Mo Ahmed sets new Canadian indoor record in 5,000 metre
Canadian Olympian Mo Ahmed has another national record.
The 26-year-old runner from St. Catharines, Ont., broke the Canadian record in the 5,000-metre indoor on Sunday with a time of 13 minutes 4.60 seconds at Boston University.
Ahmed broke Cam Levins’s mark of 13:19.16 set on the same track in Boston in 2014.
Ahmed already holds the Canadian outdoor record of 13:01.74 in the 5,000.
Ahmed finished fourth in the men’s 5,000 at the Rio Olympics.
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