Ingebrigtsen & Duplantis break world records

Jakob Ingebrigtsen obliterated nan 28-year-old 3,000m world grounds by much than 3 seconds earlier Armand Duplantis collapsed his ain rod vault world grounds astatine nan Diamond League gathering successful Silesia.

Norway's Ingebrigtsen looked successful disbelief arsenic he crossed nan decorativeness statement successful 7 minutes 17.55 seconds, breaking nan erstwhile grounds of 7:20.67 group by Kenya's Daniel Komen successful 1996.

Komen's clip had been nan longest-standing men's athletics world grounds successful an individual way event.

In nan rod vault, Sweden's Duplantis cleared 6.26m, 1 centimetre higher than his erstwhile champion group as he won Olympic golden successful Paris earlier this month.

It is nan 3rd clip nan 24-year-old has surgery nan world grounds this season.

Ingebrigtsen, 23, said: "It feels special, amazing. I was hoping to situation nan world grounds here, but based connected my training, I tin ne'er foretell precisely what benignant of clip I americium tin of.

"I would not person imagined I could tally 7:17, though. At nan opening nan gait felt really fast, but past I started to consciousness my measurement into nan title and recovered a bully rhythm.

"Now I want to situation world records astatine each distances, but it is 1 measurement astatine a time."

Olympic 10,000m metallic medallist Berihu Aregawi was 2nd down Ingebrigtsen successful 7:21.28 - nan third-fastest clip successful history - while chap Ethiopian Yomif Kejelcha placed 3rd (7:28.44).

Earlier this week, Ingebrigtsen exacted revenge complete American Cole Hocker by winning nan 1500m astatine nan Diamond League gathering successful Lausanne.

The Norwegian mislaid his Olympic title complete nan region to Hocker astatine Paris 2024, pinch Great Britain's Josh Kerr second, but won 5,000m gold.