Marco Arop of Edmonton received the boys’s 1,000-metre race at the World Athletics Continental Tour meet in Zagreb, Croatia, on Sunday.
The 25-year-old posted a time of two minutes 13.13 seconds to set a Canadian document in the non-Olympic distance. Arop beat his earlier mark of 2:14.35, set at the Monaco Diamond League meet in August 2022.
Kenyan-born Jonah Koech, who represents the U.S., completed 2.02 seconds behind Arop. Stefan Nillessen of the Netherlands was third.
Arop earned his first Olympic medal in Paris 2024, successful silver in the boys’s 800m occasion. He received the world championship in the space in Budapest 2023, bettering on his bronze from Eugene 2022.
Olympic silver medallist in the 800-metre Marco Arop of Edmonton ran to a 1000-metre successful time of two:13.13 at the Continental Tour occasion in Zagreb, Croatia Sunday.
In different Canadian outcomes, reigning Olympic champion Ethan Katzberg of Nanaimo, B.C., was third in the boys’s hammer throw occasion.
Mykhaylo Kokhan of Ukraine, who received bronze in Paris 2024, completed first and forward of Poland’s Paweł Fajdek.
Ethan Katzberg of Nanaimo, B.C., locations third in the boys’s hammer throw at the World Athletics Continental Tour cease in Zagreb, Croatia, with a distance of 79.04.
Jerome Blake of Kelowna, B.C. was fourth in the boys’s 100m race with a time of 10.15 seconds.
American Courtney Lindsey secured victory in 9.97 seconds forward of Ferdinand Omanyala of Kenya (10.02) and Romell Glave of the U.Okay. (10.11).
Blake was a part of the Canadian 4×100m relay group that struck gold in Paris 2024 and earned silver in Tokyo 2021.
Watch observe and area motion from the World Athletics Continental Tour cease in Zagreb, Croatia.
