Nairobi — Commonwealth Video games 5000m champion Beatrice Chebet ended her yr on a excessive when she set a world file for the ladies’s 5km on the Cursa dels Nassos race in Barcelona yesterday night.
Chebet clocked 14:13 in first place, to smash the earlier file of 14:19, held by Ethiopian Ejegayehu Taye in addition to the women-only file of 14:29, set by one other Ethiopian, Senbere Teferi in 2021.
In second place was Taye, who clocked 14:21 as one other Kenyan, Lilian Kasait got here third in 14:26 — a private finest.
The race, which started on a supersonic tempo, narrowed all the way down to Chebet and Taye with one kilometre to go as Kasait, who had been a part of the main pack, appeared to tail off.
With 500 metres to go, Chebet turned on the nitroburners and it appeared a matter of when and never if she can be smashing the world file.
Within the males’s race, Kenya’s Matthew Kipkoech Kipruto completed second after clocking 13:18, behind Switzerland’s Dominic Lobalu who clocked 13:12 to clinch first place.
Spain’s Abdessamad Oukhelfen completed third in 13:27.