4-time Olympic champion Mo Farah will goal to interrupt a world record when he returns to the observe at Friday’s Diamond League assembly in Brussels.
Farah will goal Haile Gebrselassie’s one-hour record of 21.285km (13.255 miles), set in 2007.
“I consider I can do it. I need to set a world record,” mentioned Farah, who switched to highway working after the Rio Olympics.
The 37-year-old Briton, who has not competed since final October’s Chicago Marathon, has by no means set a world record.
The hardly ever run one-hour race, wherein athletes attempt to cowl as a lot distance as potential inside 60 minutes, will happen with none followers due to coronavirus restrictions.
“This record has been there for a very long time, set by somebody who has carried out rather a lot for athletics,” mentioned Farah, a six-time world champion over 5,000m and 10,000m.
“We’re going to make this a terrific showcase in Brussels.”
Ethiopian nice Gebrselassie expects Farah to grow to be the 12th athlete to held a record that was first set by Englishman Alfred Shrubb in 1904.
“The record isn’t so troublesome. I believe Mo needs the record and can get it,” Gebrselassie mentioned.
Farah, who goals to compete within the 10,000m at subsequent 12 months’s postponed Tokyo Olympics, will return to highway racing subsequent weekend when he competes within the Antrim Coast Half Marathon.
He’ll then act as a leader for Kenya’s world record holder Eliud Kipchoge and Ethiopian Kenenisa Bekele at the delayed London Marathon on four October.
“It is a unusual 12 months for all of us. We have now to assist one another,” Farah mentioned.
Sifan Hassan of the Netherlands headlines the ladies’s one-hour race in Brussels, competing towards Kenyan Brigid Kosgei as they aim the world record of 18.517km set by Ethiopian Dire Tune Arissi in 2008.
Britain’s world heptathlon champion Katarina Johnson-Thompson will compete within the excessive leap and 100m hurdles.
