{"id":5180,"date":"2023-01-28T07:41:11","date_gmt":"2023-01-28T07:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/sam-atkin-breaks-mo-farahs-british-3000m-record-in-boston\/"},"modified":"2023-01-28T07:41:12","modified_gmt":"2023-01-28T07:41:12","slug":"sam-atkin-breaks-mo-farahs-british-3000m-record-in-boston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/sam-atkin-breaks-mo-farahs-british-3000m-record-in-boston\/","title":{"rendered":"Sam Atkin breaks Mo Farah’s British 3,000m record in Boston"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Atkin represented England at last summer’s Commonwealth Games in Birmingham<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Sam Atkin broke a record set by Mo Farah as he recorded the fastest 3,000m time in history by a British runner.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The 29-year-old ran seven minutes 31.97 seconds at the John Thomas Terrier Classic event in Boston, improving on Farah’s time of 7:32.62 from 2016.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Atkin set the time by finishing second behind American Yared Nuguse, who won the race in 7:28.24.<\/span><\/p>\n

“The race plan was to sit on Nuguse and see what I could do. It went well,” said Grimsby-born Atkin.<\/span><\/p>\n

Speaking to letsrun.com,<\/span>external-link<\/title><\/svg><\/span><\/a> he added: “I wish I’d gone a little bit earlier but I can’t complain as it’s a British record.<\/span><\/p>\n

“It’s a good first win of the season.”<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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Atkin represented England at last summer’s Commonwealth Games in Birmingham Sam Atkin broke a record set by Mo Farah as he recorded the fastest 3,000m time in history by a British runner. The 29-year-old ran seven minutes 31.97 seconds at the John Thomas Terrier Classic event in Boston, improving on Farah’s time of 7:32.62 from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5181,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5180"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5180"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5182,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5180\/revisions\/5182"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}