Athletics-Ingebrigtsen smashes 3,000m world record, Duplantis soars to new pole vault mark

Athletics - Diamond League - Silesia - Silesian Stadium, Chorzow, Poland - August 25, 2024 Norway's Jakob Ingebrigtsen crosses the line and breaks the world record to win the men's 3000m steeplechase REUTERS/Aleksandra Szmigiel

(Reuters) -Norwegian Jakob Ingebrigtsen shattered the long-standing 3,000 metres world record by more than three seconds while Sweden's Mondo Duplantis broke his own pole vault world record by clearing 6.26m at the Silesia Diamond League meeting on Sunday.

Ingebrigtsen finished in a time of seven minutes 17.55 seconds, erasing the record set by Kenya's Daniel Komen in 1996 when he ran 7:20.67. It was the longest-standing men's athletics world record in individual track events.