There are a number of belongings you begin doing once you flip 16—perhaps studying to drive, or attempting to disassociate your self out of your dad and mom. One factor you in all probability weren’t doing was operating a 13-minute 5K. On Thursday evening in Northern Eire, Swedish teenager Sebastian Lörstad completed third within the Armagh 5K street race, setting a brand new age group world document of 13:36.
The 16-year-old took cost from the gun, setting the tempo and main the race deep into the ultimate kilometre. However within the closing stretch, pre-race favorite Andrew Colley of the U.S. (who, at 33, is twice Lörstad’s age) unleashed a surge to win in a brand new course document of 13:33. Britain’s Jack Kavanagh adopted two seconds behind in 13:35, whereas Lörstad, regardless of being outsprinted, made historical past by breaking Jakob Ingebrigtsen’s age-group document, setting a brand new 16-year-old finest by mere seconds. He additionally missed the Swedish senior 5K document by solely 4 seconds.
Colley, Kavanagh and Lörstad had been three of 154 runners who shattered the 15-minute barrier on Thursday on the Armagh Worldwide Highway Race, with 22 of them breaking 14 minutes. Dubbed one of many quickest 5K races on this planet, it has garnered a popularity for its aggressive subject and quick, five-lap course round a communal park (The Mall) in the course of city. An enormous crowd lined the park to cheer on runners within the males’s 5K and girls’s 3K races.
Each February, runners from all around the world flock to Armagh, drawn by the attract of an opportunity to check their limits on one of many world’s quickest programs. This 12 months, the race hosted runners from Sweden, Finland, the usA., Germany and the Netherlands. To qualify for the race, males should run a time of 16 minutes or underneath for 5K. The last-place finisher (219th place) on this 12 months’s males’s subject completed in 16:23—nonetheless a powerful time.
This 12 months set a brand new document for the race, with 22 extra people breaking the 15-minute mark in comparison with final 12 months’s document of 132 males.
Implausible @ArmaghS @Armagh5k tonight. Girls’s 3k received in 9:04 by Verity Ockenden, Swansea. Males’s race received in new course document 13:31 by Andrew Colley USA. Story of evening 13:36 by 16 yr Sebastian Larstad of Sweden (Unofficial age WR). Delighted to be on livestream. @EDAC_Youtube. pic.twitter.com/g3n1iVECuq
— Fintan Reilly (@fintanreilly) February 13, 2025
You possibly can view the complete outcomes from the 2024 Armagh 5K, right here.