There are lots of stuff you begin doing once you flip 16—perhaps studying to drive, or attempting to disassociate your self out of your mother and father. One factor you in all probability weren’t doing was working a 13-minute 5K. On Thursday evening in Northern Eire, Swedish teenager Sebastian Lörstad completed third within the Armagh 5K highway race, setting a brand new age group world file 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 file 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 file, setting a brand new 16-year-old finest by mere seconds. He additionally missed the Swedish senior 5K file 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 the earth, it has garnered a status for its aggressive area 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 ladies’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 area completed in 16:23—nonetheless a powerful time.
This 12 months set a brand new file for the race, with 22 extra people breaking the 15-minute mark in comparison with final 12 months’s file of 132 males.
Improbable @ArmaghS @Armagh5k tonight. Ladies’s 3k gained in 9:04 by Verity Ockenden, Swansea. Males’s race gained in new course file 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’ll be able to view the total outcomes from the 2024 Armagh 5K, right here.
