No Ingebrigtsen? No drawback. Norwegian hurdling star Karsten Warholm stole the highlight on the Bislett Video games on Thursday night time, breaking the lads’s 300m hurdles world greatest in entrance of a roaring residence crowd on the Oslo Diamond League.
Warholm ran 32.67 seconds, turning into the primary man ever to interrupt the 33-second barrier within the occasion. The race featured a stacked discipline, together with 2024 Olympic 400m hurdles champion Rai Benjamin and 2022 world champion Alison dos Santos of Brazil, however Warholm pulled away within the remaining 50 metres, slicing three-tenths of a second off his earlier world better of 33.05, which he set earlier this yr on the Xiamen Diamond League.
WORLD BEST within the 300m hurdles!@kwarholm holds off a unbelievable problem from @_Kingben_ to clock 32.67!#OsloDL🇳🇴#DiamondLeague
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Now, you could be questioning: What even is the 300m hurdles? And truthful sufficient, because it’s not a standard championship occasion. In March 2025, World Athletics acknowledged the 300m hurdles as an official statistical occasion, which means it is going to now depend towards world rankings and shall be handled equally to the 400m hurdles.
Whereas the occasion gained’t seem on the Olympics or World Championships anytime quickly, World Athletics says it is going to decide to sustaining an inventory of high performances and can ultimately outline situations for official world data, as soon as the occasion beneficial properties traction. Two of the six Diamond League meets thus far this season have featured the 300m hurdles, and Warholm has gained each, clocking world-best occasions at every outing.
Extra highlights from Oslo
American distance runner Nico Younger delivered an enormous efficiency within the males’s 5,000m, profitable in 12:45.27—the quickest out of doors 5,000m ever by an American. Olympic 5,000m champion Jakob Ingebrigtsen was initially set to headline the occasion, however withdrew weeks in the past resulting from harm.
AMERICAN RECORD* 🚨
Nico Younger took down Grant Fisher’s three-year-old American file of 12:46.96 along with his 12:45.27 in Oslo!
*pending verification by the USATF data committee
📸: Getty pic.twitter.com/FjtDxwEiL4
— USATF (@usatf) June 12, 2025
Two Canadian Olympians additionally lined up within the males’s 200m. Andre De Grasse completed third in 20.33 seconds, whereas Aaron Brown positioned sixth in 20.65. Each sprinters are slated to compete once more quickly, with appearances deliberate on the Stockholm Diamond League in Sweden, and the Paavo Nurmi Video games in Finland on June 17.
For full outcomes from the Bislett Video games, go to the official Oslo Diamond League web page right here.
