by Stuart Weir
All Diamond Leagues are equal but some are more equal than others.
For people of a certain age, the Bislett Games will always conjure up pictures of the Dream Mile and Seb Coe (winner 1979), Steve Ovett (winner 1980) and Steve Cram (4 times winner). All three Brits also broke the world record in Oslo. Not that there was a British monopoly – John Walker, Steve Scott and Aspel Kiprop had their moments too. In recent years, Jakob Ingebrigtsen recorded two home victories. Then, horror of horrors, in 2023 and 2024 there was a 1500m race but no Dream Mile.
In 2025 the event was back and Isaac Nader of Portugal won in 3:48.25, a Portuguese national record of 3:48.25. He commented: “I am very happy to win so easily. It was a great race and the goal was the national record – that was the aim tonight, so job done. The Oslo track is beautiful and the people here are amazing. This is my first race of the season and next, I will go to Spain for a 800m race then to Ostrava. I have confidence that I can perform in Tokyo and I am very excited for the season ahead, this is only the beginning for me so it is very exciting – I hope to run very fast this year”.
Cameron Myers was second in 3:48.87. He said: “It was a really scrappy race and I feel I made some major mistakes and ended up in a fight for second but I will learn from that. I would have liked to have raced it on my terms but it is not always possible to do that and this is where I need to think on my feet with my tactics”.
It was a high quality race with 13 athletes (and two pacers) with everyone finishing under 3:51. There were 10 PRs and 5 NRs out of 13.
Seb Coe was in attendance – as was Usain Bolt.
