Andreas Almgren

“I’d rather do a race than a time trial as my first marathon. I went to New York during my off season last year just to see how it was. I got to feel the atmosphere and I was like: yeah, I want to do this.” My guest for today’s episode is Andreas Almgren, who is the newly-minted European 10,000m champion and soon-to-be a first-time marathoner. On November 1st he will run the New York City Marathon for his debut at the distance. He’s had a great past 12 months with four European records in that span: the 10K road in Valencia in January at 26:45 (puts him sixth on the world all-time list); the half marathon last October in 58:41 (the first European under 59 minutes); World Championships bronze in Tokyo last September, where he finished 0.25 seconds off gold; and a 5000m European record of 12:44 last outdoor season. He’s one of the best in the world right now. Andreas is 31. He grew up in Sweden playing wing-back at AIK, one of the biggest clubs in the Nordics, and only turned to running full-time after recurring injuries ended that path at 18. He won World U20 bronze in the 800m in Eugene in 2014 and looked like Sweden’s next great middle-distance runner — then spent four years with stress fractures, a broken navicular, a sacral stress fracture, missing more than he raced. In 2019, sitting on a stationary bike during rehab for that sacral fracture, he watched his friend Kalle Berglund make a world championship 1500m final using double threshold training. He copied it. He has been going up in distance ever since, and every time he steps up, he runs faster. He has been working toward the marathon for a while now. We dive into why he picked New York over Valencia, how his double threshold system has evolved over the last seven years, what it took to stay healthy the past two years, the training he is doing for the marathon right now and much more. Take this interview on-the-go in podcast form. SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/episode/1v4yriZHUsVh7B4qJYPVzD APPLE PODCASTS: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/andreas-almgren-on-his-upcoming-marathon-debut-in-new/id1204506559?i=1000784939647 FOLLOW CITIUS MAG ▶ Subscribe to the podcast: https://apple.co/3Byp72I ▶ On Twitter: http://twitter.com/CitiusMag ▶ On Instagram: http://instagram.com/citiusmag ▶ On Facebook: http://facebook.com/citiusmag ▶ Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/citiusmag ▶ On our website: http://citiusmag.com For other inquiries, contact us: chris@citiusmag.com Thanks for watching - please like, share and comment, and subscribe! Help us continue to bring track and field to your home and become a member today! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjyDlyHPHLhcIT8ov53d5qg/join

Watch Andreas Almgren front run to a brilliant championship record in the 10000m at the Birmingham 2026 European Athletics Championships. SUBSCRIBE to our channel for the best European Athletics videos and highlights: https://www.youtube.com/europeanathletics Follow European Athletics: https://www.european-athletics.com/ https://www.instagram.com/europeanathletics/ https://www.facebook.com/EuropeanAthletics https://twitter.com/EuroAthletics https://www.tiktok.com/@europeanathletics #Athletics #EuropeanAthletics #TrackandField

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Grant Fisher won the Paris Diamond League 5000m in 12:54.80, edging Jacob Krop and Andreas Almgren in a stacked field where ten athletes broke 13 minutes. It was his first Diamond League victory. Sitting fourth with 140 meters to go — not the position you'd typically expect from a runner whose reputation has tilted toward strength rather than kick — Fisher swung wide off the final turn and outsprinted Krop to the line. His closing splits tell the story: last lap in 54.4, last 200 in 26.3, last 100 in 12.7. The win was also the fifth Diamond League victory by an American men's mid-distance runner in 2026 — the most ever in a single year, with seven Diamond League meets still remaining. In this video, we get into what this race actually says about where Grant Fisher is right now. The "is he back" framing assumes he ever really left. We also get into the bigger picture: where Fisher fits in the 2028 Olympic picture. Take this interview on-the-go in podcast form: SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/episode/12GNR9HaXU8lUoWJ3P2ZNP?si=jNpYJJ83Q8aJfsFHhxRKKg APPLE PODCASTS: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/this-week-in-track-field-three-diamond-league-records/id1204506559?i=1000774777104 FOLLOW CITIUS MAG ▶ Subscribe to the podcast: https://apple.co/3Byp72I ▶ On Twitter: http://twitter.com/CitiusMag ▶ On Instagram: http://instagram.com/citiusmag ▶ On Facebook: http://facebook.com/citiusmag ▶ Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/citiusmag ▶ On our website: http://citiusmag.com For other inquiries, contact us: chris@citiusmag.com Thanks for watching - please like, share and comment, and subscribe! Help us continue to bring track and field to your home and become a member today! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjyDlyHPHLhcIT8ov53d5qg/join

