Two-time world cross-country champion clocks 56 minutes, 42 seconds at World Athletics race in Barcelona.
Uganda’s Jacob Kiplimo has grow to be the primary particular person to interrupt the 57-minute barrier for the half-marathon, clocking a shocking new world document time of 56 minutes, 42 seconds in Barcelona.
The 24-year-old set the document on the World Athletics Gold Label highway race on Sunday.
Kiplimo is a two-time world cross-country champion who held the half-marathon document from 2021 to 2024. He reclaimed it by slashing 48 seconds off the earlier document of 57:30, set by Ethiopia’s Yomif Kejelcha in Valencia in October.
It’s the best single enchancment on the lads’s world half-marathon document.
Racing in preferrred climate situations of 13 levels Celsius (55 levels Fahrenheit) with no wind, Kiplimo additionally set a world better of 39:47 for 15km (9.3 miles) en path to the half-marathon document.
“I’m very enthusiastic about what I did at present,” stated Kiplimo, who made his Olympic debut within the 5,000m race in Rio de Janeiro when he was simply 15.
“I began robust, I wished to have an important race, however I didn’t count on to interrupt the world document.
“Because the kilometres handed and I noticed that I used to be going at document tempo, I informed myself that I needed to keep that tempo it doesn’t matter what it took.”
What simply occurred?
’s Jacob Kiplimo smashes the half marathon world document, flying to 56:42 on the Barcelona Half Marathon
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