Ethiopia’s Hagos Gebrhiwet runs second-fastest 5K in historic previous at Oslo Diamond League
The lads’s 5,000m on the Oslo Diamond League on Thursday had the firepower to be one factor explicit with the likes of world report holder Joshua Cheptegei of Uganda and his compatriot, Jacob Kiplimo. However, it wasn’t the most likely candidates who stole the current. As an alternative, 30-year-old Ethiopian Hagos Gebrhiwet clocked the second-fastest 5K time in historic previous–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 historic previous ✅
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Gebrhiwet’s time wasn’t solely a nationwide report, nonetheless an Oslo Bislett Video video games meet report, a personal biggest and the quickest time on the planet this 12 months. He took virtually six seconds off his earlier higher of 12:42.18 and broke Kenenisa Bekele’s Ethiopian report mark of 12:37.35, set on May 31, 2004.
Speaking to the media post-race, Gebrhiwet talked about he hopes this consequence will help him be chosen for the Ethiopian workforce for the ten,000m event on the 2024 Olympics.
The one man who has ever run ahead of Gebrhiwet is Cheptegei, who accomplished ninth in Thursday’s race, with a time of 12:51.94.
Gebrhiwet’s compatriot, Yomif Kejelcha, accomplished two seconds behind him, with a personal higher of 12:38.95. The reigning world XC champion, Kiplimo, accomplished third, moreover with a personal biggest, of 12:40.96. There have been 13 personal bests set among the many many 19 athletes throughout the space, along with six nationwide knowledge.
Gebrhiwet first broke 13 minutes for the 5K 12 years up to now on the an identical monitor in Oslo. He’s the reigning world champion for the 5K distance on the freeway, and gained an Olympic bronze medal for the hole on the Rio Olympics in 2016.
Jakob Ingebrigtsen dives to 1,500m
1000’s of eager Norwegian followers acquired right here to see their nation’s monitor star, Jakob Ingebrigtsen, at Bislett Stadium, and he delivered. The 23-year-old dove all through the tip 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 teaching as he begins to rearrange for the 2024 European Championships in Rome in two weeks.
No Canadian athletes have been competing at Oslo Diamond League, nonetheless there could be 4 in movement 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).
