(Reuters) – Norwegian Jakob Ingebrigtsen broke the 3,000 metres world record at the Silesia Diamond League meet on Sunday with a time of seven minutes 17.55 seconds.
Ingebrigtsen beat the long-standing record set by Kenya’s Daniel Komen in 1996 by more than three seconds.
(Reporting by Rohith Nair in Bengaluru, editing by Ed Osmond)
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