American clocks 12:44.09 at Boston College to take 5 seconds off Kenenisa Bekele’s long-standing mark
Grant Fisher was solely six years outdated when Kenenisa Bekele set the long-standing world indoor file of 12:49.60 for 5000m in Birmingham in 2004. However on the David Hemery Valentine Invitational at Boston College on Friday (Feb 14) the American smashed the mark with 12:44.09.
It was his second world file in lower than every week after his 3000m mark of seven:22.91 on the Millrose Video games six days earlier. His time in Boston was additionally faster than his personal outside American 5000m file of 12:46.96.
The 27-year-old received Olympic bronze medals at 5000m and 10,000m in Paris final 12 months however has moved on to a brand new degree in 2025.
On the Millrose Video games he out-kicked Olympic 1500m champion Cole Hocker as each males went inside Lamecha Girma’s world file of seven:23.81 and now in Boston he has taken 5 seconds off a world file which was held by the all-time nice Bekele.
Racing on a Boston monitor that has earned a fame as a hotbed for quick occasions, Fisher clocked kilometre splits of two:31, 2:34, 2:33, 2:33, 2:31 on his solution to the file.
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