Norwegian sprinter Karsten Warholm broke his own European record in the 400 metres hurdles at Sunday’s Diamond League event in Stockholm, clocking a time of 46.87 seconds that was just 0.09 seconds off the world record that has stood for 28 years.
The 24-year-old improved his previous best in the discipline by five-hundredths of a second but clipped the final hurdle as he came up short of the world record of 46.78 set by American Kevin Young at the Barcelona Olympics in August 1992.
Warholm ended his day by coasting to victory in the 400m, setting a time of 45.05 on a blustery afternoon.
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