Norway's Jakob Ingebrigtsen, the reigning Olympic 5,000-meter champion, set a new indoor mile world record of 3 minutes, 45.14 seconds at a meet in northern France on Thursday.
The 24-year-old Ingebrigtsen, the Olympic 1,500 champion in 2021, had come to the event expressly to better the 3:46.63 record run by American Yared Nuguse at the Millrose Games in New York last Saturday.
"It feels amazing," said Ingebrigtsen, who had never raced the distance indoors.
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