Kenya’s Agnes Ngetich shattered the ladies’s world 10km file on Saturday, clocking an astonishing 28:46 on the 10K Valencia Ibercaja on Sunday. This outstanding achievement makes 22-year-old Ngetich the primary girl to interrupt the 29-minute barrier for the gap, surpassing the earlier file, held by Ethiopia’s Yalemzerf Yehualaw, by 28 seconds.
Ngetich’s 10K time additionally surpasses each the ladies’s world file on the observe and the earlier girls’s street mixed-race world file. Ngetich expressed her elation post-race: “Truthfully, my clear purpose was to interrupt the world file, however 28:46 is past any expectations.”
NEW 10k WORLD RECORD /// 🧨👏
We simply can’t, Agnes Ngetich 🤯
The primary girl ever to go beneath 29 minutes slices 28 SECONDS off the earlier finest in Valencia.Historical past is in Agnes’ fingers… and he or she’s nonetheless simply 22. 🙌🔥
👟 #Adizero Takumi Sen 9
⏱️ 28:46 pic.twitter.com/cqRuun4rqR— adidas (@adidas) January 14, 2024
Ngetich’s compatriot Emmaculate Anyango was the runner-up, closing in 28:57; she additionally snuck beneath the 29-minute barrier and was 17 seconds quicker than the earlier world file. World 5K silver medallist Lilian Rengeruk, additionally of Kenya, ran to 3rd place in 29:32.
Paced by compatriot Japheth Kipkemboi Kosgei, Ngetich reached the 5K checkpoint in a blazing 14:13, setting a brand new world file for that cut up time. A outstanding complete of 11 girls broke the 15:00 barrier on the 5K mark, showcasing the excessive stage of competitors. The second half of the race confronted a headwind, resulting in a slight slowdown in tempo.
Kenyan runner loses two world data as a consequence of brief course
Ngetich’s will now gear towards the World Athletics Cross Nation Championships in Belgrade in March, and the Paris 2024 Olympic Video games in August.
High girls
1 Agnes Ngetich (KEN) 28:46
2 Emmaculate Anyango (KEN) 28:57
3 Lilian Rengeruk (KEN) 29:32
4 Janeth Chepngetich (KEN) 29:55
5 Joy Cheptoyek (UGA) 30:03
6 Loice Chemnung (KEN) 30:08
7 Cintia Chepngeno (KEN) 30:08
8 Irine Cheptai (KEN) 30:17
9 Fotyen Tesfay Hailu (ETH) 30:20
10 Sarah Chelangat (UGA) 30:26
Within the males’s race Uganda’s Jacob Kiplimo, the reigning world cross-country champion, clinched victory with a time of 26:48. Kiplimo was the favorite heading into the race and took management on the two-kilometre mark.
Bahrain’s Birhanu Balew adopted Kiplimo in, ducking beneath the 27-minute mark in 26:58, and Kenya’s Peter Mwaniki Njeru took third simply behind in 26:59.
In November, Kiplimo gained the famend NN Zevenheuvelenloop (Seven Hills Race) 15K in Nijmegen, Netherlands, in a new world finest time of 41:05, sustaining a formidable common tempo of two minutes and 44 seconds per kilometre.
Kiplimo has his sights set on the Paris 2024 Olympics, the place he hopes to double within the 5,000m and the ten,000m occasions.
High males
1 Jacob Kiplimo (UGA) 26:48
2 Birhanu Balew (BRN) 26:58
3 Peter Mwaniki Njeru (KEN) 26:59
4 Dennis Kibet Kitiyo (KEN) 27:01
5 Dominic Lobalu (SUI) 27:13
6 Andreas Almgren (SWE) 27:20
7 Mohamed Ismail (DJI) 27:27
8 Rogers Kibet (UGA) 27:33
9 Hillary Chepkwony (KEN) 27:34
10 Dawit Seare (ERI) 27:35
For full outcomes of the 2024 10K Valencia Iberacaja head right here.
