All-Time Men’s 1500m USA Record After Cole Hocker Wins Gold At Olympics

Team USA track and field star Cole Hocker delivered one of the biggest upsets of the 2024 Paris Olympics on Aug. 6 in Stade de France as the American runner nearly broke the USA record in the men’s 1500m final. 

Facing Yared Nuguse, who had owned the 1500m Area record since June 15, 2023, Hocker moved passed Nuguse and Great Britain runner Josh Kerr and Norway’s Jakob Ingebrigtsen—the prohibitive favorites—to stun the field with second-fastest time ever by an American in the 1500m, 3:27.65, and win gold. 

Nuguse finished with bronze, making it the first time since 1912 that two American medaled in the event at the Olympics

Hocker becomes the first American to win gold since the 2016 Olympics when Matthew Centrowitz won in Rio de Janeiro. 

Hocker’s time is the world’s seventh-fastest ever. Hicham El Guerrouj still owns the world record with a time of 3:26.00 that he set in 1998. 

Here’s a list of the men’s 1500m all-time American performance list.

Men’s 1500m USA Record Holders

• 3:27.40    Bernard Lagat (Nike) 8/25/05
• 3:27.65 Cole Hocker (Nike) 8/6/24
• 3:27.80 Yared Nuguse (On AC) 8/6/24
• 3:29.45    Hobbs Kessler (adidas)  8/6/24
• 3:29.77 Sydney Maree (Puma) 8/25/85
• 3:30.40 Matthew Centrowitz (Nike) 7/17/15
• 3:30.54 Alan Webb (Nike) 7/06/07
• 3:30.90 Andrew Wheating (Oregon) 7/22/10
• 3:30.98 Leo Manzano (Hoka) 7/18/14
• 3:31.01 Jim Spivey (Athletics West) 8/28/88

Here’s a list of the men’s 1500m all-time world performance list.

Men’s 1500m World Record Holders

• 3:26.00 Hicham El Guerrouj (MAR) 7/14/98
• 3:26.34 Bernard Lagat (KEN) 8/24/01
• 3:26.69 Asbel Kiprop (KEN) 7/17/15
• 3:26.73 Jakob Ingebrigtsen (NOR) 7/12/24
• 3:27.37 Noureddine Morceli (ALG) 7/12/95
• 3:27.64 Silas Kiplagat (KEN) 7/18/14
• 3:27.65 Cole Hocker (USA) 8/6/24
• 3:27.79 Josh Kerr (GBR) 8/6/24
• 3:27.80 Yared Nuguse (USA) 8/6/24
• 3:28.12 Noah Ngeny (KEN) 8/11/00

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