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The evening got off to a wild start when Ingebrigtsen smashed the two-mile world best \u2013 which had stood since 1997 \u2013 by four seconds. But then quickly entered the realm of the super-extraordinary as Kipyegon and Girma also smashed the women\u2019s 5,000m and men\u2019s 3,000m steeplechase records into smithereens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Between all that madness, Britain\u2019s Keely Hodgkinson also broke her own British 800m record with a display of brilliant front-running that reminded this observer of the wonder horse Frankel. Usually that would make for a decent headline. On this night, though, it became a footnote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
How to explain the quick times? Beforehand there were whispers that the track at the Stade Charlety was super fast. That clearly played a part \u2013 along with the hot weather and the wavelight technology that let the runners know they were on track.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It is also impossible to ignore how brands have been working on the latest evolutions of the super spike technology, which has changed the sport beyond recognition in recent years. That, more than anything, was surely the biggest factor – although of course track and field\u2019s history teaches us to be cautious.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The 22-year-old Ingebrigtsen was the first, running an extraordinary 7:54.10 over two miles to break Daniel Komen\u2019s old world best. Having run the first mile in 3:58.9, he then slowly increased the pace to finish his second mile in 3:55.2. Two miles is not an official world record distance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Asked whether he was surprised to break the world best by so much, Ingebrigtsen shook his head. \u201cYes, and no,\u201d he said. \u201cOf course, I obviously know what I\u2019m capable of. But it\u2019s pretty surreal because, as everybody knows, it\u2019s a good record. A lot of people have tried.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Faith Kipyegon looks stunned after seeing her world record breaking time in the 5,000m. Photograph: Jeff Pachoud\/AFP\/Getty Images<\/p>\n\n\n\n That was impressive enough, but it may have even been surpassed by the Kenyan Kipyegon. Last week she had broken the 1500m world record and came to Paris promising she just wanted to give the 5,000m a go, having not run it for eight years. She did all that and more as she went head to head with the former world recordholder Letesenbet Gidey to win in 14:05.20 \u2013 to beat Gidey\u2019s old best by 1.52 seconds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI don\u2019t know how to express it,\u201d said Kipyegon. \u201cIt\u2019s like I am dreaming. I am so happy and emotional right now. I just wanted to improve on my PB, the world record was not my plan. I just ran after Gidey.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n But the record breaking wasn\u2019t over yet. For in the penultimate race of the night the Ethiopian Girma produced another impressive display of front-running to break the steeplechase world record by 1.52 seconds by coming home in 7:52.11.<\/p>\n\n\n\n British eyes will have rightly looked towards Hodgkinson, who had promised to start her outdoor season with a bang. She certainly lived up to that promise as she took the lead just after halfway before obliterating a high class field to win in 1:55.77.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI\u2019m not that shocked,\u201d she said. I knew I was in good shape. I was asking my coach all week whether I was ready, and he said \u2018shut up, you\u2019re fine\u2019. I just wanted to be brave and attack today and I couldn\u2019t ask for anything more.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n However, it was a disappointing evening for Britain\u2019s Dina Asher-Smith, who could only finish fourth in the women\u2019s 200m in 22.57, far behind Gabrielle Thomas who won in 22.05.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Everywhere you looked on this deliriously balmy Parisian night, world records were being attacked, toppled, torn apart. Officially there was a 20,000-capacity crowd in the Stade Charl\u00e9ty. But as the fans stood and stomped and roared while Faith Kipyegon, Lamecha Girma, and Jakob Ingebrigtsen powered to three world records \u2013 although Ingebrigtsen\u2019s one is technically […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":34997,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_post_source_name":"","_post_source_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3295],"tags":[10762,5304,5307,5268,8908,9171,10739,10171,9026,10170,10172,3874,12309,1707,11973,1253,6200,11093,11457,6675,6348,9085,3954,5320,36,11771,594,11146],"class_list":["post-34996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-sport","tag-athletics","tag-attack","tag-britain","tag-british","tag-coach","tag-crowd","tag-display","tag-faith-kipyegon","tag-fans","tag-jakob-ingebrigtsen","tag-lamecha-girma","tag-lead","tag-men","tag-olympics","tag-one","tag-paris","tag-race","tag-reminded","tag-steeplechase","tag-technology","tag-us","tag-weather","tag-will","tag-women","tag-world","tag-world-athletics","tag-who","tag-world-record"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34996\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Faith](\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/c6c4fccc7025ee5864f0ef50790c6b5942bd2739\/0_199_5984_3590\/master\/5984.jpg?width=445&quality=85&dpr=1&s=none\")
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