S. GitahiChebet breaks world 5km record in Barcelona
Reading Time: 2min | Sun. 31.12.23. | 20:44
The 23 year old out of track, also won the World Cross country championships andRoad Running Championships this year
World champion Beatrice Chebet ended her year on a high by running 14:13 to smash the women’s world 5km record at the Cursa dels Nassos, a World Athletics Label road race, in Barcelona on Sunday 31 December.
WORLD RECORD
— World Athletics (@WorldAthletics) December 31, 2023
🇰🇪's Beatrice Chebet ends 2023 on a high note as she smashes the world record* of the 5 kilometres on the road with 14:13 at the Cursa dels Nassos in Barcelona 😮💨
*Subject to the usual ratification procedures pic.twitter.com/DjsTFA3KPz
The Kenyan 23-year-old, who navigated past Ethiopian Kassie Wubrist in the first 1.9km to take over the race lead to the end, improved on the previous women-only world record of 14:29 set by Ethiopia’s Senbere Teferi in Herzogenaurach on 12 September 2021, while her performance is also faster than the women’s world record set in a mixed race of 14:19, achieved by Ethiopia’s Ejegayehu Taye at the 2021 Cursa dels Nassos.
.jpg)
Taye finished second behind Chebet on this occasion, clocking 14:21, while Kenya’s Lilian Kasait Rengeruk was third in 14:25 as the top three – all 5km medallists at the World Athletics Road Running Championships Riga 23 in October – dipped under the previous women-only world record mark. Uganda's Joy Cheptoyek was also inside that mark, finishing fourth in 14:27.
🚨🚨 WORLD RECORD!! La Kényane Beatrice Chebet (🇰🇪) est la nouvelle recordwomen du monde du 5 kilomètres route en 14 minutes et 13 secondes! C’était à l’instant lors de la « Cursa dels Nassos » à Barcelone 🚀🚀 pic.twitter.com/uoWj0K59au
— RUN’IX (@RUN_IX) December 31, 2023
Prior to her world 5km title win in Riga, Chebet also claimed the world cross country crown in Bathurst in February and won world 5000m bronze in Budapest in August.
.jpg)