Lamecha Girma smashes 25-year 3,000m indoor world record
Ethiopia’s Lamecha Girma shattered the 25-year-old world 3,000m indoor record on Wednesday by more than one second at the Lieven meeting as Armand ‘Mondo’ Duplantis won his third successive pole vault event. Girma clocked 7min 23.81sec to better the old mark of 7min 24.90sec set by Kenya’s Daniel Komen at Budapest in February 1998. The Ethiopian raced alone over the …