Agnes Ngetich sets new 10km world record

Brasov tRUNsylvania International 10K
Sun 10 September 2023

Agnes Ngetich sped to a women-only 10km world record of 29:24 on 10 September.

The Kenyan passed through 5km in 14:25 which is also a women-only world record.

Ngetich started at a hectic pace right from the gun with fellow Kenyan Catherine Reline and Uganda’s Joy Cheptoyek quickly leaving the pacemaker behind. The trio sped through 1500 metres in a super-fast 4:12 but Cheptoyek started to lose contact with the Kenyan pair at around 2.5km. Reline started to drift back soon after 3km and from then on Ngetich was out on her own. She went through 5km in a women-only world record of 14:25, four seconds faster than the existing mark of Ethiopia’s Senbere Teferi from 2021.

By 7km Ngetich was over 100m clear of Reline and the gap just kept on widening. Her new 10km women-only world record (pending ratification) surpasses the 30:01 run by Agnes Tirop in 2021.

Weldon Langat made it a Kenyan double triumph in Brasov by winning the men’s Trunsylvania 10km in 27:05.