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Ugandan athlete Cheptegei surpasses Bekele and achieves the world record in the 5,000 meters

2020-08-14T20:49:05.553Z


The 23-year-old has set a mark of 12: 35.37 in the Monaco Diamond LeagueUgandan athlete Joshua Cheptegei, 23, has broken the world record of 5,000 meters, so far held by Ethiopian Kenenisa Bekele (12: 37.35), and has set the mark with a stratospheric time of 12: 35.37 in the Monaco Diamond League. Cheptegei was down in almost every lap of 1:01 and in the last two of the minute to break a mark that no one had managed to beat since 2004, when Bekele stopped the clock in...


Ugandan athlete Joshua Cheptegei, 23, has broken the world record of 5,000 meters, so far held by Ethiopian Kenenisa Bekele (12: 37.35), and has set the mark with a stratospheric time of 12: 35.37 in the Monaco Diamond League. Cheptegei was down in almost every lap of 1:01 and in the last two of the minute to break a mark that no one had managed to beat since 2004, when Bekele stopped the clock in Hengelo (Netherlands).

The second of the race, Kenyan Nicholas Kipkorir Kimel, arrived almost sixteen seconds late (12: 51.78). With this feat, Cheptegei can already boast of holding three world records, since before this Friday he had achieved the 5 and 10 kilometers on the road. "I have been trying to improve my speed," Cheptegei said when asked about his progression to this record of 5,000 meters.

Another year, another world record at #MonacoDL

2018: #Chepkoech 8: 44.32
2019: #Hassan 4: 12.33

2020: #Cheptegei 12: 35.36 # DiamondLeague pic.twitter.com/PU3heKGWL9

- Wanda Diamond League (@Diamond_League) August 14, 2020

In the same race in which Cheptegei set the record, Spaniard Ouassim Oumaiz also signed a great time after setting his personal best after running at 13: 13.14. More Spaniards also competed. Of all of them, the first to jump on the track was Orlando Ortega. With his victory in the 110 meter hurdles, the meeting began. He surpassed men of proven quality such as the American Grant Holloway, current world champion, the Italian Andrew Pozzi, the leader in 2020, or the French Wilhem Belocian. Ortega had to wait until the last two hurdles to get out of third place and gain momentum to first. In the last meters he took the victory with the best world time of the year: 13.11. Behind, Pozzi and Belocian could not with the Spanish, who debuted this year in a big competition.

Jesús Gómez had a difficult ballot in the 1,500 meters with a star-studded race that ended with the historical record of the Norwegian Jakob Ingebrigtsen, who broke the European record after setting the clock at a time of 3: 28.68. The previous record, held by the British Mohamed Farah (3: 28.81), had a duration of seven years. He finished with him despite being in second place behind the Kenyan Thimothy Cheruiyot, who achieved the best world record of the year with a time of 3: 28.68. Gomez, surrounded by those times, also shattered his personal best in the 1,500 meters after finishing in sixth place in the league with a time of 3: 33.07, with which he lowered his previous record by more than three seconds.

Before, the turn was for Esther Guerrero in the 5,000 meters for women. After signing the best Spanish mark in the 2,000 meters a few weeks ago and her personal best in the 800 meters in a meeting in Sollentuna, she appeared in Monaco to do the work of the hare in a race with flashy names, such as the Ethiopian Letesenbet Gidey , the Kenyan Betracie Chepkoech and Hellen Obiri. Guerrero fulfilled her mission to perfection and completed the first laps at the established pace of 1.09 to open the way to victory for Obiri, who set the best world record of the year with 14: 22.12. The woman with the best final won, who also achieved another record: a record in the Monaco Diamond League in the specialty.

The Spanish participation was closed by the Spaniards of the 3,000 meter hurdles. Fernando Carro, finished in a great fourth position, while Dani Arce was seventh with his personal best (8: 19.40).

Source: elparis

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