The 25-year-old beats Kerr’s mark of seven:30.14 with huge win on the Assembly de l’Eure in Val-de-Reuil
Like Jakob Ingebrigtsen, the 3000m may nicely show to be George Mills’ candy spot proper now. After beginning out as an 800m runner, Mills has excelled at 1500m and 5000m in current seasons however on Sunday (Feb 2) in France he set a UK document of seven:27.92.
Mills’ earlier greatest was a modest 7:54.27 from final 12 months though he has run a 3:47.65 mile outside and 12:58.68 for 5000m indoors.
Like Ingebrigtsen, Mills additionally appears to thrive off comparatively excessive mileage and plenty of threshold operating. For the previous three months he’s buried himself away in South Africa to coach and is now having fun with the fruits of his labour.
In France on Sunday he loved a runaway victory to win by 12 seconds, though fellow Brit Charlie Wheeler additionally ran with a PB of seven:44.68 in fifth.
Kerr’s UK document of seven:30.14 was set in New York final 12 months en path to a world two miles greatest.
BRITISH RECORD
George Mills has simply taken aside Josh Kerr’s British 3000m document of seven:30.14 with a run of seven:27.92 at Assembly de l’Eure in Val-de-Reuil 🇬🇧
The Brit additionally goes ninth on the worldwide indoor 3000m all-time record 🌍 pic.twitter.com/JrwgO4bVXH
— AW (@AthleticsWeekly) February 2, 2025
Lamecha Girma of Ethiopia holds the world indoor 3000m document with 7:23.81 with just one European ever having run sooner than Mills indoors – the now banned Spanish athlete Mo Katir.
Mills now sits No.9 on the world all-time indoor rankings forward of the likes of Eliud Kipchoge, Kenenisa Bekele and Mo Farah.
The world outside document of seven:17.55 was set by Ingebrigtsen in Poland final 12 months.
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