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2025 Prefontaine Classic
The 2025 Prefontaine Classic was the 50th edition of the annual outdoor track and field meeting in Eugene, Oregon, United States. It was held on 5 July May at Hayward Field, it was the 9th leg of the 2025 Diamond League – the highest-level international track and field circuit. Diamond+ results Starting in 2025 a new discipline of events was added called Diamond+, these 4 events per meet awarded athletes with increased prize money whilst keeping the standard points format to qualify for the Diamond league finals. First place earns 8 points, with each step down in place earning one less point than the previous, until no points are awarded in 9th place or lower. In the case of a tie, each tying athlete earns the full amount of points for the place. Men's Women's Diamond results Men's Women's Promotional events results Men's Women's See also * 2025 Diamond League References Results * {{Prefontaine Classic 9 Pref ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eugene, Oregon
Eugene ( ) is a city in and the county seat of Lane County, Oregon, United States. It is located at the southern end of the Willamette Valley, near the confluence of the McKenzie River (Oregon), McKenzie and Willamette River, Willamette rivers, about east of the Oregon Coast. The List of cities in Oregon, second-most populous city in Oregon, Eugene had a population of 176,654 as of the 2020 United States census and it covers city area of . The Eugene-Springfield, OR MSA, Eugene-Springfield metropolitan statistical area is the second largest in Oregon after Portland, Oregon, Portland. In 2022, Eugene's population was estimated to have reached 179,887. Eugene is home to the University of Oregon, Bushnell University, and Lane Community College. The city is noted for its natural environment, recreational opportunities (especially Cycling, bicycling, running/jogging, rafting, and kayaking), and focus on the arts, along with its history of civil unrest, riots, and green activism. Eug ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeremiah Azu
Jeremiah Azu (born 15 May 2001) is a Welsh sprinter. He is the 2025 European Indoor Champion and 2025 World Indoor Champion over 60 metres. In 2024, he became the first Welshman to run the 100 metres in under 10 seconds in wind-legal conditions. Azu is a three-time British champion, twice indoors over 60 m, once outdoors over 100 metres and a European Champion in the 4 × 100 metre relay. Career In 2022, Azu competed at the British Championships where he won the 100 metres in a wind-assisted time of 9.90 seconds. In his first senior international appearance, he won the bronze medal over 100 metres at the 2022 European Athletics Championships in a new personal best of 10.13 s, and a gold in the 4 × 100 metre relay at the same competition. The following year, Azu made it to the final of the 60 m at the European Indoor Championships, where he finished 6th. In June, competing in the 100 metres in the 2023 European Athletics Team Championships, as part of the 2023 E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stefan Nillessen
Stefan Nillessen (born 2 January 2003) is a Dutch middle-distance runner. In 2024, he won the Dutch Athletics Championships over 1500 metres, and also won over that distance at the Dutch Indoor Athletics Championships in 2025. He has competed at multiple major championships, including the 2024 Olympic Games. Career He was selected for the 1500 metres at the 2022 World Athletics U20 Championships in Cali, Colombia. He won gold in the 1500 metres at the 2023 European Athletics U23 Championships in Espoo, Finland. He is one of a group of athletes coached by Tomasz Lewandowski. He signed a sponsorship deal with Nike in 2024. He ran a personal best of 3:34.32 for the 1500 metres in Turku, Finland on 18 June 2024. He won the Dutch national title over 1500m at the Dutch Athletics Championships in Hengelo, in June 2024. He competed at the 2024 Summer Olympics over 1500 metres and ran a personal best to qualify for the final. In the final he lowered his personal best to 3:30.75 to plac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neil Gourley
