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Updated On: 06 September, 2020 10:32 AM IST | | AFP
Four-time Olympic champ Mo Farah runs 21.330kms for farthest distance in an hour at Brussels Diamond League; Dutch runner Sifan Hassan too sizzles with new best
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Britain's Mo Farah celebrates his world record victory at the King Baudouin Stadium, Brussels, on Friday. PIC/AFP
Mo Farah blitzed to a new world record in the rarely-run one-hour event on his return to the track on Friday at an empty Brussels stadium that also saw Sifan Hassan set a new best in the women's equivalent race. Three years after having opted for road running, Farah showed no sign of cobwebs as he ran 21.330 kilometres over the 60 minutes behind closed doors at the Brussels Diamond League meet.
Farah, who won 5,000-10,000m doubles for Britain at both the London and Rio Olympics, bettered Ethiopian Haile Gebrselassie's previous best of 21.285km, set back in 2007, by 45 metres. "What an amazing way to do it and show people what is possible," said Farah. It was a formidable record: the equivalent of 52-and-a-half laps at an average of 67 seconds per lap, or 2:47min per kilometre.
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