Uganda’s Jacob Kiplimo smashes half-marathon world document
Sunday sixteenth February, 2025 05:16 PM|
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Uganda’s Jacob Kiplimo has grow to be the primary individual 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 street 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 is the best single enchancment on the boys’s world half-marathon document.
Racing in supreme 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 am very excited about what I did today,” 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 excellent race, however I didn’t count on to interrupt the world document.
“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.”
He additionally set a world better of 39:47 for 15km in the course of the World Athletics occasion, which was held in good situations of 13ºC with no wind.
Kiplimo’s compatriot Geoffrey Kamworor completed second (58:44) forward of Kenya’s Samuel Mailu (59:40).
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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