Diamond League: Religion Kipyegon units 5,000m world report as Keely Hodgkinson posts British 800m finest | Athletics Information

Kenya’s Religion Kipyegon shattered the world report within the ladies’s 5,000metres on the Paris Diamond League assembly on Friday in her first race on the distance in eight years, only a week after breaking the 1,500m report

Keely Hodgkinson broke her personal British 800metres report on the Diamond League assembly in Paris

Keely Hodgkinson lowered her private finest and British report with an excellent efficiency within the 800 metres on the Diamond League assembly in Paris.

Hodgkinson adopted the pacemaker earlier than hanging for residence 300m from the road, ultimately clocking a time of 1 minute 55.77 seconds, taking 0.11secs off her earlier finest set in successful Olympic silver in Tokyo.

“I’m somewhat bit shocked that I ran so quick,” the 21-year-old mentioned. “Paris subsequent yr, I’ll undoubtedly be again. The climate was very nice, so heat. I had heard good issues concerning the monitor. With this full stadium and the nice crowd, it was wonderful. I’m so glad.

“Now the goal is to remain wholesome, we nonetheless need to see, I wish to hold working quick. The main focus is on the summer time, on Budapest [the World Championships].

“What’s subsequent with such a quick time early within the season? Properly, I have no idea. Hopefully I’ll run even quicker.”

Hodgkinson’s record-breaking run got here simply half an hour after Norway’s Jakob Ingebrigtsen smashed the two-mile world report by greater than 4 seconds. Ingebrigtsen left the sphere trailing in his wake as he recorded a time of seven minutes, 54.10 seconds.

The earlier mark was set by Daniel Komen in 1997, three years earlier than Olympic 1,500 metre champion Ingebrigtsen was born.

Data continued to tumble as Kenya’s Religion Kipyegon set a brand new world’s finest for the 5,000m, only a week after doing the identical within the 1,500m in Florence.

Kipyegon produced a blistering final lap to drag away from Ethiopia’s Letesenbet Gidey and clock a time of 14:05.20, taking virtually a second and a half off Gidey’s earlier mark.

“I didn’t take into consideration the world report. I have no idea how I made it. I simply centered on the inexperienced mild and tried to remain relaxed and benefit from the race,” Kipyegon mentioned. “…after I noticed that it was a world report I used to be so stunned.

“It was all about giving my finest. I simply wished to enhance on my private finest, the world report was not my plan.”

The best situations helped produce one other world report within the penultimate occasion of the night, Ethiopia’s Lamecha Girma taking greater than a second off the earlier mark with a time of seven:52.11 within the males’s 3,000m steeplechase.