NEW YORK - Ethiopia's Yomif Kejelcha, twice a world indoor 3,000m champion, missed the world indoor mile record by one-hundredth of a second on Saturday in a dominating victory at the Millrose Games. But Kejelcha fell agonizingly short of his target, the mile indoor world record of 3:48.45 set by Morocco's Hicham El Guerrouj on February 12, 1997 at the Flanders indoor meet in Ghent, Belgium. Saruni's effort was second only to the indoor world-record time of 1:42.67 set by Denmark's Wilson Kipketer in Paris at the 1997 World Indoor Championships. Konstanze Klosterhalfen won the women's mile in a German record and season world best 4:19.98 with American Colleen Quigley second in 4:22.86. American Vashti Cunningham, the 2016 world indoor high jump champion, defended her Millrose crown by clearing 1.95m.

Source: Bangkok Post February 10, 2019 00:45 UTC