Paris Olympics 2024: Australian runner Jessica Hull wins silver in women’s 1500m final

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Paris Olympics 2024: *********** runner Jessica Hull wins silver in women’s 1500m final

*********** runner Jessica Hull has won an emotional breakthrough silver medal in the final of the women’s 1500m — the country’s first on the track in more than a decade.

Hull ran second to Kenyan legend ****** Kipyegon, who became the second athlete after Usain Bolt to twice defend a track-and-field gold medal, and ahead of Great Britain’s Georgia Bell.

The 27-year-old ran a time of 3.52:56, the second-fastest by an *********** athlete ever.

It sealed the first medal on the track for the nation since hurdles star Sally Pearson’s triumph in London, 12 years ago.

Kipyegon ran a 3:51.29, nestling herself in the breakaway group and then powering past fellow medal fancies on the final lap.

Hull settled into a position just forward of the middle of the pack in a strung-out field setting a roaring pace through the first two laps.

Then a group of eight, that also included Kipyegon emerged to take them towards the business end. The Kenyan and the *********** were virtually shoulder-to-shoulder when they took the bell.

Kipyegon pushed away with 300m to race and Hull, who kept with her until the final 100, then held off a surging field to win her silver medal.

Australia’s first-ever Olympian, Edwin Flack, and John Landy — who did it on home soil in 1956 — are the only two Australians to win gold in the 1500m.

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