Vancouver’s Kieran Lumb has had fairly the week. Within the final seven days, he has lowered his 3,000-metre private finest by seven seconds, setting two nationwide data within the course of.
On Sept. 6 in Rovereto, Italy, Lumb earned his first Canadian file, putting third within the males’s 3,000m in 7:38.92, breaking Moh Ahmed’s earlier file of seven:40.49. In his ultimate monitor occasion of the season on Sunday, Lumb doubled down, breaking his file by two seconds on the Hanžeković Memorial (Continental Tour Gold meet) in Zagreb, Croatia, in 7:36.46.
The 25-year-old mentioned he wished to enter Sunday’s race and depart all the things on the desk—and that’s simply what he did. Lumb positioned sixth in a deep subject of 16 runners, the place six nationwide data have been set. He sat in the course of the pack for almost all of the race however positioned himself properly within the ultimate kilometre for a private finest.
Final month, Lumb represented Crew Canada for the primary time at a world championship. He didn’t advance out of the heats of the boys’s 1,500m, however determined to remain in Europe and proceed his season. “With the late-season racing, there’s nothing to lose,” Lumb mentioned in an interview. “I’ve been in private finest form all season, however in Budapest, I didn’t have an opportunity to point out it.”
Though the 2023 monitor season in Europe has come to an finish, Lumb was chosen by Athletics Canada for the inaugural World Athletics Highway-Operating Championships in Riga, Latvia, later this month. Lumb will compete within the males’s mile.