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Athletics news - Ingebrigtsen misses out on double as Spain win hat-trick of golds on closing night

ByReuters

Updated 03/03/2019 at 22:31 GMT

Norwegian teenager Jakob Ingebrigtsen missed out in the men's 1500m at the European Indoor Athletics Championships on Sunday, losing to Marcin Lewandowski.

Jakob Ingebrigtsen domina su serie del 1.500 en los Europeos de Glasgow 2019

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Elsewhere on an action-packed night, Spain won three gold medals while Milan Trajkovic claimed a first-ever gold for Cyprus at a European Indoors by winning the men's 60 metres hurdles.
Ingebrigtsen was favourite to add to the 3,000 metres he won on Saturday when he became the youngest male gold medallist in the history of the championships. The 18-year-old moved to the front with two laps to go, but defending champion Lewandowski managed to stay with him. The Pole waited for his moment, took the lead at the bell and held off his rival around the final lap, winning in 3:42.85. Jesus Gomez of Spain took the bronze.
Lewandowski's gold was one of five won by Polish athletes over the three-day championships, putting them on top of the medals table ahead of the hosts.
Cyprus's Serbian-born Trajkovic upset the field to win the 60 metres hurdles race in 7.60 seconds, one-hundredth of a second ahead of Frenchman Pascal Martinot-Lagarde. Trajkovic only put a foot wrong after the race when he slipped on the stairs as he ran to hug his girlfriend.
Hungarian Luca Kozak set a national record of 7.97 seconds in the women's 60 metres hurdles semi-final but twisted her ankle after finishing and missed the final, which was won by European champion Nadine Visser of the Netherlands.
Spain's hat-trick of golds was won by Ana Peleteiro in the women's triple jump, Jorge Urena in the men's heptathlon and Alvaro de Arriba in the men's 800 metres. Urena scored a world leading 6218 points.
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