Norwegian runner Jakob Ingebrigtsen set a world record and Canada’s Marco Arop ran to a meeting record on Sunday at a Diamond League event in Silesia, Poland.
Ingebrigtsen won the men’s 3,000 metres event in a world-record time of seven minutes 17.55 seconds.
The time eclipses the previous mark of 7:20.67, set by Kenya’s Daniel Komen in 1996.
Ingebrigtsen’s previous personal best in the distance was 7:23.63.
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Jakob Ingebrigtsen ran a time of 7:17.55 in the men’s 3000 metres to smash the world record in Poland.
Arop, of Edmonton, rushed out to the front of the men’s 800m race and comfortably won the event in a meet-record time of 1:41.86.
The 25-year-old reigning world champion held off the reigning Olympic champion, Kenya’s Emmanuel Wanyonyi, who finished in 1:43.23 for a second-place result.
The two runners had just battled in an 800m race on Thursday at the Diamond League stop in Lausanne. Wanyonyi came out on top in Switzerland with a world-leading, and personal-best time of 1:41.11 at the non-official Diamond League event.
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