Athletics - Diamond League - Stockholm Olympic Stadium - Stockholm, Sweden - August 23, 2020. Karsten Warholm of Norway shows off the results board after winning in 400 Meters Hurdles. Christine Olsson/TT News Agency/via REUTERS
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Norwegian sprinter Karsten Warholm broke his own European record in the 400 metres hurdles at Sunday's Diamond League event in Stockholm, clocking a time of 46.87 seconds that was just 0.09 seconds off the world record that has stood for 28 years.
The 24-year-old improved his previous best in the discipline by five hundredths of a second but clipped the final hurdle as he came up short of the world record of 46.78 set by American Kevin Young at the Barcelona Olympics in August 1992.
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