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Are European and North American athletes beginning to close the gap on Kenya, Ethiopia, and Uganda? France’s Yann Schrub delivered a stunning run at the Facsa Castellón 10K, breaking his first European record with a 26:43 — moving to No. 6 all-time in the world. Uganda’s Harbert Kibet won in 26:39 on debut, while Sweden’s Andreas Almgren equaled his own former European record (26:45) in a stacked race that saw four men break 27 minutes. Chris Chavez and Preet Majithia discuss what the performance means. Catch the full episode on The CITIUS MAG Podcast in audio form ⬇️ SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/episode/7HdV1fcJAUaHbZu7yNJ16u?si=Zsus7tUaTam7xREAJHJH5A APPLE PODCASTS: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/this-week-in-track-field-a-controversial-dq-for/id1204506559?i=1000751099377 __________ FOLLOW CITIUS MAG ▶ Subscribe to the podcast: https://apple.co/3Byp72I ▶ On Twitter: http://twitter.com/CitiusMag ▶ On Instagram: http://instagram.com/citiusmag ▶ On Facebook: http://facebook.com/citiusmag ▶ Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/citiusmag ▶ On our website: http://citiusmag.com For other inquiries, contact us: chris@citiusmag.com Thanks for watching - please like, share and comment, and subscribe! Help us continue to bring track and field to your home and become a member today! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjyDlyHPHLhcIT8ov53d5qg/join

Sunday 9 March 2025: Day Four Highlights from the EICH in Apeldoorn 2025 Includes coverage from the following events: - Men 4x400m Relay - Women 4x400m Relay (ft the Dutch team including Femke Bol, Lieke Klaver, Cathelijn Peeters) - Men 3000m (ft Jakob Ingebrigtsen, Niels Laros, George Mills, Azeddine Habz, Andreas Almgren) - Men 800 (ft. Samuel Chapple, Eliott Crestan, Mark English) - Women 800m (ft. Anna Wielgosz, Clara Liberman, Audrey Werro, Anita Horvat) - Women 60m (ft. Mujinga Kambundji, Ewa Swoboda, Zaynab Dossa, Patrizia Van der Weken, Amy Hunt) - W3000 (ft Hannah Nuttall, Sarah Healy, Melissa Courtney-Bryant, Salomé Afonso) - Women Pentathlon ( ft. Jade O’Dowda, Saga Vanninen, Sofie Dokter, Kate O’Connor) - Men Pole Vault (ft. Emmanouil Karalis, Thibaut Collet, Menno Vloon, Bo Kanda Lita Baehre - Women Shot Put (ft. Yemisi Ogunleye, Jessica Schilder, Auriol Dongmo, Jorinde van Klinken) - Women High jump (ft. Yaroslava Mahuchikh, Angelina Topic ) - Men Shot Put (ft. Wictor Petersson, Tomáš Stanek, Zane Weir, Andrei Rares Toader) SUBSCRIBE to our channel for the best European Athletics videos and highlights: https://www.youtube.com/europeanathletics Follow European Athletics: https://www.european-athletics.com/ https://www.instagram.com/europeanathletics/ https://www.facebook.com/EuropeanAthletics https://twitter.com/EuroAthletics https://www.tiktok.com/@europeanathletics brnw.ch/EAWhatsApp #Athletics #EuropeanAthletics #TrackandField