Olympian Grant Fisher kicked off his 2022 campaign in stunning fashion at the Boston University Hemery Valentine Invitational that was held on Saturday (12) in Boston, USA.
Fisher is a former high school powerhouse who won two Foot Locker titles and broke 4:00 in the mile while balancing soccer with running, delivered on his immense promise and shattered the previous record by by more than seven seconds, clocking 12:53.73.
Fisher smashed Galen Rupp’s American indoor document of 13:01.26, and missed by a whisker the Bernard Lagat’s American outside record of 12:53.60.
Fisher finished fifth at the Tokyo Olympics in10,000m and ninth in the 5000m.
This times has also placed him to fifth place in the world lists of all time that includes Kenenisa Bekele ‘s world record time of 12.49.60 (the only man under 12:50 in history). He followed by the legend Haile Gebrselassie and Daniel Komen as well as Isaiah Koech both from Kenya.
Fisher is also the first non-Kenyan or Ethiopian in history.
The Area Record is 13:01.26 and was set in 2014 in Boston by Galen Rupp.
Fisher’s performance is subject to verification by the USATF Records Committee.
All-time US indoor
5,000M
- 12:53.73 Grant Fisher 2022
- 13:00.48 Emmanuel Bor 2022
- 13:01.26 Galen Rupp 2014
- 13:05.56 Woody Kincaid 2022
- 13:05.85 Eric Jenkins 2017
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