Daniel Komen's 29-year record broken in Stockholm
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Reading Time: 1min | Sun. 15.06.25. | 22:29
Almgren set an Area Record with his solo run to victory
Hometown runner Andreas Almgren set a new European record of 12:44.27 to win the men’s 5000m at the Stockholm Diamond League (DL, in front of a raucous home crowd on Sunday, 15 June.
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His incredible run obliterated the 29-year-old meeting record of 12:51.60 set by Kenya’s Daniel Komen.
The crowd were already at fever pitch and when Mondo Duplantis set a new world record of 6.28m in the midst of Almgren’s race, it sent the excitement levels into the stratosphere.
Feeding off the buoyant crowd, Almren set a relentless pace. He led the field through 3000m at 7:42.9.
It was a pace even Olympic 1500m champion Cole Hocker could not live with.
And after another brutal kilometre, the Swede had only Ethiopian Kuma Girma for company.
But with 700 metres to go, Almgren went up another gear and made a long victorious run for home.
In January, Almgren set a European 10km road record of 26.53 in Valencia and he added another continental best, erasing the two-year-old record of 12:45:01 which was held by Spain’s Mohamed Katir.
Girma finished second in 12:57.46 with Australia’s Ky Robinson third in 12:58.38.
Kenya's Denis Kipkoech and compatriot Andrew Alamisi finished in sixth and 11th places respectively, having clocked 13:07.02 and 13:29.07.
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