borkenaMarch 3,2019Ethiopian athlete Yomif Kejelcha broke world indoor record for the mile In Boston,Massachusetts, on Sunday, reported International Association of Athletics Federation (IAAF)He clocked 3:47.01. The full IAAF report on Yomif Kejelcha’s new indoor world record in Mile reads as follows :It was third time lucky for the 21-year-old, having narrowly missed out on breaking world indoor records in his two previous races. He finished just 0.01 outside the world indoor mile record at the Millrose Games, clocking 3:48.46, and was then beaten to the world indoor 1500m record in Birmingham one week later when compatriot Samuel Tefera won in 3:31.04. Kejelcha dug in deep and crossed the line in 3:47.01, taking 1.44 seconds off the previous world indoor record set by Hicham El Guerrouj in 1997. USA’s Johnny Gregorek finished second in 3:49.98, moving to sixth on the world indoor all-time list, just 0.09 shy of Bernard Lagat’s North American indoor record.

Source: Ethiopian News March 03, 2019 22:30 UTC