Only a month after profitable Olympic silver within the males’s 800m in Paris, Edmonton’s Marco Arop is gearing up for his subsequent problem: breaking the arena document within the 1,000m on the Boris Hanžeković Memorial meet in Zagreb this Sunday, Sept. 8.
“After some nice 800m races, I can be operating the 1,000m on the assembly in Zagreb, and I need to smash the arena document,” Arop informed International Athletics in an interview. “After that, I’m heading to Brussels to wreck the 800m international document as smartly. The document is taking place.”
Arop’s silver medal in Paris was once ancient–it was once Canada’s first medal within the match in 60 years. Now, he’s focused on a brand new milestone: surpassing the 1,000m international document of two:11.96, set through Kenya’s Noah Ngeny 25 years in the past. Despite the fact that the 1,000m isn’t a championship distance, it’s regularly contested indoors and outside, very similar to the mile.
The 25-year-old enters the meet in superb shape. He just lately set a North American 800m document of one:41.20 in Paris and adopted it up with a Diamond League victory in Silesia with a time of one:41.86 two weeks later.
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Recently, Arop is the second-fastest guy in historical past over 1,000m (indoors), with a time of two:14.74, and he holds the Canadian document for 1,000m outdoor at 2:14.35, hanging him nineteenth at the all-time record. He’ll face tricky pageant in Zagreb, together with Olympic 800m finalist Max Burgin of Nice Britain and 1,500m finalist Stefan Nillessen of the Netherlands.
Arop gained’t be the one Canadian athlete in motion on Sunday. Quebec’s Charles Philibert-Thiboutot will compete within the males’s 2,000m; Philibert-Thiboutot set a North American document of four:51.54 finally 12 months’s Brussels Diamond League, the place Norway’s Jakob Ingebrigtsen broke the arena document.
The right way to watch
The Boris Hanžeković Memorial meet, a Continental Excursion Gold Label match, will probably be broadcast reside in Canada on CBC Sports activities and CBC Gem on Sunday, Sept. 8. Protection starts at midday ET (6:00 p.m. native time).