Rabat-the Moroccan runners Anass Essayi wrote history after broke the national record for the 3,000-meter indoor race at the French athletics meeting in Levin.
Essayi campaigned in 7 minutes and 32.45 seconds and defeated the record of 7: 33.73 from the Olympic legend Hicham El Guerrouj in 2003.
The race, part of the silver meetings of the Athletics Continental Tour, was fifth.
This happens just a few days after it had broken another record when he won the 1,500 meter race at the French Metz meeting in 3:33:55 and took second place in the world rankings for the season.
Only in history The guerrouj Run faster at the 1,500-meter interior. The Olympic Champion still holds the record at 3:31:81, which was set up in Stuttgart in 1997.
Last summer, Essayi missed a place in the 1500-meter final at the Paris Olympic Games. He was seventh in the semifinalsnot to make the top six.
In Levin he faced some of the best runners in the world, including Hagos Gebreyot and Wali Tested in Ethiopia, which has the six -fastest time in history (7: 24.68).
Also in the race, the two-time indoor champion Samuel Tefera and Norway in Philipp Inbrigtsen, the older brother of the Olympic gold medalist Jakob were inherited.