Neil Gourley (born 7 February 1995) is a Scottish middle-distance runner specialising in the 1500 metres. He won the silver medal in the event at both the 2025 World Athletics Indoor Championships and the 2023 European Indoor Championships and bronze at the 2015 European Under-23 Championships. Gourley is the European indoor record holder for the mile and the British indoor record holder for the 1500 m. He is a three-time national champion (1500 m). Career Neil Gourley won the bronze medal in the 1500 metres at the 2015 European Under-23 Championships. He competed collegiately for the Virginia Tech Hokies, where in 2018 he anchored the men's distance medley relay team to an NCAA championship title. In 2019, Gourley reached the final of his specialist event in front of the home crowd at the European Indoor Championships in Glasgow but was unable to compete in it due an illness. On 25 February 2023, the 28-year-old broke Josh Kerr's British indoor 1500 m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Festus Lagat
Festus Lagat (born 10 October 1996) is a Kenyan middle-distance runner. Early life From Eldoret, Kenya, he is the eldest of three boys. He moved to the United States on a scholarship to study and run competition, starting at Gillette College before later transferring to Iowa State University. Career Running for Iowa State in April 2021, he was a member of the 4x800 metres relay team which set a new meeting record time at the Drake Relays. After leaving College, he became an Under Armour/District TC athlete based in the Washington, D.C. area. In 2022, he had a fourth-place finish in the 800 metres at the Kenyan World Championship Trials in Kasarani. He later became a member of UA Mission Run Dark Sky and became based in Flagstaff, Arizona. In March 2025, he ran 3:52.64 for the indoor mile in Boston, Massachusetts, clocking an indoor personal best of 3:37.52 for the 1500 metres. He was selected for the 2025 World Athletics Indoor Championships in Nanjing in March 2025, Kenya's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hobbs Kessler
Hobbs Kessler (born March 15, 2003) is an American middle-distance runner. He competes professionally for Adidas, having turned professional directly after high school. He holds the North American U20 record in the 1500 meters, having run 3:34.36 in 2021 during his senior year in high school. He briefly held the world record in the road mile set while winning the 2023 World Road Running Championships until it was broken by Emmanuel Wanyonyi on April 27, 2024. At the 2024 World Athletics Indoor Championships, he secured a bronze medal in the 1500 m. In June 2024, he made the United States Olympic Team by finishing third in the 1500m and second in the 800m at the 2024 United States Olympic Trials. He is the first American male athlete to qualify for the Olympic 1500m and 800m double since 1976. At the 2024 Summer Olympics, he finished fifth in the 1500 meter final. Running career High School Kessler competed for Skyline High School in Ann Arbor, Michigan, as the high sc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grant Fisher
Grant Jackson Fisher (born April 22, 1997) is an American middle- and long-distance runner who is the world record holder in the short track 3000 m and 5000 m. Fisher also holds American records in the 3000 m, two mile, and 10,000 m events. At the 2024 Paris Olympics, Fisher won bronze medals in the 5000 m and 10,000 m, becoming the first American to medal in both events at an Olympic Games. In high school, Fisher was named Gatorade Player of the Year for cross country for the 2013–2014 and 2014–2015 seasons. On June 4, 2015, he became the seventh American high school student to run a mile under four minutes. He competed for Stanford University from 2015 to 2019, where he was a 12-time All-American. At the 2017 NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championships, he won the 5000 m, becoming the first American underclassman to do so in 28 years. Fisher has competed professionally for Nike since 2019. Personal life Grant Fisher was born in Calgary, Alberta, on April 22, 1997, to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jake Wightman
Jake Wightman (born 11 July 1994) is a British Middle-distance running, middle-distance runner who primarily competes in the 1500 metres. He won the gold medal at the 2022 World Athletics Championships, 2022 World Championships, the first global gold in a middle distance event for a United Kingdom, British male since Seb Coe's 1500 m title at the Athletics at the 1984 Summer Olympics, 1984 Los Angeles Olympics. At the European Athletics Championships, Wightman earned a bronze in 2018 European Athletics Championships, 2018 and a silver for the 800 metres in 2022 European Athletics Championships, 2022. He won bronze medals at the Athletics at the 2018 Commonwealth Games, 2018 and Athletics at the 2022 Commonwealth Games, 2022 Athletics at the Commonwealth Games, Commonwealth Games. He holds two Scottish records (800 m and 1000 metres, 1000 m) and is a two-time British champion. Career As a junior athlete, Wightman was the 2013 European Athletics Junior Championships ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Timothy Cheruiyot
