{"id":156083,"date":"2026-08-31T07:06:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T07:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/156083\/"},"modified":"2026-08-31T07:06:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T07:06:13","slug":"myers-beats-quality-field-to-triumph-in-berlin-1500m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/156083\/","title":{"rendered":"Myers beats quality field to triumph in Berlin 1500m"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/2985180b-0451-4275-8c43-ec5bef811059.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\"\/>Australian Cam Myers has continued his strong form with a 1500m win in Berlin. (Joel Carrett\/AAP PHOTOS)<\/p>\n<p>Australian middle-distance track star Cam Myers has continued his strong form, beating a quality 1500m field in Germany.<\/p>\n<p>The Glasgow Commonwealth Games mile silver medallist won at Berlin&#8217;s annual ISTAF one-day event.<\/p>\n<p>Myers&#8217; next event will be the September 4-5 Diamond League final in Brussels.<\/p>\n<p>The 20-year-old clocked three minutes 30.96 seconds to beat top German Robert Farken, who posted 3:31.73 for second. Kenyan Danson Kiplangat was third and fellow Australian Olli Hoare took ninth in the 13-runner field.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Cameron Myers, just 3 days after his 3000m in Zurich in 7:27, takes control of the ISTAF 1500m and runs away to win in 3:30.96<\/p>\n<p>Oliver Hoare was in the mix with 200m to go and finished 9th in 3:35.96<\/p>\n<p>Next up for Myers the Diamond League final, 4th Sept. <\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udcfd\ufe0f Flotrack <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/9TI6qaN7vN\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/9TI6qaN7vN<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 TrackAthletes.au (@TrackAthletesAU) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/TrackAthletesAU\/status\/2094261805547950286?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">August 31, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The win came three days after Myers took third in the 3000m at the Zurich Welklasse event.<\/p>\n<p>Myers is the two-time defending Australian champion in the 1500. His mile duel with Scottish world record holder Josh Kerr was one of the most-anticipated events at the Glasgow Games.<\/p>\n<p>Kerr easily won, but it was the Australian&#8217;s first senior medal at a major international championship.<\/p>\n<p>Myers also won the 1500m at this year&#8217;s Prefontaine Classic in Oregon, while his season-best was a 3:28.00 to win a promotional event in Paris.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/rightsportal.copyright.com.au\/licensing\/general-enquiry\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"license-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">License this article<\/a><\/p>\n<p>      <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Australian Cam Myers has continued his strong form with a 1500m win in Berlin. (Joel Carrett\/AAP PHOTOS) Australian&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":156084,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[99],"tags":[24629,24630,225,24631,112,2574,435,190,14714,38,24632,20312,13425,20311,1161],"class_list":["post-156083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-berlin","tag-aap","tag-aapnews","tag-australia","tag-australian-news","tag-berlin","tag-breaking-news","tag-daily-news","tag-germany","tag-global-news","tag-news","tag-news-app","tag-news-headlines","tag-news-today","tag-today-news","tag-world-news"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/117188859595529916","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156083\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}