Only a month after profitable Olympic silver within the males’s 800m in Paris, Edmonton’s Marco Arop is gearing up for his subsequent problem: breaking the world file within the 1,000m on the Boris Hanžeković Memorial meet in Zagreb this Sunday, Sept. 8.
“After some nice 800m races, I will probably be operating the 1,000m on the assembly in Zagreb, and I need to break the world file,” Arop instructed World Athletics in an interview. “After that, I’m heading to Brussels to interrupt the 800m world file as effectively. The file goes down.”
Arop’s silver medal in Paris was historic–it was Canada’s first medal within the occasion in 60 years. Now, he’s focusing on a brand new milestone: surpassing the 1,000m world file of two:11.96, set by Kenya’s Noah Ngeny 25 years in the past. Though the 1,000m will not be a championship distance, it’s usually contested indoors and open air, just like the mile.
The 25-year-old enters the meet in wonderful kind. He not too long ago set a North American 800m file of 1:41.20 in Paris and adopted it up with a Diamond League victory in Silesia with a time of 1:41.86 two weeks later.
At present, Arop is the second-fastest man in historical past over 1,000m (indoors), with a time of two:14.74, and he holds the Canadian file for 1,000m open air at 2:14.35, putting him nineteenth on the all-time listing. He’ll face robust competitors in Zagreb, together with Olympic 800m finalist Max Burgin of Nice Britain and 1,500m finalist Stefan Nillessen of the Netherlands.
Arop received’t be the one Canadian athlete in motion on Sunday. Quebec’s Charles Philibert-Thiboutot will compete within the males’s 2,000m; Philibert-Thiboutot set a North American file of 4:51.54 ultimately 12 months’s Brussels Diamond League, the place Norway’s Jakob Ingebrigtsen broke the world file.
The way to watch
The Boris Hanžeković Memorial meet, a Continental Tour Gold Label occasion, will probably be broadcast dwell in Canada on CBC Sports activities and CBC Gem on Sunday, Sept. 8. Protection begins at midday ET (6:00 p.m. native time).