BAt the Diamond League meeting of athletes in Brussels, two of the three announced world record attempts were successful. The four-time Olympic champion Mo Farah has set a record over an hour with 21,330 meters. In the King Baudouin Stadium in Brussels, the 37-year-old British runner improved the Ethiopian Haile Gebrselassie’s 13-year-old world record of 21,285 meters on Friday. At the same time, the Dutchman Jos Hermens lost the European record, which he had held since 1976 with 20,944 meters.
Farah celebrated the greatest successes over 5000 and 10,000 meters. In addition to four Olympic golds, he also won six world titles on these routes. Most recently he started mainly over the marathon distance. For him it was the first race of the year. “I am very happy that I broke the world record today,” said Farah. “I’m tired, it was hard work. We weren’t sure what we were doing, we just helped each other and got through. “
Sifan Hassan also improved the hourly world record for women. The Dutch ran 18,930 meters, 413 meters, more than one lap of the stadium, than the Ethiopian Dire Tuna in 2008 in Ostrava. At the same time, Hassan, world champion over 1,500 and 10,000 meters, beat the European record set by Italian Silvana Cruciata (18,084 meters) in 1981. “I’m very happy,” said the 27-year-old after her victory: “At the start, I wasn’t like that felt good, but after about half an hour every minute was easy. I never thought that I could run that far. ”Hassan also holds the world records over a mile (4: 12.33 minutes) and the 5-kilometer road race (14:44 minutes), both of which they held in Monaco in 2019 put up.
The world record attempt over 1000 meters by Kenyan Faith Kipyegon failed with 2: 29.92 minutes. So she stayed well below the mark of the Russian Swetlana Masterkova (2: 28.98 minutes), which she has held since 1996. At the Diamond League meeting in Monaco, Kipyegon only missed the world record by 17 hundredths of a second.
Indoor world record holder Armand Duplantis continued his streak of success in the pole vault with the 13th victory. The Swede won with 6.00 meters and then failed twice at the world record height of 6.15 meters.
Over 1500 meters, Wattenscheider Marius Probst reached seventh place in his first Diamond League start in 3: 38.50 minutes. European record holder Jakob Ingebrigtsen (Norway) won in 3: 30.69 minutes. Probst was the only German starter in Brussels.
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