USA's Grant Fisher breaks 5000m indoor world record in Boston

Grant Fisher crossed the finish line in 12 minutes, 44.09 seconds.

Less than a week, after he took apart the world indoor 3000m record in New York, USA’s Grant Fisher, added another world indoor record to his tally, this time over 5000m at the BU David Hemery Valentine International in Boston on 14th February, Friday.

The double Olympic bronze medallist dropped Jimmy Gressier just after the halfway point and continued to extend his lead throughout the second half. After passing 3000m in 7:39.16 – a comfortable 16 seconds outside the world indoor record of 7:22.91 he clocked last Saturday – Fisher continued to churn out sub-31-second laps.

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The American crossed the finish line in 12 minutes, 44.09 seconds, surpassing the mark set by Ethiopia’s Kenenisa Bekele on February 20, 2004, by 5.51 seconds.

After covering the final 400m in 59.36 seconds, Fisher charged through the line in 12:44.09, a five-second improvement on the previous world indoor record of 12:49.60 set by Kenenisa Bekele in 2004.

Gressier held on for second place in 12:54.92, a European indoor record and outright French record.

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