Vancouver’s Kieran Lumb crushes Canadian indoor 3,000m record
Lumb is the first Canadian man to run under 7:40 in the 3,000m
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Jan Figueroa
Vancouver’s Kieran Lumb has clearly recovered from his national XC championship win last weekend: the 25-year-old set a new national indoor 3,000 metre record of 7:38.39 in Boston at the BU Sharon Colyear-Danville season opener on Saturday. “Great to convert some solid fall training into a few performances these past two weekends,” Lumb wrote on Instagram.
Lumb is now the first Canadian man to run under 7:40 in the 3,000m, and took 1.7 seconds off Mohammed Ahmed’s record from 2016, finishing third behind American runners Nico Young and Brian Musau, who finished in 7:37.73 and 7:38.04 respectively.
Lumb has been bounding from strength to strength this fall. In September, he beat the 3,000-metre outdoor record twice within four days. He followed that performance with a fifth-place finish and PB in the world road mile in Riga, Latvia. Lumb represented Team Canada for the first time at a world championship in August, and did not advance out of the heats of the men’s 1,500m, but said he considered the championships “a valuable experience.”
Lumb says he hopes his consistent performances will take him to the 2024 Paris Olympics.
Kieran Lumb and Ceili McCabe win 2023 Canadian XC Championships
Americans smash NCAA 5,000 metre records
In only her third indoor race, Florida’s Parker Valby became the first woman to run a sub-15 minute 5,000m in collegiate competition. Valby bested Emily Sisson‘s 2015 record of 15:12.22 by speeding to 14:56.11 in Boston on Saturday, just two weeks after being crowned NCAA XC champion.
Valby was also the 2023 NCAA outdoor 5,000m champion, and in July became the first female track and field athlete to secure an NIL (Name, Image, and Likeness) deal with Nike.
𝐍𝐄𝐖 𝐍𝐂𝐀𝐀 𝐑𝐄𝐂𝐎𝐑𝐃 ‼️@parker_valby sets new indoor NCAA record in the 5000m and becomes the first woman to EVER break 15 minutes in the event during collegiate competition.#GoGators 🐊 pic.twitter.com/5iSeIicG4V
— Gators Track and Field & Cross Country (@GatorsTF) December 2, 2023
It has been a great season for top XC athletes: the men’s NCAA winner, Graham Blanks, also snagged a remarkable 5,000 metre record in Boston, running 13:03:78, besting the previous NCAA indoor record of 13:08.28 set by Lawi Lalang in 2012, and sneaking under the 2024 Olympic qualifying standard of 13:05.
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