On Friday on the Rome Diamond League meet in Italy, Canada’s Moh Ahmed completed 7th within the males’s 5,000m with a time of 12:54.90, assembly the 2025 Global Championship same old for the development. This marks the 9th time in Ahmed’s occupation that he has run beneath 13 mins for five,000m.
This success comes 5 days after he set a brand new Canadian document within the males’s 3,000m on the Silesia Diamond League in Poland, clocking 7:31.96. Within the males’s 5,000m race in Rome, the sphere went out at a tempo geared toward Joshua Cheptegei’s international document of 12:35.36 during the first 2,000m, however heat prerequisites took a toll at the runners, slowing the tempo across the 3,000m mark.
The qualifying window for the 2025 Global Championships in Tokyo opened on Aug. 1, simply earlier than the Paris Olympics, the place Ahmed secured the boys’s 10,000m same old together with his fourth-place end (in 26:44.79); he overlooked the 5,000m same old on the Olympics because of a fall within the qualifying spherical, which saved him out of the overall. The qualifying same old for the boys’s 5,000m tournament is 13 mins and one 2nd, 4 seconds sooner than it used to be for the Paris Olympics.
Ahmed is one in every of best two Canadian athletes to have damaged the 13-minute barrier within the males’s 5,000m; the opposite is Justyn Knight. The 33-year-old from St. Catharines, Ont., has accomplished this feat 9 instances in his occupation.
Ethiopia’s Hagos Gebrhiwet gained the boys’s 5,000m race in Rome with a time of 12:51.07, whilst his compatriots Yomif Kejelcha and Selemon Barega took 2nd and 1/3 position, respectively.
Canada’s Alysha Newman 1/3 in pole vault
Alysha Newman of London, Ont., adopted up her bronze-medal-winning efficiency in Paris with any other third-place end on the Rome Diamond League within the ladies’s pole vault. Newman cleared her first 3 heights simply, however didn’t transparent her 3 makes an attempt at 4.83 metres. The Olympic champion from Australia, Nina Kennedy, gained the development along with her 4.83m clearance on countback.
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