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Second fastest European in history! Szymanski storms to 7.41 60m hurdles in Luxembourg

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Poland’s Jakub Szymanski blazed to a 7.41 clocking in the 60m hurdles at the CMCM Indoor Meeting in Luxembourg, a World Athletics Indoor Tour Silver meeting, on Sunday (19). 

The meeting record in the 60m hurdles was broken no fewer than three times across the evening. Last year’s winner Elie Bacari won the first heat in 7.51 before Szymanski ameliorated that performance with 7.46 in his heat.

But no sooner had the ink dried, Szymanski rewrote the record books again with victory in the final in a blistering 7.41 to smash his Polish record and move to equal second on the European indoor all-time list with German’s Falk Balzer, France’s Dimitri Bascou and reigning European indoor champion Jason Joseph from Switzerland.

 

Szymanski won silver behind Joseph in the 60m hurdles in Istanbul two years ago and the Pole will be looking to upgrade to gold in just under 50 days’ time at the Apeldoorn 2025 European Athletics Indoor Championships from 6-9 March.

Bacari was a distant second in the 60m hurdles final in 7.55 with Szymanski’s teammate Damian Czykier third in 7.60. 

Canales breaks the 1:45-barrier in the 800m

The European indoor all-time 800m list also underwent some revision as Spain’s Elvin Josue Canales moved to sixth on the all-time standings with 1:44.65.

Canales has already raced this indoor season and held the world lead prior to this evening with 1:45.83 but the 23-year-old, who was born in Honduras but has been eligible to compete for Spain since last year, made a big advancement in the Coque Arena.

Canales forged into the lead with 300 metres remaining and built up a sizeable advantage over his rivals, stopping the clock at 1:44.65 - just shy of his outright lifetime best of 1:44.49 - to take ownership of the Spanish indoor record from Mariano Garcia at 1:45.12.

The middle distances produced fast times across the board. In the women’s 1500m, Marta Zenoni won in an unopposed 4:03.59 to break a long-standing Italian record which had been held by Gabriela Dorio since 1982 with 4:04.01 and Germany’s Florian Bremm won the 3000m in a meeting record of 7:39.01.

Two national records for Van der Weken

Home favourite Patrizia Van der Weken did not disappoint her home crowd in the 60m and the European 100m fourth-placer treated her fans to a pair of national records.

After cruising through her heat in 7.18, Van Der Weken won the final in a national record and meeting record of 7.07. This was also a world lead at this early juncture of the season for Van Der Weken who has her sights set on a medal for Luxembourg in Apeldoorn later this year.

 

Van der Weken set her second national record of the evening in the 200m with 23.17 - also 0.02 faster than her outdoor record - although she had to give way to Germany’s Jessica-Bianca Wessolly who blasted to victory in 22.84.

Steven Mills for European Athletics

 




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