Twelve months to the day after operating a world 5km file of 14:13 in Barcelona, Beatrice Chebet returned to the identical Cursa Dels Nassos race within the Spanish metropolis to enhance the mark to 13:54.
What a yr it’s been for the 24-year-old from Kenya and lots of will suppose she has been onerous finished by in lots of the athlete of 2024 awards, a lot of which had been determined effectively earlier than the yr is full.
Beatrice Chebet
In March she received the world cross-country title in Belgrade, efficiently defending the crown she received in Bathurst in 2023. On the Pre Traditional in the summertime she then turned the primary lady to run a sub-29-minute time for 10,000m when she sliced seven seconds off Letesenbet Gidey’s world file with 28:54.14.
On the Paris Olympics the diminutive runner out-sprinted Religion Kipyegon and Sifan Hassan to the 5000m title and some days later accomplished a golden double with 10,000m victory.
Diamond League glory adopted in Brussels as she received the 5000m. Now, after just a few months of extra coaching, she appears to have moved on to yet one more degree with this 13:54 time for 5km.
🎆 Beatrice Chebet turns into the primary lady to interrupt 14:00 for 5km 🎇
The Olympic 5000m and 10,000m champion from Kenya clocks 13:54 on the Cursa Dels Nassos race in Barcelona. pic.twitter.com/FQ7ohm9b8k
— AW (@AthleticsWeekly) December 31, 2024
Her rivals on the observe could be racing for minor medals in 2025 if she maintains this kind. Or it would velocity up their plans to maneuver to the marathon, as a result of Chebet has stated this yr that she has no fast plans to sort out 26.2 miles.
Matthew Kipkoech received the boys’s race in Barcelona in 13:26.
On the BOclassic in Italy, in the meantime, Telahun Haile Bekele of Ethiopia received the boys’s 10km in a course file of 27:59 forward of Yeman Crippa as Nadia Battocletti of Italy received the ladies’s 5km in 15:31.
Nadia Battocletti (Mosna)
And Berihu Aregawi of Ethiopia clocked 26:32 to pip Jacob Kiplimo of Uganda on the San Silvestre Vallecana 10km in Madrid as Marta García of Spain induced a serious upset within the ladies’s race to beat world marathon record-holder Ruth Chepngetich of Kenya by 13 seconds in 31:19.
This was Chepngetich’s first race since her 2:09:56 on the Chicago Marathon.
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