Katir soars and breaks the European 3,000 meters record with a stratospheric 7:24.68

Amazing test of 3,000 meters lived in Hauts-de-France Pas-de-Calais in Lievin (France)where the Ethiopian Lamecha Girma has set a new indoor world record (7:23.81) and the Spanish Mohammed Katir set a new European record by stopping the clock in another stratospheric 7:24.68. The arrival of several more world records is expected at the fifth meeting of the year World Athletics Indoor Tour Gold and this one came in one of the last scheduled races and one of the most anticipated, the 3,000 meters, given to the entity of participating athletes.

Katir, participating in his second indoor race at the beginning of the season, started the test attentively and well positioned, exiting the first corner in sixth position, but in third place, as the three hares that escaped were ahead. to him, asked to attack all the records. The American Grant Fisher _with a personal best of 7:39.99- he also occupied the privileged positions at the start, but when the last hare was cleared the race was leading at the interval Girma and Katir, with the Ethiopian in first position and Katir in second clinging to the heel of his shoe. They ran the 1,000 in 2:28.49, the 2,000 in 4:54.38 and if they didn’t slow down the mark was sure, as usual.

Katir rose behind a Girma – runner-up in the world indoor track – that was out of reach, winning the 3,000 meters with authority and setting a record for history, a 7:23.81, new world record for the distance in indoor track, significantly improving his mark, which stood at 7:27.98. It took 25 years for Kenyan Daniel Komen’s record of 7:24.90, from February 6, 1998 in Budapest – remembered as ‘Mount Everest’ because of its size and only twice bettered outdoors – to succeed.

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Behind him, a very good Katir, who stopped the clock at 7:24.68, bettering his own mark of 7:25.29, establishing a new European record and therefore the second best mark of the year for the distance, which broke the previous European distance record held by Adel Mechaal -7:30.82 s on February 6, 2022 at New York– and setting a new distance record in Spain. Full of winners of Jean Bouin of 2021.

THE DATA

Historic world ranking 3,000 m. inside the house
7’23”81 Lamecha Girma (Eti) Lievin 2023
7’24”68 Mohamed Katir (ESP) Lievin 2023
7’24”90 Daniel Komen (Ken) Budapest 1998
7’24”98 Getnet Wale (Eti) Lievin 2021
7’26”10 Selemon Barega (Eti) Lievin 2021
Historic European ranking 3,000 m. inside the house
7’24”68 Mohamed Katir (ESP) Lievin 2023
7’30”82 Adel Mechaal (ESP) Staten Island. 2022
7’31”97 Sam Atkin (GB) Boston 2023

great harvest of Mohammed Katir which we remember renounced the European Championship inner track to Istanbul, Turkey, where it can be one of the stars of the appointment at 1,500 and at 3,000.

CLASSIFICATION

3,000 meters

1. Lamecha Girma (Eri) 7:23.81
2. Mohamed Katir (ESP) 7:24.68
3.Jacob Krop (Ken) 7:31.35
4. Birhanu Balew (Eti) 7:33.42
5. Grant Fisher (USA) 7:35.82