The Brit slashes six seconds off the mark after clocking 27:38, whilst the Ecu males’s document additionally falls within the Spanish town
Rory Leonard kicked off his 2025 season in some taste after atmosphere a British 10km document in Valencia.
The Brit clocked 27:38 and took six seconds off the former mark, which used to be held via each Mo Farah and Emile Cairess.
Farah ran 27:44 on the Power London 10,000 in 2010, ahead of Cairess equalled that mark in Valencia 3 years in the past.
The Spanish town is a hotspot for information and it’s no wonder {that a} myriad of Brits completed large non-public bests.
Charlie Wheeler, who used to be the second one quickest Brit in the back of Leonard, additionally ran faster than the former British document.
Alex Yee (Getty)
Alex Yee, who’s the reigning Olympic and global particular person triathlon champion, used to be the 3rd fastest Brit within the box and recorded a time of 28:07, which places him joint-Eleventh on the United Kingdom 10km all-time checklist.
It used to be his first ever legitimate 10km race – Yee boasts a private easiest over 10,000m of 27:54.91 at the observe – and is a part of his preparation for the London Marathon in April.
Yee will making his debut over 26.2 miles within the British capital and plans to do no less than one half-marathon forward of London.
In other places in Valencia, Phil Sesemann (28:10), Alfie Manthorpe (28:14), Ellis Pass (28:24), James Gormley (28:33), Logan Rees (28:35) and Jacob Allen (28:35) all completed non-public bests.
The quickest ever British male over 10km continues to be Nick Rose, who ran 27:34 in New Orleans in 1984, nevertheless it’s no longer formally recognised because the nationwide document via UK Athletics.
Amy-Eloise Neale (Getty)
Within the ladies’s box in Valencia, Amy-Eloise Neale ran 31:15 and went 7th on the United Kingdom 10km all-time checklist.
She used to be the quickest Brit within the box, with Jessica Warner-Judd, who’s competing at subsequent weekend’s Houston Part Marathon, clocking 31:54.
Andreas Almgren (Valencia 10km)
The Ecu 10km males’s document tumbles in Valencia
In some of the all-time nice finishes on the Valencia 10km, Andreas Almgren edged out Dominic Lobalu via only one 2nd in a in point of fact pulsating fight.
The pair clocked 26:53 and 26:54 respectively and each went neatly underneath the former Ecu 10km document of 27:04, which used to be held via France’s Etienne Daguinos.
Kenya’s Vincent Langat, who ran 26:55 and in addition got here just about successful, driven Almgren and Lobalu however settled for 3rd.
Almgren, who’s an international junior 800m bronze medallist from 2014, has lately discovered his candy spot as a distance runner – he simply overlooked out at the 10,000m podium eventually 12 months’s Ecu Championships.
Dominic Lobalu (Getty)
Lobalu in the meantime was Ecu 5000m champion and completed fourth within the Olympic ultimate over the similar distance in Paris.
Almgren and him are actually tenth and Eleventh at the world 10km all-time checklist.
Down the sphere, there have been additionally a spate of nationwide information, with one spotlight being Eire’s Efrem Gidey improving John Treacy’s long-standing mark of 27:46 from 1985.
Gidey, who trains with Leonard on the Hoka supported Makou Staying power workforce, clocked 27:43 for twentieth, highlighting the energy extensive of fast instances in Valencia.
Spain’s Ilias Fifa, who’s the 2016 Ecu 5000m champion but additionally served a four-year doping ban between 2018 and 2022, set a countrywide document on house soil of 27:41.
Hellen Ekalale Lobun (Valencia 10km)
East Africa dominate the ladies’s race
Hellen Ekalale Lobun clocked 29:30 to protected the victory on the Valencia 10km.
The Kenyan, who went 5th at the world all-time 10km checklist, beat Ethiopia’s Girmawit Gebrzihair – the 2019 global junior cross-country champion – via simply 4 seconds.
Kenyan and Ethiopian runners ruled the highest 10 with the main Ecu being Slovenia’s Klara Lukan, who positioned twelfth and overlooked her personal nationwide document via 3 seconds with 31:07.
France’s Mekdes Woldu clocked 31:43 and Belgium’s Lisa Rooms ran 31:47.
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