{"id":2587,"date":"2025-06-04T12:20:29","date_gmt":"2025-06-04T12:20:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stockholm.diamondleague.com\/almgren-faces-double-olympic-champions\/"},"modified":"2025-06-04T12:22:26","modified_gmt":"2025-06-04T12:22:26","slug":"almgren-faces-double-olympic-champions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stockholm.diamondleague.com\/en\/almgren-faces-double-olympic-champions\/","title":{"rendered":"Almgren faces double Olympic champions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Andreas Almgren faces highly interesting competition in the 5,000 meters at BAUHAUS-galan on June 15. Selemon Barega, the Olympic winner from Tokyo 2021, <br\/>makes a very exciting season debut on the track &#8211; and Cole Hocker \u201cthe Shocker\u201d who beat Jakob Ingebrigtsen to the Olympic gold in the 1,500 meters in Paris will also be starting. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p>Andreas Almgren, who is Sweden&#8217;s big running star with Swedish records in no less than eight (!) events, has already been confirmed to start in the 5,000 meters at BAUHAUS-galan. Now it is clear that Almgren will face high-class competition in the hunt for a new super race in front of the home crowd at Stockholm Olympic Stadium. <\/p>\n\n<p>American Cole Hocker, also known as \u201cthe Shocker\u201d, sent shockwaves through the athletics world when he sprinted home the gold medal in the 1500 metres at the <br\/>summer Olympic final in Paris \u2013 ahead of the big favourite Jakob Ingebrigtsen \u2013 in a new Olympic record: 3:27.65. This is the first time the 23-year-old has competed on Swedish soil, and he has shown that he can also run fast in the 5,000 metres. Last winter he was recorded at 12:57.82 indoors in Boston.  <\/p>\n\n<p>\u201cI have heard a lot of good things about BAUHAUS-galan and the atmosphere in Stockholm &#8211; so I am really looking forward to competing there for the first time. It will be extra fun to meet Andreas and the other strong competitors\u201d, says Hocker.<\/p>\n\n<p>Selemon Barega, the Olympic gold medalist in the 10,000 meters in Tokyo 2021 and with two World Championship medals under his belt, is making a comeback at BAUHAUS-galan \u2013 seven years after he won the 5,000 meters in 13:04.05 at the Stadium. His <br\/>personal best, 12:43.02, places him tenth all-time, and despite the time being seven <br\/>years behind him, he showed last year with 12:51.39 in Rome that he is still a world-class runner. Earlier this year, Barega made his marathon debut \u2013 and won outright in 2:05:15 in Seville.  <\/p>\n\n<p>Emil Danielsson, second all-time in Sweden at the distance, will also be starting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andreas Almgren faces highly interesting competition in the 5,000 meters at BAUHAUS-galan on...","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":2585,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"city":[],"class_list":["post-2587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stockholm-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stockholm.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stockholm.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stockholm.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stockholm.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/75"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stockholm.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2587"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stockholm.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2588,"href":"https:\/\/stockholm.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2587\/revisions\/2588"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stockholm.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stockholm.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stockholm.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stockholm.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2587"},{"taxonomy":"city","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stockholm.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/city?post=2587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}