Uganda’s Jacob Kiplimo grew to become the primary individual to run a half marathon beneath 57 minutes as he shattered the world report by 48 seconds in Barcelona.
The 24-year-old ran 56 minutes and 42 seconds to eclipse Ethiopian Yomif Kejelcha’s previous world record of 57:30 set in Valencia in October.
Kiplimo’s time is the perfect single enchancment on the boys’s world half-marathon report.
“I’m very enthusiastic about what I did as we speak,” mentioned the previous 10,000m Olympic and World Championships bronze medallist.
“I needed to have an important race, however I did not anticipate to interrupt the world report.
“I began very robust within the first two kilometres to get away from my rivals. Because the kilometres handed and I noticed that I used to be going at report tempo, I informed myself that I needed to preserve that tempo it doesn’t matter what it took.”
He additionally set a world better of 39:47 for 15km in the course of the World Athletics occasion, which was held in excellent circumstances of 13ºC with no wind.
Kiplimo’s compatriot Geoffrey Kamworor completed second (58:44) forward of Kenya’s Samuel Mailu (59:40).
