Flick on tomorrow night’s Prefontaine Classic for the prestigious Bowerman Mile and while all the talk will be of the latest instalment of the burgeoning rivalry between Jakob Ingebrigtsen and Timothy Cheruiyot, Olympic and world champions, respectively, the man likely to spend just as much time on your TV screen is Erik Sowinski.
If you have watched any of this season’s Diamond League there is a fair chance you will have spotted the American, who has been a busy man, the pacemaker for all four men’s middle-distance races run across the first two meetings, tearing round on the front end of fields in Doha and Birmingham, having established a reputation as the sport’s latest great human metronome.
