Ingebrigtsen and Kerr left trailing by Nuguse’s sprint in Olympic rematch

Yared Nuguse sprints past Jakob Ingebrigtsen in the last few metres of the 1500m in Zurich, with Olympic champion Cole Hocker and Josh Kerr left trailing. Photograph: Michael Buholzer/EPA

Over the past 18 months, we have become used to seeing Josh Kerr slugging it out for gold and glory in the world’s biggest 1500m races. But when the Scot squeezed hard on the trigger over the final 200m at Zurich’s Weltklasse on Thursday night he found nothing left in the barrel.

Kerr wasn’t the only one struggling to keep up with the searing pace. The Olympic champion Cole Hocker of the US was also too far back when the pacemaker Elliot Giles dropped out with 400m to go and Norway’s Jakob Ingebrigtsen kicked for home.