British runner clocks 9:07.39 to win by 14 seconds on the Sound Working Monitor Pageant. The one Brit who has ever run faster is Lizzie Chook with 9:04.25.
It’s 18 years because the ladies’s 3000m steeplechase made its Olympic debut and the British file has continued to tumble in that interval. Lizzie Chook presently holds the perfect time with 9:04.35 however Elise Thorner closed in on that mark on Saturday when she clocked 9:07.39.
Thorner, 25, loved an enormous win on the Sound Working Monitor Pageant in Los Angeles as she smashed her PB by seven seconds. On this type she is a medal contender on the European Championships this summer season.
She has made nice strides since an early efficiency of 10:47.74 within the steeplechase again in 2019, which she informed AW about on this 2025 interview.
Throughout her enhancements lately, Thorner has loved a spell in the US and is coached by former UK steeplechase record-holder Helen Clitheroe.
Additionally on the Sound Working Monitor Pageant, Josh Kerr broke 1:45.00 within the 800m for the primary time with a 1:44.60 PB as he completed simply forward of fellow Scot and fellow former world 1500m champion Jake Wightman with 1:44.74.
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The 2 males completed third and fourth in a high-quality race, although, received by Brandon Miller of the US in 1:44.26.
One other British endurance runner in type this weekend is Megan Keith, as she clocked 14:54.92 in Brussels in her first monitor race since final yr’s World Championships in Tokyo. Laura Muir was a number of seconds again in 15:07.02.
