Live stream: new 1,500m world record-holder to face Ingebrigtsens in Dusseldorf today

In his first race as the newly-crowned world record-holder in the indoor 1,500m, Samuel Tefera of Ethiopia faces two of the celebrated Ingebrigtsen brothers (Filip and Jakob) of Norway as the IAAF World Indoor Tour holds its final races this afternoon in Dusseldorf, Germany. The IAAF will live-stream the race on its YouTube channel

Tefera shocked the running world Saturday with his victory over the favourite, Yomif Kejelcha, who was desperate to break Hicham El Guerrouj’s 22-year-old world record after missing the indoor mile record (also held by El Guerrouj) by 0.01 seconds the previous week at the Millrose Games. Kejelcha was disappointed a second time when Tefera overtook him with 200m remaining for both the victory and the record. This will be Tefera’s first race as the new world record-holder. He is 19 years old.

RELATED: Samuel Tefera breaks El Guerrouj’s 1,500m world indoor record at age 19

Jakob Ingebrigtsen made history in August 2018 as the first person ever to win both the 1,500m and the 5,000m at the European Championships. He was 17 at the time. In December he became the first man to win three U20 cross-country titles. By then, the brothers had accumulated a combined 20 European Championship medals, with each of them also having won a cross-country title.

Ingebrigtsen brothers ready for tomorrow evening's highly touted 1500m face-off with world record holder Samuel Tefera?

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Henrik Ingebrigtsen, the oldest brother, was scheduled to race also, but has decided to sit it out and continue training for the European Athletics Indoor Championships, which begin on March 1. His trainer (and father) Gjert Ingebrigtsen told Norway’s TV 2 there is “nothing wrong” with Henrik and that he is not ill, but that he’d been having trouble keeping up with his brothers in training and preferred not to race today.

The men’s 1,500m final gets underway at 2:32 p.m. ET. The link to the live stream is here. The race will also be carried by LetsRun.com. 

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