Gebrhiwet just misses world record, Ingebrigtsen dives to win 1,500

OSLO, Norway :Ethiopia's Hagos Gebrhiwet won the men's 5,000 metres in the second fastest time ever with a sizzling final lap, while Jakob Ingebrigtsen of Norway hurled himself across the finish line to win the men's 1,500m in Thursday's Oslo Diamond League meet.

The 30-year-old Gebrhiwet, whose last major global track medal was bronze at the 2016 Rio Olympics, passed team mate Yomif Kejelcha with 400m remaining to win in 12 minutes 36.73 seconds, clocking a blistering 54.99 seconds on his final lap.

"The time I achieved is very nice," said Gebrhiwet, who narrowly missed beating Ugandan Joshua Cheptegei's world record of 12:35.36.

"The conditions, the crowd was great and it was a very fast race, not easy for me but it was going very well," he added after the race at Bislett Stadium.

Ingebrigtsen, who had been beaten by British arch-rival Josh Kerr in the mile five days earlier in Eugene, lunged at the finish line to hold off hard-charging Kenyan Timothy Cheruiyot.

The photo-finish showed the Olympic champion diving to cross the line in 3:29.74, the world's fastest time this season and three-hundredths of a second quicker than Cheruiyot.

"I really do not think that it was the decision I made to dive into the finish line, because everything just happened so fast," said Ingebrigtsen, who flashed a No. 1 finger to the camera at the start line.

"I can tell you that I was getting sore in the last 50 metres, I was expecting someone to come from the outside so I was very prepared to give it 100 per cent."

Ingebrigtsen bounced back to his feet after his spectacular lunge, throwing celebratory mock punches and then challenging the meet mascot - a giant strawberry - to a short sprint race, to the delight of the crowd.

"Every day I feel