“Tin hot: Promising Face of America”Notre Dame grad Yared Nuguse wins bronze medal in men’s 1500m final

Bronze medalist Yared Nuguse, of the United States, poses on the podium after the men’s 1500-meter final 2024 Summer Olympics, Tuesday, Aug. 6, 2024, in Saint-Denis, France. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)(Matthias Schrader | Associated Press)

By WNDU.com

Published: Aug. 7, 2024 at 2:14 AM GMT+7|Updated: 12 hours ago

PARIS (WNDU) – Notre Dame alum Yared Nuguse has won a bronze medal for Team USA at the Paris Olympics.

Nuguse finished third in the men’s 1500m final on Tuesday with a time of 3:27.80. He was less than a hundredth of a second behind silver medalist Josh Kerr of Great Britain (3:27.79) and less than a second behind fellow American and gold medalist Cole Hocker of Indianapolis (3:27.65), who set a new Olympic record.

It’s the first time Team USA had had two medalists in the men’s 1500m in 112 years.

Nuguse’s bronze is the seventh medal at the Paris Olympics with Fighting Irish ties. Here’s a list of the other Notre Dame medalists at the games so far:

Lee Kiefer (USA, Fencing): 2 medals (Gold: women’s foil individual, Gold: women’s foil team)
Chris Guiliano (USA, Swimming): 2 medals (Gold: 4×100 free relay, Silver: 4×200 freestyle relay)
Nick Itkin (USA, Fencing): 1 medal (Bronze: men’s foil individual)
Eszter Muhari (Hungary, Fencing): 1 medal (Bronze: women’s epee individual)

According to our reporting partners at the South Bend Tribune, Nuguse is a 2019 NCAA champion and national record-holder for Notre Dame in the 1,500 meters.