Warholm sets unofficial world record in 300m hurdles at Diamond League opener

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Xiamen (China), Apr 26: Norwegian standout Karsten Warholm improved on his unofficial world record in the 300-meter hurdles by clocking 33.05 seconds at the opening Diamond League meeting on Saturday.

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Warholm shaved 0.21 off his previous mark set in Oslo in 2021, the same year he set the 400-meter hurdles world record.

While it is not an Olympic event, 300 hurdles will soon become an official world-record discipline, World Athletics recently announced.

“I was a little bit surprised by how easy my legs were feeling off the last bend,” Warholm said. “Of course you feel it a little bit in the end, but I managed to really push in the last 45 metres. This shows that the speed is there and the speed over the hurdles is there.”

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Olympic champions Faith Kipyegon (1,000 meters), Mondo Duplantis (pole vault), Yaroslava Mahuchikh (high jump), Beatrice Chebet (5,000) and Valarie Allman (discus) also posted victories.

In the 1,000, Kipyegon clocked 2:29.21 to come within striking distance of Svetlana Masterkova’s world record of 2:28.98 set in 1996. (AP)

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