Uganda’s world record holder Joshua Cheptegei beat the Ethiopian rivals to add a first Olympic 10,000 metres gold medal to his three world titles over the distance. Cheptegei won from the front in an Olympic record 26 minutes 43.14 seconds, after getting 5,000m gold and 10,000m silver at Tokyo 2020. Berihu Aregawi saved face for Ethiopia with a late surge for silver, three-tenth adrift. Grant Fisher took bronze two-hundredths back, a first medal for the United States in 60 years since Billy Mills’ 1964 gold. Tokyo 2020 winner Selemon Barega of Ethiopia had to settle for seventh.