FILE PHOTO: Athletics – Diamond League – Rome – Stadio Olimpico, Rome, Italy – September 17, 2020 Norway’s Karsten Warholm goes on to win the men’s 400m hurdles REUTERS/Alberto Lingria
July 1, 2021
(Reuters) -Norway’s Karsten Warholm broke Kevin Young’s 29-year-old 400m hurdles world record when he completed the race in 46.70 seconds in front of his home fans at the Diamond League meeting in Oslo on Thursday.
Warholm beat 1992 Olympic champion Young’s mark of 46.78secs, which was set four years before the Norwegian was born and was the longest-standing record in men’s track.
Twice world champion Warholm raced to an early lead and never let up as he was roared on all the way to the finishing line, which he crossed ahead of 2019 Pan American Games champion Alison dos Santos by more than six tenths of a second.
“I knew that I had a fast time in my body,” said Warholm. “It might take another world record to win the Olympics.”
(Reporting by Amy Tennery, editing by Ed Osmond and Pritha Sarkar)
Source: One America News Network
