IAAF Ratifies Yomif Kejelcha's Indoor Mile World Record

By Adam Kopet

The IAAF announced Monday that Yomif Kejelcha's 3:47.01 indoor mile at the Bruce Lehane Invitational has been ratified as the world record.

Watch Kejelcha's world record run on RunnerSpace.com.

This was Kejelcha's second attempt to break the world record. He came up 0.01 seconds short in the Wanamaker Mile at the NYRR Millrose Games in February. He also made an attempt to break the indoor 1,500-meter world record in Birmingham, but fellow Ethiopian Samuel Tefera won the race in a world record 3:31.04.

The indoor mile record had been held by Morocco's Hicham El Guerrouj at 3:48.45. He set that record in 1997, making the record almost six years older than Kejelcha, who was born in 1997.

Kejelcha's 1,500-meter split was recorded. With just over 100 meters to go, Kejelcha ran 3:31.25, the third fastest 1,500 meters ever recorded indoors.