1000 m (indoor), men

What to remember

Stockholm, February 17, 2016: at the Globen Galan meeting, Djibouti's Ayanleh Souleiman ran the indoor 1000 m in 2 min 14.20 s. That is an average speed of 26.826 km/h, on an indoor track whose oval measures 200 m.

The 1000 m is an uncommon middle-distance event, sitting between the 800 m and the 1500 m. Souleiman is a 1500 m specialist: he took the Djiboutian record for that distance to 3:29.58, and the national 3000 m record to 7:42.22.

He shone over this same 1000 m a few months later, in August 2016, when he set a Diamond League record. World Athletics ratifies indoor records for the Olympic events and a few others, this rarely run distance among them.