Joshua Cheptegei beaten; World half Marathon Championships Produce World Record
Kenyan Peres Jepchirchir lowered
her own women’s-only world record, while Ugandan track star Joshua
Cheptegei was beaten at the world half marathon championships in Gdynia,
Poland on Saturday.
Jepchirchir lowered her mark by 18
seconds, clocking 1:05:16 to win by two seconds over German Melat
Kejeta. On Sept. 5, Jepchirchir, 27, took 37 seconds off Ethiopian Netsanet
Gudeta‘s mark from 2018.
The top six women on Saturday all went
faster than Gudeta’s old world record.
The current and former overall
world-record holders in mixed-gender races — Ethiopian Ababel Yeshaneh and
Kenyan Joyciline Jepkosgei — fell together in the 11th mile
and finished fifth and sixth. Yeshaneh’s record is 1:04:31.
Cheptegei, who broke the 5000m and
10,...