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Race news Valencia Trinidad Alfonso Marathon

01 January 2020, 8am

26:38 beats Leonard Komon’s 2010 record by six seconds

Cheptegei sets new 10K world record

Valencia Trinidad Alfonso EDP Marathon
Sun 1 December 2019

Record del mundo cheptegei

Uganda’s Joshua Cheptegei ran 26:38 in the 10K Valencia Trinidad Alfonso on 1 December to slice six seconds from Leonard Komon’s nine-year-old world record.

He targeted the record ahead of the race – an optimism justified by his form throughout the year, from World Cross-Country victory in March through to his gold medal in the 10,000m at the World Athletics Championships held in Doha in September.

He was sensibly paced through the early kilometres in 2:42; 5:22, 7:57 and 10:38 but Cheptegai was in front as he passed halfway in 13:23 and ran the second half alone with successive kilometres of 2:38/16:01, 2:40/18:42 and from 7-9km in 5:15/23:59. He ‘only’ had to run less than 2:44 for the final kilometre, which he did with several seconds to spare. “I knew that Valencia was going to be a really fast course,” he said, “[but] to achieve what we came here for is something really special.”

Result

marathon
Men
1 Kinde Atanaw ALAYEW ETH 2:03:51
2 Kaan Kigen OZBILEN TUR 2:04:16
3 Guye Idemo ADOLA ETH 2:04:42
4 Abebe Negewo DEGEFA ETH 2:04:51
5 Philemon Kacheran LOKEDI KEN 2:06:05
Women
1 Roza Dereje BEKELE ETH 2:18:30
2 Azmera Abreha GDEY ETH 2:18:33
3 Birhane Dibaba ADUGNA ETH 2:18:46
4 Vivian Jepkemoi CHERUIYOT KEN 2:18:52
5 Zeineba Yimer WORKU ETH 2:19:28

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