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Karsten Warholm explains the feeling that engulfed him at the tail end of the race at the Xiamen Diamond League meeting.
Three-time world champion Karsten Warholm opened his season in stunning style by breaking his own world best for 300m hurdles at the opening Wanda Diamond League meeting of 2025 in Xiamen on April 26.
Warholm, who hadn’t raced since his victory in Silesia in late August last year, showed no signs of rust as he powered around three-quarters of the track, gliding over the barriers to win by almost a second in 33.05, an improvement of 0.21 on the world best he set in Oslo in 2021, the year he set the world 400m hurdles record.
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Brazil’s Matheus Lima was second in 33.98 and Japan’s Ken Toyoda took third place in 34.22. It was recently announced by World Athletics that the 300m hurdles will become an official world record discipline in due course.
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Warholm revealed after the race the weird feeling his legs felt especially especially at the bend, maintaining that he had to dig deeper to win.
“I was a little bit surprised by how easy my legs were feeling off the last bend. Of course you feel it a little bit in the end, but I managed to really push in the last 45 metres," Warholm told World Athletics.
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"This shows that the speed is there and the speed over the hurdles is there."
Warholm’s run was one of eight meeting records established in Xiamen. Warholm is the 2020 Tokyo Olympic champion, silver medalist at the 2024 Paris Olympics, and world record holder in the World championships.
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Warholm is a three-time European champion, winning in 2018, 2022, and 2024. He is the first athlete ever to win three 400 m hurdles events at the World Championships.
Warholm is a two-time Diamond League 400m hurdles champion. In 2021, he was voted World Athletics Male Athlete of the Year.
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