the French runner Jimmy Gressier, The winner of the 5 km distance test in 2020 is one of the candidates to break the world record in the Cursa dels Nassos 2022 that will be held in the city of Barcelona on December 31.
This was confirmed today by the sports councilor of the Barcelona City Council, David Escudé, who believes that “it will be one of the editions with the best participation in history”.
The test will have two modalities, 10 km for the famous athletes and 5K for the international elite, a category in which last year two world records that still exist and are held by the Ethiopian Berihu Aregwi were broken, with 12:49 in the men’s category and Ejgayehu Taye with 14:19 in the women’s category.
Jimmy Gressier was the champion of 5 kilometers in the 2020 race with 13:39 and occupied the second position in the continental ranking of the same distance with 13:18.
This is the record Gressier intends to improve on December 31 when, accompanied by Norwegian Jakob Ingebrigsten, Olympic champion of 1,500 in Tokyo 2021 and world champion of 5,000 in 2022, his brothers Henrik and Filip and Karoline Bjerkeli Grøvdal, attempt too. to break the world record.
At just 25 years old, the Frenchman is a three-time European U-20 cross country champion (2017, 2018 and 2019). In addition, he managed to hang two golds in the 5,000 and 10,000 meters at the 2019 European Under-23 Championship, the year in which he became fourth in the world ranking of the 10-kilometer route (27:43).
After winning again with a bronze at the European Championships in Dublin 2021, where Ingebrigsten won, and fulfilling his dream of becoming an Olympian at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games (13th in the 5,000 meters), Gressier will return to the Barcelona event on 31 from December.
Source: La Verdad
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