Cheptegei sets 10K record
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Uganda’s Joshua Cheptegei set a new 10-kilometer road world record in Valencia, Spain, yesterday, closing out his season in style by eclipsing the previous benchmark set by Kenyan Leonard Komon. The current 10,000-meter world champion, who won the IAAF World Cross Championships earlier this year in Denmark, clocked 26 minutes 38 seconds, improving Komon’s 2010 mark by six seconds, at the Valencia Trinidad Alfonso. “What a year it has been. I can’t believe it,” the 23-year-old said after completing the memorable 2019 hat-trick. Cheptegei reached the halfway mark in 13:23 and the world record appeared within his grasps when he reached 8 km in 21:37. He covered the final km in 2:45.
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