Ehab El-Sandali Runs 13:28 indoor 5,000m at season opener
This puts the Toronto native 5th on the all-time Canadian indoor list
Canada’s Ehab El-Sandali kicked off his indoor track season on a high note, running 13:28.79 over 5,000m at the Sharon Colyear-Danville Season Opener in Boston this weekend. This time was good enough for 11th place for the Iona State senior and puts him fifth all-time in Canada.
Canadian @EhabElsandali clocks a 13:28 indoors at the BUS SEASON OPENER, good for 11th place.
That run puts him 5th all-time in Canada for an indoor 5,000m.
— Stephen Andersen (@AndersenRuns) December 4, 2021
The men’s 5,000m was dominated by Australia’s Olli Hoare, who set a new Australian indoor record in 13:09.96. This time took 26 seconds off of the previous record, and 12 seconds off his outdoor personal best of 13:22.16. Hoare is only the fourth Australian to run under 13:10 for 5,000m.
El-Sandali captivated Canadian running fans in 2016 when he set a Canadian indoor U20 5,000m record in 14:18.97, only one week after winning the U20 division at the Canadian Cross Country Championships. This was an astonishing 43-second personal best for the Toronto native, and he hasn’t slowed down since. His performance in Boston this time around came only two weeks after a strong showing at the D1 NCAA Cross Country Championships, where he competed for Iona State and placed 25th in 29:25.3.
The rest of the field in the men’s 5,000m was very strong, and El-Sandali was one of 12 men to go under 13:30. He was only milliseconds behind Georgetown’s Andrew Jordan, and only six seconds separated fourth place from 12th.
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Gracelyn Larkin of Rosseau, Ont., who is a sophomore at the University of New Mexico, also ran an impressive race in the women’s 5,000m, finishing 11th in 15:41.17, and Ceili McCabe won the women’s 3,000m in a new Canadian U23 indoor record of 8:52:52.
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