On Friday on the Rome Diamond League meet in Italy, Canada’s Moh Ahmed completed seventh within the males’s 5,000m with a time of 12:54.90, assembly the 2025 World Championship normal for the occasion. This marks the ninth time in Ahmed’s profession that he has run beneath 13 minutes for five,000m.
This achievement comes 5 days after he set a brand new Canadian report within the males’s 3,000m on the Silesia Diamond League in Poland, clocking 7:31.96. Within the males’s 5,000m race in Rome, the sector went out at a tempo aimed toward Joshua Cheptegei’s world report of 12:35.36 via the primary 2,000m, however heat situations took a toll on the runners, slowing the tempo across the 3,000m mark.
The qualifying window for the 2025 World Championships in Tokyo opened on Aug. 1, simply earlier than the Paris Olympics, the place Ahmed secured the boys’s 10,000m normal along with his fourth-place end (in 26:44.79); he missed the 5,000m normal on the Olympics resulting from a fall within the qualifying spherical, which saved him out of the ultimate. The qualifying normal for the boys’s 5,000m occasion is 13 minutes and one second, 4 seconds quicker than it was for the Paris Olympics.
Ahmed is considered one of solely two Canadian athletes to have damaged the 13-minute barrier within the males’s 5,000m; the opposite is Justyn Knight. The 33-year-old from St. Catharines, Ont., has achieved this feat 9 occasions in his profession.
Ethiopia’s Hagos Gebrhiwet gained the boys’s 5,000m race in Rome with a time of 12:51.07, whereas his compatriots Yomif Kejelcha and Selemon Barega took second and third place, respectively.
Canada’s Alysha Newman third in pole vault
Alysha Newman of London, Ont., adopted up her bronze-medal-winning efficiency in Paris with one other third-place end on the Rome Diamond League within the girls’s pole vault. Newman cleared her first three heights simply, however didn’t clear her three makes an attempt at 4.83 metres. The Olympic champion from Australia, Nina Kennedy, gained the occasion together with her 4.83m clearance on countback.
For full outcomes from the 2024 Rome Diamond League, examine right here.