of the repechage round at the Olympics and struggling in late-season Diamond Leagues. Can Hoare, who turns 28 on Wednesday, get back to running with the world’s best?
Watch out for Villanova’s Liam Murphy
Murphy, 22, has followed a similar path to North Carolina’s Ethan Strand in the last 12 months. Both men finished 4th at 2024 NCAA indoors (Strand in the mile, Murphy in the 3,000). Both struggled at NCAA outdoors (Strand was 9th in the 1500, Murphy 11th) before rebounding to make the 1500 final at the Olympic Trials, crossing the line together in their semifinal (Murphy was 11th in the final, Strand 12th). At NCAA XC in November, Strand finished 8th with Murphy three seconds behind in 9th.
Does that mean Murphy is going to go out and run 7:30 at Millrose? That’s an unfair expectation. But, like Strand, Murphy has great endurance and a big kick, and he has run well in his two indoor races this season, a 13:10 5,000 pb at BU in December and a 3:54 mile last week in Philadelphia. He’ll have a great opportunity to do something special against the pros at Millrose.