The 22-year-old Kenyan phenomenon, Agnes Ngetich, left the athletics world in awe over the weekend on the Transylvania 10K in Brasov, Romania, the place she broke each the women-only 5K and 10K world data in a single race.
Ngetich took victory within the 10K with a sensational time of 29 minutes and 24 seconds. What’s much more unbelievable is her blistering tempo as she blazed by way of the midway mark in an astounding 14 minutes and 25 seconds, surpassing Ethiopia’s Senbere Teferi’s women-only document from 2021 by a formidable 4 seconds.
Sooner or later. TWO world data in Brasov💥
Agnes Ngetich rewrites the historical past books, clocking in at 14:25 for the ladies’s solely 5k and 29:24 within the 10k to crush ALL data set earlier than her. 👏
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The 10K race began with an electrifying tempo as Ngetich took cost proper from the start. She lined the primary mile in a swift 4 minutes and 30 seconds, equal to a 14:00-flat 5K tempo, distancing herself from the pacers early on. Chasing her within the preliminary mile had been her compatriot Catherine Reline and Uganda’s Pleasure Cheptoyek. Nevertheless, the 2 began to lose floor across the 3K mark. From that time on, Ngetich was on a solo mission, recording a optimistic break up of 14:25 within the first half and 14:59 within the last 5 kilometres, and securing victory with a staggering 50-second lead.
Ngetich’s distinctive efficiency in a women-only race not solely surpasses the earlier document of 30:01, set by the late Agnes Tirop in Herzogenaurach, Germany, in 2021 but additionally ranks because the second-fastest time ever recorded by a girl. It stands solely behind Ethiopia’s Yalemzerf Yehualaw’s 29:14 run in a combined race in Castellon, Spain, final yr. Yehualaw additionally clocked a time of 29:19 earlier this yr in Valencia.
This isn’t Ngetich’s first triumph on the world stage. On the 2023 World Cross Nation Championships in Australia, Ngetich received bronze after Ethiopia’s Letesenbet Gidey fell within the last 100m of the ladies’s 10K, serving to Kenya win gold within the staff classification. Ngetich shall be a reputation to observe when she ultimately steps as much as the half-marathon and marathon distances.
