Robert Farken cracks legendary 1,500 m record in Rome!
Robert Farken cracks legendary 1,500 m record in Rome!
Rom, Italien - On June 11, 2025, Robert Farken caused a sensation at the Diamond League Meeting in Rome. The 1,500-meter runner from Germany broke the 45-year-old record by Thomas Wessinghage and ran the distance in 3: 30.80 minutes. With this performance, Farken secured fourth place. Only three men were faster in Rome: Azeddine Habz from France won in 3: 29.72 minutes, followed by Timothy Cheruiyot from Kenya with 3: 29.75 minutes and Anass Essayi from Morocco, who needed 3: 30.74 minutes. Samuel Philström from Sweden took fifth place with 3: 30.87 minutes and also set a new state record.
The old German record of Wessinghage, set up in 1980 in Koblenz, was 3: 31.58 minutes. Harald Hudak was the second fastest German ever with farken with 3: 31.96 minutes. Wessinghaly's record could not reach other well-known runners such as Jens-Peter Herold and Dieter Baumann. Homiyu Tesfaye also did not come to the record in 2014 with 3: 31.98 minutes. Farmen had already lit in 2023 when he was 3: 32.10 minutes and a German indoor record of 3: 33.14 minutes.
the competition in view
Although Farken has now significantly improved its best time, he said that he had the record in mind and wanted to run even faster this year. He trains in Boulder, Colorado, in Dathan Ritzenhein's training group, which obviously made good progress.
The performance of Beatrice Chebet from Kenya, which won the 5,000-meter race in a time of 14: 03.69 minutes, was particularly noteworthy and thus broke the national record. It was only exceeded by Gudaf Tsegay from Ethiopia, which ran the fastest time ever at 14: 00.21 minutes. Freweyni Hailu from Ethiopia reached second place with 14: 19.33 minutes, while Nadia Battocetti from Italy became the third with 14: 23.15 minutes and also set a national record.other exciting results
In the area of the discus throw, Marike Steinacker and Kristin Pudenz reached places five and seven. Valarie Allman from the USA won the discipline with a personal best of 69.21 meters, which also represents a new meeting record. Yaimé Pérez from Cuba followed in second place with 66.63 meters, while Jorinde Van Klinken from the Netherlands took third place with 65.77 meters. Simon Batz jumped to seventh place in the long jump with 7.84 meters, while Miltiadis Tentoglou from Greece led at 8.10 meters before the last attempt and ultimately exceeded Mattia Furlani from Italy with 8.13 meters. Liam Adcock from Australia completed the competition with a personal best of 8.34 meters.
in the high jump, Gianmarco Tamberi from Italy and Hamish Kerr from New Zealand failed early, while Woo Sanghyeok from South Korea won the event with 2.32 meters. In the 100-meter sprint, too, Trayvon bromell from the United States with 9.84 seconds the fastest time of the year.
The events of the day once again underline the impressive performance of the athletes and the continuing development in competitive sports - not only in Germany, but worldwide.
Runner’s World reports that Farken heralds a new era in German medium-haul run with his record time and that he is still looking for other personal best. In addition, [Sportschau] (https://www.sportschau.de/leichthletik/1500-m-farken-besert-uralt-rekord-von-Wessinghage, Diamond-League-Rom-100.html) emphasizes the high competitiveness of the athletes and their impressive performance.| Details | |
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