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Sam Atkin breaks Mo Farah's 3,000m British record in Boston, Dina Asher-Smith clocks fastest 60m time in Germany
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Published 28/01/2023 at 10:09 GMT
Grimsby-born US-based athlete Sam Atkin broke a British 3,000m record previously set by Mo Farah when he clocked 7:31.97 at the John Thomas Terrier Classic event in Boston. However, the time wasn't fast enough to take top spot as he finished second behind American Yared Nuguse. Meanwhile, Dina Asher-Smith clocked the fastest 60m of any British athlete at the World Indoor Tour in Germany.
Sam Atkin of Team Great Britain competes in the Men's 10,000 metres Final on day seven of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games at Olympic Stadium on July 30, 2021 in Tokyo, Japan.
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Sam Atkin clocked a new British 3,000m record by running 7:31.97 at the John Thomas Terrier Classic event in Boston, beating Mo Farah’s time of 2016.
The Grimsby-born US-based athlete improved on Farah’s time of 7:32.62 to finish second behind American Yared Nuguse, who won the race in 7:28.24.
"The race plan was to sit on Nuguse and see what I could do. It went well," said Grimsby-born Atkin.
Speaking to letsrun.com, he added: "I wish I'd gone a little bit earlier but I can't complain as it's a British record.
"It's a good first win of the season."
Atkin has shown great promise in recent seasons with 13:03.64 indoors for 5000m and 27:26.58 for 10,000m.
However, he didn’t make the final at Worlds and dropped out of the Commonwealth and European 10,000 finals.
Meanwhile, Dina Asher-Smith set a new British record at the World Indoor Tour in Germany on Friday.
The 27-year-old clocked a time of 7.04 seconds to triumph in the 60m final, beating Asha Philip's previous best of 7.06 seconds to win the European title in Belgrade in 2017.
Asher-Smith finished ahead of Poland’s Ewa Swoboda with Mujinga Kambundji coming third in Karlsruhe.
"I'm really happy to have run a British record today, it was one of my indoor aims so I'm really happy to have ticked that off kind of on my second race of the season," Asher-Smith told World Athletics.
"I'm just hoping to continue running fast and enjoy the next few races I have coming up.
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Dina Asher-Smith of Team Great Britain looks on after competing in the Women's 100m Semi-Final on day three of the World Athletics Championships Oregon22 at Hayward Field on July 17, 2022 in Eugene, Oregon.
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"I was just hoping to put together a good race today, you never know, you can have your fingers crossed and hope for a good time but sometimes it just doesn't happen, trust me we've all been there.
"I was just focused on ticking off what I needed to do in the race, making sure I stayed focus and ran my race plan, I knew if I did that I'd be in with a shot of a really good time. I'd have loved to have run a little faster but I'm taking this one."
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