Cameron Myers runs 3:28.00 in Paris, an Oceanian record, and Grant Fisher wins the 5000 m

Cameron Myers ran 3:28.00 for 1500 m at the Meeting de Paris on Sunday. It is an Australian and Oceanian record and the fastest time in the world this year, and it came in a race that was not even on the Diamond League programme; the 1500 m at Charléty was a promotional event. France's Azeddine Habz was second in 3:29.80, almost two seconds behind.

Myers turned 20 on June 9. His previous best was 3:29.85 from the Australian Championships earlier this year. In June alone he was second to Yared Nuguse in Stockholm in 3:30.32 and third in the Dream Mile in Oslo in 3:48.35, and then went to Paris and ran 3:28 flat.

Grant Fisher won the 5000 m in 12:54.80. Kenya's Jacob Krop was second in 12:55.22 and Sweden's Andreas Almgren third in 12:55.38, the three of them covered by 0.58. Almgren had run 12:48.61 in Oslo eighteen days earlier.

Georgia Hunter Bell won the women's 1500 m in 3:55.63, with Freweyni Hailu second in 3:55.92 and Agathe Guillemot third in a French record 3:56.24.

A 3:28.00 at twenty, in a race the meeting treated as a warm-up act. The main event may have been in the wrong race.

Sources: Wikipedia; Athletics Illustrated; Wikipedia; FloTrack.