On Sunday night on the Boris Hanžeković Memorial meet in Zagreb, Croatia, Canadian Olympic 800m silver medalist Marco Arop narrowly missed the world report for 1,000 metres. His profitable time of two:13.13 set a brand new Canadian and North American report and is the fifth-fastest time in historical past.
Space report 💥
🇨🇦’s Marco Arop misses out on a world report try however units a brand new space report and world lead of two:13.13 within the males’s 1000m at @ZagrebMeeting 👏#ContinentalTourGold pic.twitter.com/g2mpfPD3Dk
— World Athletics (@WorldAthletics) September 8, 2024
Arop was seeking to break Noah Ngeny of Kenya’s world report of two:11.92 from 1999, however he confronted challenges early on. His tall body struggled with the “waterfall” begin, and he lagged behind the tempo within the opening 400m, leaving him unable to completely catch as much as the tempo lights. Nonetheless, Arop’s efficiency nonetheless shattered the earlier North American report of two:13.90 set by American Rick Wohlhuter 50 years in the past.
The 25-year-old Edmonton native improved upon his earlier private finest of two:14.35. This was his second bid for the 1,000m world report, having fallen simply brief over the identical distance indoors this 12 months on the New Stability Indoor Grand Prix. Arop now holds the North American (space) information within the 800m and 1,000m occasions.
Subsequent up, Arop will head to the Diamond League remaining in Brussels on Sept. 13-14, the place he plans to problem the boys’s 800m world report of 1:40.91, a aim he says has been on his thoughts for a while.
Arop was one in every of three Canadian athletes competing on the Boris Hanžeković Memorial on Sunday. Olympic hammer throw champion Ethan Katzberg suffered his first lack of the season, dropping to Olympic bronze medallist Mykhaylo Kokhan, who threw a brand new private better of 81.14 to take the win. Canadian 4x100m relay gold medallist Jerome Blake completed fourth within the males’s 100m in 10.15 seconds.
