Norwegian runner Jakob Ingebrigtsen and Swedish pole vaulter Armand Duplantis set new world records at a Diamond League event in Chorzow, Poland on Sunday, and Canadian Marco Arop ran a meeting record.
Ingebrigtsen won the men’s 3,000-meter race in a world record time of seven minutes and 17.55 seconds.
The time beats the previous record of 7:20.67 set by Kenyan Daniel Komen in 1996.
Ingebrigtsen’s previous personal best time for this distance was 7:23.63.
WATCH | Ingebrigtsen runs into the record book:
Jakob Ingebrigtsen ran the men’s 3000 meters in Poland with a time of 7:17.55, breaking the world record.
Duplantis, who had already won the men’s pole vault competition at the Silesia Stadium with a height of six metres, set a new world record of 6.26 metres.
The 24-year-old from Louisiana, who competes for his mother’s home country of Sweden, was able to improve his world record by another centimeter.
This is the third time he has set a world record this year. He recently achieved this at the Olympic Games in Paris, when he won the gold medal with 6.25 meters.
WATCH | Duplantis sets new world record in men’s pole vault:
After breaking the world record at the Olympic Games in Paris, Armand Duplantis jumps a height of 6.26 m in the Diamond League Silesia.
Duplantis, commonly known as “Mondo,” has now broken the world record ten times in his career – each time by one centimeter.
Canadian sets competition record in men’s 800-meter race
Arop of Edmonton stormed to the top in the men’s 800-meter race, winning the race comfortably with a meet-record time of 1:41.86.
The 25-year-old reigning world champion defeated reigning Olympic champion Emmanuel Wanyonyi of Kenya, who took second place with a time of 1:43.23.
WATCH | Arop achieves victory and competition record in Silesia:
Marco Arop from Edmonton ran a time of 1:41.86 to win the men’s 800-meter race in Poland.
The two runners had just battled it out on Thursday in an 800-meter race as part of the Diamond League in Lausanne. Wanyonyi won the unofficial Diamond League event in Switzerland with a world best and personal best of 1:41.11.