Timothy Cheruiyot (born 20 November 1995) is a Kenyan middle-distance runner specialising in the 1500 metres. He is the 2020 Tokyo Olympic silver medallist in the event and the 11th fastest athlete all time over the distance. At the World Athletics Championships, Cheruiyot won the silver medal in 2017 in London, and a gold in 2019 in Doha. He took the silver medal in his specialty event at the 2018 and 2022 Commonwealth Games, and is also a two-time African Championship silver medallist from 2016 and 2018. Cheruiyot won the 1500 m Diamond League title on four occasions: in 2017, 2018, 2019, and 2021. Personal life and career Cheruiyot is from the town of Singorwet, in Bomet County, Kenya, and lives on a farm with his family. Beginning in 2014, he began to train in the outskirts of Nairobi, via the Rongai Athletics Club, under Coach Bernard Ouma. Early Career: 2015-2018 2015 Cheruiyot's first major milestone in his career was competing on Kenya's Distance Medle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cameron Myers
Cameron Myers (born 9 June 2006) is an Australian track and field athlete. In 2023, he broke the world record for the fastest mile by a sixteen year-old, and became the second youngest person in the world to ever have run a sub-four minute mile. At the age of sixteen, he took the Australian national under-20 mile record. Myers broke Jakob Ingebrigtsen's mile, 1500m and 3000m age-group records. In January 2025, he set a new world under-20 indoor record in the mile. Early life From Canberra, Myers graduated from Lake Ginnindera College in 2024. From aged 10 he trained with Lee Bobbin. At age 14, Bobbin started training Myers with Dick Telford and his elite group including Olympic 1500-metre runner Jye Edwards. He also runs for the Bankstown Track Club in Sydney. Career 2022 Myers won the Albie Thomas 1 Mile Australian Championship on 5 December 2022, at The Crest in Sydney. 2023 Myers broke Ryan Gregson's Australian under-18 record for the 1500 metres by more than three seconds ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reynold Cheruiyot
Reynold Kipkorir Cheruiyot (born 30 July 2004) is a Kenyan runner who competes in track and field and Cross-country running, cross-country. He previously held the List of junior world records in athletics, world junior record in the mile run. Early and personal life He hails from Bomet County in Kenya. Both of his parents were athletes, but only raced in Kenya. He is not a relation of Timothy Cheruiyot but he has described him as his role model. He slowed down to allow Timothy Cheruiyot to overtake him at the finish line of the Kenyan World Championship Trials in July 2023 out of respect for him. Career In August 2022, he won gold at the 2022 World Athletics U20 Championships in Cali, Colombia, in the 2022 World Athletics U20 Championships – Men's 1500 metres, 1500m race. In January 2023, he finished second at the 2023 World Athletics Cross Country Championships in Bathurst, Australia, in the 2023 World Athletics Cross Country Championships – U20 men's race, U20 race. In Apr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cole Hocker
Cole Hocker (born June 6, 2001) is an American middle-distance running, middle- and long-distance runner who specializes in the 1500 metres, 1500 meters. He won the gold medal in the event at the Athletics at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Men's 1500 metres, 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, setting an List of Olympic records in athletics, Olympic record and an List of North, Central American and Caribbean records in athletics, area record of 3:27.65. In 2025, he ran the second-fastest 3000 metres#Indoor men, indoor 3000 metres time in history with 7:23.14. Hocker holds multiple national titles in annual competitions organized by USA Track & Field, including four titles in the 1500 m and one title in the 3000 metres, 3000 meters. In March 2024, he won a silver medal in the 1500 m at the 2024 USA Indoor Track and Field Championships, 2024 World Athletics Indoor Championships in Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland. Hocker also placed sixth in the 1500 m at the Athletics at the 2020 Summer Olym ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
