Athletics-American Fisher breaks 5,000-meter indoor world record in Boston


FILE PHOTO: Paris 2024 Olympics - Athletics - Men's 5000m Final - Stade de France, Saint-Denis, France - August 10, 2024. Grant Fisher of United States reacts. REUTERS/Aleksandra Szmigiel/File Photo

(Reuters) -American Grant Fisher smashed the world indoor 5,000 meters record at the Boston University David Hemery Valentine Invitational on Friday, just a week after setting the indoor 3,000 meters record.

Fisher clocked 12 minutes 44.09 seconds, lowering the 12:49.60 mark set by Ethiopia's Kenenisa Bekele in 2004.

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