World News – UA – Joshua Cheptegei breaks 15-year world record with superhuman run

Joshua Cheptegei did what ordinary mortals can barely understand, erasing a world record that has been in existence for over 15 years

Ugandan Joshua Cheptegei broke the 5km road world record in Monaco, slashing the recent mark set by Rhonex Kipruto of Kenya by 27 seconds

The Ugandan running maniac did his impossible today by breaking a world record that has lasted for more than 15 years with a breathtaking time in the 10,000m

Participating in the NN world record day in Valencia, Spain, the 24-year-old recorded a time of 26 minutes, 1,100 seconds – erasing the old mark of more than six seconds

Kenenisa Bekele of Ethiopia held the previous world record running the distance in 26: 1753 in 2005, but it was not a game for Cheptegei given the atmosphere he was in

To put the new record into perspective, Cheptegei’s time equates to running 100m approximately every 157 seconds

Kenyan Yobes Ondieki broke the 27 minute mark in the 10,000m in 1993, then in 2004 Bekele surpassed compatriot Haile Gebrselassie’s 26:31 record32, which had lasted six years after being set in 1998

Bekele broke his own record in 2005 with a time that until today had seemed untouchable

Cheptegei had already broken two world records this year but was aiming for a third by eyeing Bekele’s 10,000m

« With the view of things now with COVID-19, you can’t win a medal, you can’t run in a championship this year, so your best bet is to try and break the world record, » said he declared during the press conference before the competition

In February, Cheptegei broke the 5km road world record in Monaco Then, after a period of lockdown in his native Uganda, he returned to Monaco and, in his first comeback race, wiped close two seconds off 16-year-old Bekele’s world record over 5,000m in an astonishing time of 12:3535

« People never believed I could get close to the 5000m world record Now I have it, » said Cheptegei

« COVID presented an opportunity – I had to run faster so the next goal is to try and break the 10,000-meter world record

Cheptegei notified his class when he won the silver medal at the 2017 world championships in London when he was only 20 years old

Last year he got better, taking gold in Doha He had already won the world cross country championship five months earlier

Prior to today, Cheptegei had only set the 18th fastest time in 10,000m with a best in Doha of 26: 4836 – but he smashed his own PB en route to topple Bekele

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