Ethiopian Kejelcha smashes world indoor mile record

ByReuters

Published 03/03/2019 at 21:47 GMT

March 3 (Reuters) - Ethiopian Yomif Kejelcha broke the world indoor mile record when he clocked three minutes 47.01 seconds during an invitational meet in Boston on Sunday.

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The 21-year-old smashed the 22-year-old record of 3:48.45 set by Morocco's Hicham El Guerrouj in 1997.

Kejelcha had come within one hundredth of a second of the record when he clocked 3:48.46 at the Millrose Games in New York last month. (Reporting by Gene Cherry in Raleigh, North Carolina; Editing by Ken Ferris)

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