At the Meeting of Liévin, the 21-year-old Olympic champion lowered the record to 3 minutes 30 seconds, exceeding that of Ethiopian Samuel Tefera.
Le Monde with AFP
He had impressed to Tokyo’s Olympic Games (OJ) this summer. The Norwegian prodigy Jakob Ingebrigtsen established, Thursday, February 17, at the Meeting of Liévin (Pas-de-Calais), the best time of all time on 1,500 m in room in 3 minutes 30 seconds 60.
The 21-year-old Olympic champion has erased Ethiopian Tablets Samuel Tefera (3 minutes 31 seconds 04 in February 2019), also aligned in this unmissable event of the winter season. Tefera watched up to the last 250 meters before Ingebrigtsen does not come off to afford the world’s first record of his career, well-helped by bright guidance at the edge of the track.
This year 2022, marked by the Worlds of Eugene (Oregon) in the United States (from July 15th to 24th), therefore starts in a whol for Ingebrigtsen who could very well threaten the next summer the outdoor time of The Moroccan legend Hicham El Guerrouj (3 minutes 26 seconds), old 24 years old.
The Norwegian, which made itself known in 2018 by producing the double 1,500 m-5,000 m at the euro of Berlin at only 18 years, thus pushes each exit the limits of its discipline. And the season is just beginning.
“I basically wanted to make the best time but beat a world record, it’s a dream that is realized so I’m very happy. This is my first so I’m going to remember for a very long time this evening and J He hopes that in the future, I will beat others, “launched Norwegian, who may be untouchable at the Indoor World Championships from March 18th to 20th in Belgrade.
No Other records in Liévin
The other chronos of the meeting were not up to the breathtaking service of Ingebrigtsen. On 60 m, the Marcell Jacobs Olympic champion logically carried it in 6 seconds 50, which left him on his hunger. “I’m a little disappointed with the Chrono, I still need more workout but I feel that I still have under the sole. I’m happy, despite all to have won,” said Italian, who Attempts to take advantage of the indoor competitions to work on action for large summer deadlines.
The 60 m hedgerows has been largely dominated by Grant Holloway. The American, big beaten from the Tokyo Olympics (2 e ) that he had, however, in the skin of 2 e history performer on 110 m hedges ( 12 seconds 81), set itself in 7 seconds 35, at six hundredths of its world record (7 seconds 29).
Holloway will be almost impossible to get to the World Indoor but French Pascal Martinot-Lagarde, 2 e in Liévin (7 seconds 46), rises in power and will be as usual a serious candidate to the podium.