Ethiopian runner Yomif Kejelcha made each second depend as he broke the boys’s half-marathon document by only one second Sunday.
Kejelcha completed strongly within the Spanish metropolis of Valencia to set a time of 57 minutes, 30 seconds, knocking a single second off the document set in 2021 by Ugandan runner Jacob Kiplimo in Lisbon, Portugal.
The 27-year-old’s splits had been remarkably constant, operating the primary 5 kilometres in 13:38, going via the following 5 in 13:34, 13:34 and 13:36. His 10km cut up was 27:12.
Kejelcha is a former world championship silver medallist within the 10,000 metres and holds the indoor world document for the mile, which he set in Boston in 2019.
Like all monitor and discipline information, Kejelcha’s will likely be topic to ratification procedures earlier than World Athletics considers it official.
It was the second time in a row that the document was bettered by such a slim margin.
When Kiplimo set his document, the time was a single second quicker than that set by Kibiwott Kandie of Kenya a yr earlier in Valencia.
It briefly appeared there might be a world document Sunday within the girls’s half-marathon too.
Nevertheless, Kenya’s Agnes Ngetich missed out by 11 seconds whereas chasing Letesenbet Gidey’s mark of 1 hour, 2 minutes, 52 seconds.
Gidey additionally set her document in Valencia, in 2021.
World Athletics stated it was the second-fastest time in historical past.
It was the primary time that Ngetich, a world championship finalist final yr within the 10,000m, had raced the half-marathon.
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