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Athletics-Norway's Warholm breaks 400 metres hurdles world record

Norway's Karsten Warholm set a world record in the men's 400 metres hurdles in front of his home crowd at the Diamond League meeting in Oslo on Thursday.

FILE PHOTO: Athletics - Diamond League - Rome - Stadio Olimpico, Rome, Italy - September 17, 2020 Norway's Karsten Warholm goes on to win the men's 400m hurdles REUTERS/Alberto Lingria

02 Jul 2021 04:16AM

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REUTERS: Norway's Karsten Warholm set a world record in the men's 400 metres hurdles in front of his home crowd at the Diamond League meeting in Oslo on Thursday.

The 25-year-old twice world champion broke the record - which had lasted since 1992, four years before he was born - with a time of 46.70 seconds.

(Reporting by Amy Tennery, editing by Ed Osmond)

Source: Reuters