The lads’s 5,000m on the Oslo Diamond League on Thursday had the firepower to be one thing particular with the likes of world report holder Joshua Cheptegei of Uganda and his compatriot, Jacob Kiplimo. Nonetheless, it wasn’t the seemingly candidates who stole the present. As an alternative, 30-year-old Ethiopian Hagos Gebrhiwet clocked the second-fastest 5K time in historical past–12:36.73 to interrupt the Ethiopian nationwide report.
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🇪🇹’s Hagos Gebrhiwet runs 12:36.73 to rule the 5000m on the @BislettGames 👀
Second quickest 5000m in historical past ✅
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Gebrhiwet’s time wasn’t solely a nationwide report, however an Oslo Bislett Video games meet report, a private finest and the quickest time on the earth this 12 months. He took practically six seconds off his earlier better of 12:42.18 and broke Kenenisa Bekele’s Ethiopian report mark of 12:37.35, set on Might 31, 2004.
Chatting with the media post-race, Gebrhiwet mentioned he hopes this end result will assist him be chosen for the Ethiopian workforce for the ten,000m occasion on the 2024 Olympics.
The one man who has ever run sooner than Gebrhiwet is Cheptegei, who completed ninth in Thursday’s race, with a time of 12:51.94.
Gebrhiwet’s compatriot, Yomif Kejelcha, completed two seconds behind him, with a private better of 12:38.95. The reigning world XC champion, Kiplimo, completed third, additionally with a private finest, of 12:40.96. There have been 13 private bests set among the many 19 athletes within the discipline, together with six nationwide data.
Gebrhiwet first broke 13 minutes for the 5K 12 years in the past on the identical monitor in Oslo. He’s the reigning world champion for the 5K distance on the highway, and gained an Olympic bronze medal for the gap on the Rio Olympics in 2016.
Jakob Ingebrigtsen dives to 1,500m
Hundreds of keen Norwegian followers got here to see their nation’s monitor star, Jakob Ingebrigtsen, at Bislett Stadium, and he delivered. The 23-year-old dove throughout the end line to win the boys’s 1,500m by three one-hundredths of a second over a surging Timothy Cheruiyot of Kenya, in a world-leading time of three:29.74. This was Ingebrigtsen’s first 1,500m race of the 2024 season.
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Ingebrigtsen will now return to coaching as he begins to organize for the 2024 European Championships in Rome in two weeks.
No Canadian athletes have been competing at Oslo Diamond League, however there will likely be 4 in motion on the Stockholm Diamond League on Sunday, June 2: Charles Philibert-Thiboutot (males’s 1,500m), Jean-Simon Desgagnés (3,000m SC) and Sarah Mitton (shot put).
