Teenage Biwott beats Olympic champion Makhloufi

Kenya’s Robert Biwott won a four-man battle to beat Algeria’s Olympic 1500m champion Taoufik Makhloufi in 1:44.69, a personal best for the 18-year-old by more than two seconds. Makhloufi spread his arms wide a metre from the line thinking he’d done enough to win after a charge down the final straight but Biwott sneaked past on the outside to win by four hundredths. Andre Oliver of South Africa was third in 1:44.85 with Jeremiah Mutai of Kenya fourth in the same time. Poland’s Marcin Lewandowski, the 2010 European champion, was out of it in fifth.