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BERLIN, Feb 11: Sweden’s Susanna Kallur broke the 18-year-old world record for the women’s 60 metres hurdles when she clocked 7.68 seconds at an indoor meeting in Karlsruhe on Sunday.
Kallur’s time was 0.01 seconds inside the old mark of Ludmila Engquist, who was competing for the Soviet Union as Ludmila Narozhilenko when she set the record in February 1990.
“It’s all just a result of the hard work I’ve been putting in over recent years,” the 26-year-old Kallur told reporters after breaking the record in front of a crowd of 4,300.
“Of course I was feeling a bit of pressure but I just tried not to think about it,” she stated.—Reuters
