Athletics-American Fisher breaks 5,000-meter indoor world record in Boston


FILE PHOTO Paris 2024 Olympics - Athletics - Mens 5000m Final - Stade de France Saint-Denis France - August 10 2024.  Grant Fisher of United States reacts. REUTERSAleksandra SzmigielFile Photo

FILE PHOTO: Paris 2024 Olympics - Athletics - Men's 5000m Final - Stade de France, Saint-Denis, France - August 10, 2024. Grant Fisher of United States reacts. REUTERS/Aleksandra Szmigiel/File Photo

(Reuters) -American Grant Fisher smashed the world indoor 5,000 meters record at the Boston University David Hemery Valentine Invitational on Friday, just a week after setting the indoor 3,000 meters record.

Fisher clocked 12 minutes 44.09 seconds, lowering the 12:49.60 mark set by Ethiopia's Kenenisa Bekele in 2004.

The 27-year-old Fisher, who won bronze in both the 5,000 and 10,000m at last year's Paris Olympics, had broke the world indoor 3,000m record at the Millrose Games in New York on Saturday.

Jimmy Gressier secured second place with a time of 12:54.92, breaking the European indoor record previously held by Spain's Alberto Garcia and also improving on his previous French national record in the event.

(Reporting by Janina Nuno Rios in Mexico City; Editing by Stephen Coates and Edwina Gibbs)

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