De Grasse claims 100m victory, Ingebrigtsen wows Oslo

Canada’s triple Olympic medallist André De Grasse took victory in the 100m at the Oslo Diamond League meeting on Thursday as Norwegian 16-year-old Jakob Ingebrigtsen again broke the four-minute barrier for the mile.

De Grasse, 22, sprinted home in 10.01sec ahead of Britain’s Chinjidu Ujah (10.02sec), who won in Rome last week, and Ben Youssef Meité of the Ivory Coast (10.03).

Ingebrigtsen won the mile race in 3min 56.29sec, improving his recent best of 3:58.07 which had allowed him to become the youngest man to go below four minutes for the mile.

Ingebrigtsen, who will only turn 17 on September 19, said he has the capacity to go faster.

“I could have run faster today but it doesn’t matter because it was a crazy experience,” said the Norwegian star.

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