Ingebrigtsen smashes 1996 world record as Duplantis breaks his own from Paris

• Daniel Komen’s 3,000m record bettered by three seconds
• Armand Duplantis raises pole vault world record to 6.26m

Jakob Ingebrigtsen shattered the longstanding 3,000 metres world record by more than three seconds at the Silesia Diamond League meet in Chorzow, Poland, which also saw Armand Duplantis take the pole vault to new heights.

Ingebrigtsen finished in a time of 7min 17.55sec, erasing the record set by Kenya’s Daniel Komen in 1996 when he ran 7min 20.67sec in Rieti, Italy.

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