Ngetich smashes world 10km report with 28:46 in Valencia, from World Athletics


Kenya’s Agnes Ngetich obliterated the ladies’s world 10km report by working 28:46* on the 10K Valencia Ibercaja, a World Athletics Label highway race, on Sunday (14).

The 22-year-old turns into the primary girl to interrupt 29 minutes for the gap, enhancing by 28 seconds the earlier highway combined race world report set by Ethiopia’s Yalemzerf Yehualaw in Castellon two years in the past.

World cross nation bronze medallist Ngetich was paced within the Spanish coastal metropolis by her compatriot Japheth Kipkemboi Kosgei and the primary world report fell at half approach as Ngetich went by the 5km checkpoint in 14:13. That’s six seconds quicker than the ladies’s world report achieved in a combined race, set by Ethiopia’s Ejgayehu Taye in Barcelona in 2021, and matches the time Kenya’s Beatrice Chebet set in a woman-only race in Barcelona a fortnight in the past.

Ngetich’s 10km time can be quicker than the ladies’s world report for the gap on the observe, with Letesenbet Gidey’s world 10,000m report standing at 29:01.03.

Emmaculate Anyango additionally dipped beneath 29 minutes in Valencia, clocking 28:57 to complete runner-up to her compatriot Ngetich.

“I’m so glad. I didn’t anticipate this world report,” mentioned Ngetich. “I used to be coming to enhance my time, no less than someplace round 29:14, however I’m glad that I ran a world report of 28 minutes. I didn’t anticipate this.”

She’s going to now give attention to the World Athletics Cross Nation Championships Belgrade 24 in March after which the Paris 2024 Olympic Video games, the place athletics would be the No.1 sport in August.

The boys’s race was received by Uganda’s Jacob Kiplimo in 26:48.

*Topic to the same old ratification process

Athlete profile: Agnes Ngetich

Girls’s 5km all-time record
Girls’s 5km (combined race) world report development
Girls’s 10km all-time record
Girls’s 10km (combined race) world report development

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