Ugandan takes 49 seconds off Yomif Kejelcha’s international list in Barcelona as international 20km race stroll list additionally falls
Jacob Kiplimo sliced 49 seconds off the sector half-marathon list in Barcelona on Sunday (Feb 16) with an implausible 56:41. In such shape, he indisputably has the possible to wreck the sector marathon list on his debut over 26.2 miles in London this spring.
Racing on the eDreams Mitja Marató Barcelona through Brooks, the 24-year-old smashed Yomif Kejelcha’s list of 57:30. En path he additionally set an international highest for 15km of 39:47.
Geoffrey Kamworor of Kenya used to be 2nd in 58:44 forward of Samuel Mailu of Kenya with 59:40 with Marc Scott the main Brit with 61:00.
Kiplimo is a former international record-holder for the half-marathon with 57:31 set in Lisbon in 2021. He additionally gained the sector half-marathon name in 2020 and international cross-country crowns in 2023 and 2024, while at the observe his highest instances are 12:40.96 for 5000m and 26:33.93 for 10,000m.
Yomif Kejelcha (proper) and Jacob Kiplimo (Getty)
Ever since Moses Tanui was the primary guy to damage the one-hour barrier in Milan in 1993, the sector half-marathon list has endured to tumble.
Haile Gebrselassie was the primary guy to run inside of 59 mins when he clocked 58:55 in Tempe in 2006. Geoffrey Kamworor got here inside of a 2nd of breaking the 58 mins in Copenhagen in 2019 however the next 12 months Kibiwott Kandie crashed in the course of the barrier as he stormed to 57:32 in Valencia.
Kiplimo then took a 2nd off that list in 2021 sooner than Kejelcha ran 57:30 in Valencia final October. And now Kiplimo has loved a quantum bounce through taking the list neatly inside of 57 mins.
“I am very excited about what I did today,” mentioned Kiplimo. “I started strong, I wanted to have a great race, but I didn’t expect to break the world record. I started very strong in the first two kilometres to get away from my rivals. As the kilometres passed and I saw that I was going at record pace, I told myself that I had to maintain that pace no matter what it took.”
The ladies’s race used to be additionally speedy in Barcelona with Joyciline Jepkosgei of Kenya successful in a path list of 64:13.
The now former international record-holder Kejelcha, in the meantime, used to be additionally in motion on Sunday with 26:30 for 10km in Castellón to head No.2 at the international all-time ratings.
It’s been fairly some week for international data with Jakob Ingebrigtsen surroundings international mile and 1500m indoor marks in Lievin, Yared Nuguse clocking a short-lived mile list in New York and Grant Fisher working 3000m and 5000m data in New York and Boston.
Toshikazu Yamanishi (Mark Shearman)
There used to be an international list within the males’s 20km race stroll, too, with Japan’s Toshikazu Yamanishi clocking 76:10 in Kobe on Sunday.
Yamanishi, a two-time international champion, progressed the former international list of 76:36 set through fellow Eastern race walker Yusuke Suzuki in Nomi in 2015 through 26 seconds.
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