(Reuters) -American Grant Fisher smashed the world indoor 5,000 meters record at the Boston University David Hemery Valentine Invitational on Friday, just a week after setting the indoor 3,000 meters record. Fisher clocked 12 minutes 44.09 seconds, lowering the 12:49.60 mark set by Ethiopia’s Kenenisa Bekele in 2004. The 27-year-old Fisher, who won bronze in […]
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(Reuters) -American Grant Fisher smashed the world indoor 5,000 meters record at the Boston University David Hemery Valentine Invitational on Friday, just a week after setting the indoor 3,000 meters record.
Fisher clocked 12 minutes 44.09 seconds, lowering the 12:49.60 mark set by Ethiopia’s Kenenisa Bekele in 2004.
The 27-year-old Fisher, who won bronze in both the 5,000 and 10,000m at last year’s Paris Olympics, had broke the world indoor 3,000m record at the Millrose Games in New York on Saturday.
Jimmy Gressier secured second place with a time of 12:54.92, breaking the European indoor record previously held by Spain’s Alberto Garcia and also improving on his previous French national record in the event.
(Reporting by Janina Nuno Rios in Mexico City; Editing by Stephen Coates and Edwina Gibbs)