Kenya’s Beatrice Chebet concluded her outstanding 12 months with one other stellar efficiency, breaking the ladies’s world 5km document on the Cursa dels Nassos highway race in Barcelona on Sunday. The 23-year-old Kenyan crossed the end line in a powerful time of 14:13 (pending verification), shattering the earlier women-only world document of 14:29, held by Ethiopia’s Senbere Teferi since September 2021.
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🇰🇪’s Beatrice Chebet ends 2023 on a excessive notice as she smashes the world document* of the 5 kilometres on the highway with 14:13 on the Cursa dels Nassos in Barcelona 😮💨
*Topic to the standard ratification procedures pic.twitter.com/DjsTFA3KPz
— World Athletics (@WorldAthletics) December 31, 2023
Chebet’s distinctive run not solely surpassed the ladies’s world document but in addition improved on the ladies’s world document set in a combined race (14:19) by Ethiopia’s Ejegayehu Taye on the 2021 Cursa dels Nassos.
This 12 months’s area at Cursa dels Nassos was terribly deep, with the highest 4 ladies runners all dipping below earlier world document. Taye adopted Chebet in to safe silver in 14:21, and Kenya’s Lilian Kasait Rengeruk took third with 14:25. Uganda’s Pleasure Cheptoyek was fourth in 14:27. The highest three athletes additionally all medaled within the 5K occasion on the World Athletics Highway Working Championships Riga 23 in October, with Chebet taking gold and Rengeruk and Taye taking silver and bronze, respectively.
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✨ Beatrice Chebet fa història i registra el rècord del món de 5 quilòmetres en una prova femenina a la @Cursanassos
🔗 Segueix el podi de la cursa: https://t.co/p6dGJw8wtH pic.twitter.com/uPMIsMEeeK
— btv esports (@btvesports) December 31, 2023
Earlier than Chebet claimed the world 5K title in Riga in October, she additionally secured the world cross-country crown in Bathurst in February. It was Chebet’s straight particular person gold in XC after taking the U20 title 4 years in the past in Denmark.
Chebet adopted that with a world 5,000m bronze on the 2023 world championships in Budapest, Hungary in August. In September, Chebet ran what was then the third-fastest 5,000m time in historical past on the Diamond League closing in Paris, ending second behind Ethiopia’s Gudaf Tsegay in 14:05.92.
In 2022, Chebet gained a silver medal within the 5,000m on the world champs in Eugene, Oregon and have become Commonwealth, African and Diamond League champion.
