In the Muller Indoor Grand Prix in Glasgow, the indoor event over the 3,000m distance reserved for men has just ended.
The victory went to Tom Bosworth (GBR) who established the new best world performance on the distance with the time of 10:30:28 (previous of Andrea Erm, GER established 2001).
Split times:
- 1000m: 3:31.54
- 2.00m: 7:03.49
- last 1.000m in 3:26.39
Second place to Callum Wilkinson (GBR) in 10:52.77 which obtains the personal best (previous 11:39.87 obtained in Sheffield, GBR on Feb. 10, 2016)
Third place to Marius Ziukas (LTU) in 10:56.30 who gets the personal best (previous 11:39.80 obtained in Vilnius, LTU on Jan. 13, 2011)
Giorgio Rubino (ITA) just returned from Albuquerque from a log stage he got the personal best with the time of 11:38.25 arriving sixth.
(cover photo by Mark Shearman - GBR)
(dal sito web della IAAF by Jon Mulkeen, IAAF)
It might be a rarely-contested event, but the world all-time list for the 3000m race walk features so many stars of the discipline that it’s clear the world best of 10:31.42 is a quality mark.
But heading into Glasgow, Britain’s Tom Bosworth believed it was also breakable.
As has now become customary in his track races, Bosworth dropped the rest of the field fairly early on in the race. He covered the first kilometre in 3:31.54 and the second in a near identical 3:31.95, putting him just outside record schedule.
But he also had two red cards going into the latter stages of the race. “That made me concentrate more,” Bosworth said afterwards. “And that helped me to go faster.”
With a final kilometre of 3:26.79, Bosworth crossed the line in 10:30.28 to take more than a second off the world best set by Germany’s Andreas Erm in 2001.
“I can’t believe it,” said Bosworth. “I’m over the moon to get a world record but I feel sick after that.”
Photo by Mark Shearman (GBR)