The Tokyo Olympic final for the 400m hurdles was a near perfect race. Karsten Warholm and Rai Benjamin duked it out, and Warlholm ran 45.94 to Benjamin’s 46.17. Simply, one of the finest competitions in all of Olympic track & field.
Karsten Warholm knows that he has a challenge, how does he run faster than his 45.94 WR?
That is the question.
Karsten Warholm speaking with Jonathan Edwards, London 2017, photo by Martin Bateman
Warholm admits challenges for future
LONDON (GBR): Olympic 400m hurdles champion Karsten Warholm admits he will have to rethink his time targets after his “close to perfection” 45.94 world record in Tokyo. The Norwegian told BBC World Service: “In Tokyo, I came as close to perfection as I could given my level that day – 45.94 is a whole other level. It was a very big moment that is very hard to copy. I need to see progression in things other than just improving my time. If I can be stable at a higher level than I have been before… maybe I can run 46.50 in my first race this year and keep that level. Who knows? But it is something I need to get used to because 45.94 is not the sort of thing you can do every Diamond League race. It is going to be tough.”
