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Isaiah Koech storms to amazing 5000m time in Düsseldorf - IAAFPublished by
Düsseldorf, Germany - There were a number of big name signings competing at the PSD Bank Meeting in Düsseldorf on Friday evening (11). However, it was a little known Kenyan who produced the most remarkable performance of the night in front of a sell-out crowd of 2000 spectators in the Arena-Sportpark. 17-year-old Isaiah Koech (19/12/1993) took the 5000m race in a world leading time of 12:53.29. This is the fastest 5000m indoor time ever run by a junior by far, but there are no official world junior records indoors. But on the senior all-time indoor lists he moved up to fourth spot. Only three of the most prominent long distance runners in history have run faster indoors: Besides the current World record holder Kenenisa Bekele these are Haile Gebrselassie (Ethiopia/12:50.38) and Daniel Komen (Kenya/12:51.48). Isaiah Koech clocked the fourth fastest time ever. Kipchoge in second place, set a great personal best of 12:55.72, which now makes him the fifth fastest runner indoors. World lead equalled by a surprised Collins Svoboda victorious; Liu Xiang happy “Taking into account my injury problems I am happy with my performance,” said Liu Xiang. Looking ahead towards the summer and the World Championships he said: “It is my aim to qualify for the final and then we will see what happens – anything can happen in such a final. But it will be tough to reach this.” Bartels improves his meet record with 20.91m Regarding the European Championships in Paris next month Bartels said: “Of course it was a good result for me today, but there will be others coming through in the next few weeks. And it is not that easy to reproduce such a performance in an international championship, where the atmosphere and the set-up is so much different. I am fully concentrating on the indoor season now. And usually when I had good results indoors I was also good in the summer.” Mohr, meet record; Wells, improves world lead In the 60m Hurdles Kellie Wells (USA) showed her best race in the first round. Flying over the hurdles she improved her own world lead to 7.84 seconds, which was also a new meeting record. In the final she then lost her rhythm at the final hurdle. But Wells still won with 7.89 seconds from Danielle Carruthers (USA/7.92). Demut improves her world lead Click here for RESULTS More news
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