Norwegian hurdler Karsten Warholm within whisker of world mark
23 August 2020 - 21:08
Stockholm — Norwegian athlete Karsten Warholm broke his own European record in the 400m hurdles at Sunday’s Diamond League event in Stockholm, clocking a time of 46.87 sec that was just 0.09 sec off the world record that has stood for 28 years.
The 24-year-old improved his previous best in the discipline by five hundredths of a second but clipped the final hurdle as he came up short of the world record of 46.78 set by American Kevin Young at the Barcelona Olympics in August 1992...
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