Norwegian runner clocks blistering 3:29.63 en path to a three:45.14 mile in Lievin
Jakob Ingebrigtsen appeared filled with self assurance getting into the Global Indoor Excursion Gold assembly in Lievin on Thursday (Feb 13). What was once the purpose of racing, he steered expectantly, if he didn’t assault the sector listing?
True to his phrase he beat no longer one however two international data – clocking 3:45.14 within the mile and surpassing his personal international 1500m listing at the manner with 3:29.63.
It way Yared Nuguse’s international mile listing of three:46.63 on the Millrose Video games has survived most effective 5 days.
Ingebrigtsen handed 400m in 56.39, 800m in 1:52.55 and 1200m in 2:48.39 on his technique to environment new figures, together with his 1500m break up beating the three:30.60 international listing which he set in Lievin in 2022.
“It feels amazing. This is what happens in Lievin,” he mentioned. “I’m a very happy man. You have to push all the time and focus for the whole race. It’s tough but it’s worth it when you run a time like that.”
Such was once the standard of Ingebrigtsen’s time, most effective 5 males, together with himself and international record-holder Hicham El Guerrouj, have run quicker for the mile outdoor.
Runner-up on Thursday night time, Stefan Nillessen ran a Dutch listing of three:52.70 whilst Cathal Doyle of Eire was once 3rd in 3:53.18.
It units the scene for an intriguing 12 months. On this shape for the mile, how briskly can he run indoors over 3000m following Grant Fisher’s international listing final weekend of seven:22.91. Will El Guerrouj’s long-standing outside mile listing of three:43.13 fall this 12 months too. Can the Norwegian out-run the kickers to win the sector 1500m identify in Tokyo this summer season?
Freweyni Hailu leads Gudaf Tsegay (Getty)
In other places, Freweyni Hailu went No.3 at the international all-time girls’s 3000m scores with a world-leading mark of 8:19.98 as fellow Ethiopian Gudaf Tsegay ran 8:25.12 in 2d.
Birke Haylom of Ethiopia was once 3rd with 8:25.37 and Nadia Battocletti ran an Italian listing of 8:30.82 in fourth.
Lieke Klaver of the Netherlands gained the ladies’s 400m in a global lead of fifty.76.
Previous within the programme, Leonardo Fabbri of Italy gained the boys’s shot with a global main mark of 21.95m.
Tsige Duguma of Ethiopia gained the ladies’s 800m in 1:59.02 with Britain’s Jemma Reekie 3rd in 2:00.21.
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