Norwegian Jakob Ingebrigtsen broke the world indoor mile record at the World Athletics Indoor Tour Gold meeting in Lievin, France on Thursday, beating last week's mark set by American Yared Nuguse. Nuguse ran 3:46.

Just five days after his US rival Yared Nuguse set a world indoor mile record in New York, Jakob Ingebrigtsen went one better at the Meeting Hauts-de-France Pas-de-Calais Trophée EDF

Jakob Ingebrigtsen smashes the indoor world records for the mile and 1,500m in a race at the World Athletics Indoor Tour Gold meeting in France.

Ingebrigtsen — who ran 3:29.63 in the 1500m and 3:45.14 in the mile — claimed Nuguse's mark just five days after the American made history.

Norway's Jakob Ingebrigtsen, the reigning Olympic 5,000m champion, set a new indoor mile world record of 3min 45.14sec at a meet in northern France on Thursday. The 24-year-old Ingebrigtsen, the Olympic 1,