Dutch runner now has four world recordsBritain’s Dina Asher-Smith sets meeting record in 100mThe game-changing effect of super spikes on track and field was again dramatically emphasised in Hengelo on Sunday as Sifan Hassan obliterated the women’s 10,000m record by more than 10 seconds.
On a day when Britain’s Dina Asher-Smith ran a meeting record of 10.92sec in the women’s 100m, it was the Dutchwoman who stole the show in front of her home fans. The 28-year-old Hassan, who appeared to be wearing the latest version of the Nike ZoomX Dragonfly spikes, which have been billed as the “fastest shoes ever”, ran 29:06.82 to destroy the previous best of 29:17:45 set by Almaz Ayana of Ethiopia at the 2016 Olympics.