OlympicTalk · Aug 23, 2020
Karsten Warholm just misses world record after hitting last hurdle
If Karsten Warholm hadn’t clipped the 10th and final hurdle, he may have broken the longest-standing men’s track world record on Sunday.
Warholm, the world 400m hurdles champion from Norway, clocked 46.87 seconds at a Diamond League meet in Stockholm. He finished .09 shy of American Kevin Young‘s world record, set at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics.
Full Stockholm results are here. The Diamond League next moves to Lausanne, Switzerland, for a Sept. 2 meet.
Warholm has inched closer and closer to the world record since winning his first of back-to-back world titles in 2017. In 2019, he ran 47.12 and then 46.92, becoming the second-fastest man in history.