On Saturday afternoon, the Luxembourgish track and field athlete in Diekirch improved the Luxembourgish record over 2000 meters.

After Charel Grethen had already set a new national record over 3000 meters in Trier on Friday, he has now achieved the same over 2000 meters.

In Diekirch, he completed this distance in 5 minutes, 5 seconds, and 40 hundredths of a second, thereby surpassing Justin Gloden's record from the year 1978 by 2.2 seconds.