Yomif Kejelcha, the 21-year-old Ethiopian heart distance runner, tried and narrowly missed the world record at the Millrose Games on Saturday. He ran three:48.46 which is zero.01 seconds off of the record which is recently three:48.45 and held by Hicham El Guerrouj of Morocco.

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The ultimate lap of Yomif Kejelcha’s three:48.46 mile, which was once simply .01s clear of a World Record. %.twitter.com/08tBCYcdfa

— FloTrack (@FloTrack) February nine, 2019

Kejelcha introduced his try main as much as the race, and ran a actually surprising mile however was once only a hair off of the world record time. The runner drifted into lane two within the ultimate stretch which might’ve been that zero.01 of a 2d. He bested the remainder of the sector by a surprising 5 seconds. Second position went to Edward Cheserek in three:53.29 and 3rd position to Clayton Murphy in three:53.30. 

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So shut! Yomif Kejelcha 🇪🇹 wins the #NYRRMillroseGames NYRR Men’s Wanamaker Mile in three:48.46, one HUNDREDTH of a 2d off the world record! %.twitter.com/AzaCzBGdOF

— New York Road Runners (@nyrr) February nine, 2019

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In the ladies’s race, Konstanze Klosterhalfen of Germany took the win in a world main time of four:19.98. Second position went to Colleen Quigley of four:22.86 in a private absolute best and 3rd position went to her Bowerman teammate Kate Grace in four:24.27. 

Making a destroy at the midway level, #KonstanzeKlosterhalfen simply was the 2019 Women’s Wanamaker Mile Champion! #NYRRMillroseGames %.twitter.com/V1UQIoQKZD

— New York Road Runners (@nyrr) February nine, 2019

In the lead as much as the race Kejelcha’s trainer, Alberto Salazar, stated that if New York didn’t pass to devise, Kejelcha would try the record once more in Boston on March 1.