2023-09-11 08:48:14
The world champion of the 1,500 meters, the man who just three weeks ago in Budapest executed Jakob Ingebrigtsen in the last straight, This Sunday, Josh Kerr won the most famous road mile in the world, the one held on Fifth Avenue in New York, and at the same time another Scottish woman, Jemma Reekie, did itwhich won for the second time following winning in 2021. And it is, the organization recalls, the third consecutive year that Scotland dominates in the two categories, since Jake Wightman won the last two editions and in 2022 Laura Muir won.
Adam Hunger
Kerr won in 3:47.9, the third-fastest time in history and the fastest since 1995, with teammate George Mills in 3:49.9 and New Zealand’s Geordie Beamish third in 3:50. “It is a very different effort to run a mile down a street compared to running on a track with spikes.. It’s nice to finish the season on a high,” explained the Scot.
In the women’s race, Reekie ran two seconds faster than she did two years ago and won in 4:18.4 over Ireland’s Sarah Healey (4:20.0) and Britain’s Melissa Courtney-Bryant (4:20.6). The new world record holder, Nikki Hiltz, finished 4th in 4:20.7. “Running this mile is very special for me, it’s a great test and it’s always fun to come back,” said Reekie, 5th in the 800m at the World Championships.
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The race that began in 1981 and crosses 20 blocks along New York’s most famous street brought together more than 9,000 runners organized by the New York Road Runners, the same organization behind the city’s marathon.
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Ismael Pérez is a journalist who is an expert in athletics and Olympic sports. He got hooked on the Olympic Games in Athens 2004 and since then he has been happy following competitions from the press gallery, talking to athletes, following them on social networks and telling stories, but also going out on his bicycle or jumping at a concert.
He studied a Bachelor’s Degree in Journalism at the University of Valladolid and has a Master’s Degree in Journalism and Digital Communication at the EAE Business School in Madrid. She has lived in Turin and Rome and has covered current events of all kinds in El Norte de Castilla, El Mundo de Castilla y León, Televisión Castilla y León, Rome Reports and worked in corporate communications at Burson Cohn & Wolfe. She has also written regarding major athletics championships in Somos Olimpicos, Vavel or Foroatletismo and has spoken at the IAAF Global Running Conference in Lanzhou (China).
With a career of more than a decade in the profession, since 2019 he has been linked to Runner’s World, Men’s Health and Women’s Health in Hearst Magazines and writing regarding current events in competitive athletics, popular races, triathlon, trail running, Olympics, although sometimes also He has tried cycling, climbing, sailing, swimming, tennis, canoeing, judo, snowboarding… or anything that has a place in the Olympic Games (not the Olympics).
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