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Canada’s Kieran Lumb runs world lead in the mile

Lumb ran a personal best time of 3:55.53, only one second off the Canadian indoor record

Vancouver’s Kieran Lumb opened up his 2022 indoor track season in incredible fashion, running a world-leading 3:55.53 in the mile at the Dempsey Indoor meet at the University of Washington. His indoor mile time was five-second PR on his previous best of 4:00.03, which is only a second off Nathan Brannen’s Canadian indoor mile record of 3:54.32.

Lumb, a UBC transfer who won the NCAA West Region cross country championship in the fall, took control of the race early and never looked back, running the third-fastest mile time in Washington Husky history and the ninth-fastest mile in Dempsey Indoor history.

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Growing up, Lumb was a nationally-ranked junior cross-country skier until his Grade 12 year. In his first year at UBC in 2016, he began his running career on the trails and the track.

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In 2020, Lumb set the Canadian U23 indoor 3,000-meters record in 7:45.50 at the BU David Hemery Valentine Invitational. He has represented Canada on multiple occasions at the junior level and he will be a name to watch in the 1,500m to 5,000m this year in the NCAA.

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