Neil in motion within the heats on Thursday (photograph by way of Eu Athletics)
Neil Gourley needed to accept fourth position within the Eu Indoors 2025 on Friday night time in Apeldoorn.
Jakob Ingebrigtsen used to be scorching favorite for gold and duly delivered in that Males’s 1500m ultimate.
French athlete Azeddine Habz and Portugal’s Isaac Nader led Gourley on the bell and, whilst the Scot did problem till the last levels, the duo had sufficient to assert the silver and bronze medals respectively.
Neil have been hoping to copy his podium position from those championships two years in the past – he used to be silver medallist to Ingebrigtsen in Istanbul in 2023.
The Scot’s run used to be disrupted mid-race by means of a collision which noticed German athlete, Robert Farken, drop out DNF and that appeared to impact Neil’s end. His time used to be 3:38.29 with Jakob profitable in 3:36.56.
‘I’m a little battered however tremendous,’ mentioned Neil, candid as ever when assessing his races.
‘Sometimes you make your own luck in races, and I maybe didn’t put myself in the most productive spot to care for the entire carnage . . . such is the development. I’ll put myself in higher positions someday that one I simply were given a little improper nowadays.
‘I was happy with how I felt early on in the race I was full of running, ready to move when the race kicked off. Unfortunately when it kicked off, everybody was diving on top of each other and I was caught in that.’
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