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National 5000m Records for Mo Farah, Galen Rupp in Birmingham, England
By David Monti (c) 2011 Race Results Weekly, all rights reserved.Used with permission.
New training partners Mo Farah and Galen Rupp broke their respective national records for 5000m at the Aviva Grand Prix on Saturday, February 19 in Birmingham, England.
Farah, the reigning European 5000m and 10,000m champion, won the race in 13:10.60, smashing Nick Rose's 1982 British record of 13:21.27 set in New York City. Farah now holds the British indoor records for both 3000m and 5000m.
"I'm really happy, it felt good," Farah told UK Athletics. "The crowd (at the National Indoor Arena) made a big difference and it was a nice race for me with Galen [Rupp] my new training partner so I'm look forward to the next few months."
Galen Rupp, who has been training with Farah under coach Alberto Salazar (an unusual arrangement because Farah is an adidas-sponsored athlete and Salazar has previously only coached Nike-sponsored athletes), finished second in 13:11.44, surpassing Bernard Lagat's 2009 American record by just 6/100ths of a second. Just last Saturday, Lagat had earned what was his fifth USA indoor record over the two-mile distance at the NYRR Deuce Record Challenge in New York City. He's back down to four again (1500m, mile, two-mile, 3000m).
"He got it by a whisker," Lagat said in a brief telephone interview from Tucson.