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World 5000m and 10000m records demolished by Letsenbet Gidey and Joshua Cheptegei

Once again, world athletics records have fallen, this time by the hands or rather, legs of Uganda’s Joshua Cheptegei and Ethiopia’s Letsenbet Gidey. It wasn’t enough of Gidey to break the world 5000m record in 14:06.62, she shaved more than…

Joshua Cheptegei smashes 5km world record in Monaco

Starting his 2020 racing year with a flash of lightning speed, Joshua Cheptegei smashed the 5km world record by clocking 12:51 mins* at the Monaco Run 5km. The 23-year-old Ugandan broke the event’s 13-minute barrier from the previous record of…