Chebet stuns Gidey for world cross country gold, Kiplimo wins men’s title
1 year, 10 months ago

Chebet stuns Gidey for world cross country gold, Kiplimo wins men’s title

The Hindu  

Kenya’s Beatrice Chebet overhauled favourite Letesenbet Gidey with a stunning late burst over the last 100 metres to clinch the women’s cross country world title on Saturday. Jacob Kiplimo later won the men’s title for Uganda but only the approach of a thunder storm about to sweep over the Mount Panorama race track was able to offer drama comparable to the women’s race.Jacob Kiplimo later won the men’s title for Uganda but only the approach of a thunder storm about to sweep over the Mount Panorama race track was able to offer drama comparable to the women’s race. Ethiopian Gidey tried to react but her legs gave way and she fell to the ground as world 5,000m silver medallist Chebet swept past her and crossed the line in 33 minutes 48 seconds. A late burst earned Ethiopian Senayet Getachew the women’s under-20 crown in 20.53, while Ishmael Kipkurui gave Kenya more success with a run of 24.29 to win the men’s age-group race.

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Beatrice Chebet: Kenyan runner smashes her own 5,000m women’s world record
1 week ago

Beatrice Chebet: Kenyan runner smashes her own 5,000m women’s world record

CNN  

CNN — As many were getting ready to welcome in the New Year on Tuesday, Kenya’s Beatrice Chebet was busy breaking a world record. The 24-year-old, who won two Olympic gold medals in 2024, capped off her brilliant year by smashing her own women’s 5,000m road world record at the Cursa dels Nassos race in Barcelona, Spain. “Two races in …

Kenya’s Chebet smashes own world record in women’s 5km, becomes first woman to breach 14-minute mark
1 week, 1 day ago

Kenya’s Chebet smashes own world record in women’s 5km, becomes first woman to breach 14-minute mark

The Hindu  

Double Olympic champion Beatrice Chebet smashed the women’s 5km world record with a time of 13 minutes 54 seconds at the Cursa dels Nassos road race in Barcelona on Tuesday as she finished a blockbuster year on a high. The Kenyan beat her previous record - set a year ago to the day at the Barcelona race - by 19 …

Paris 2024 Olympics: Kenya’s Faith Kipyegon wins third straight 1,500m Olympic gold
4 months, 4 weeks ago

Paris 2024 Olympics: Kenya’s Faith Kipyegon wins third straight 1,500m Olympic gold

The Hindu  

Kenya’s Faith Kipyegon won her third straight Olympic 1,500 metres gold on Saturday, surging ahead of the pack to finish more than a second ahead of the field. Kipyegon cemented her status as one of the all-time great middle-distance runners, becoming the first athlete to claim three successive Olympic 1,500m titles. Her winning time of three minutes 51.29 seconds broke …

Kenya’s Faith Kipyegon wins 1500-metre final for record third Olympic gold
4 months, 4 weeks ago

Kenya’s Faith Kipyegon wins 1500-metre final for record third Olympic gold

Al Jazeera  

Kipyegon becomes the first athlete ever to win three back-to-back 1500m gold medals and sets new Olympic record time. Kenya’s Faith Kipyegon made history after becoming the first woman to win three consecutive Olympic 1,500-metre gold medals with a superb display of middle-distance running. 3rd Olympic 1500m gold for 🇰🇪's Faith Kipyegon 😤 No one in history has won 3 …

Kenya's 'smiling assassin' Chebet wins Olympic 5,000m gold
5 months ago

Kenya's 'smiling assassin' Chebet wins Olympic 5,000m gold

New Indian Express  

PARIS: Kenya's Beatrice Chebet produced a masterful display of tactical running to win gold in the Olympic women's 5,000m on Monday, ending defending champion Sifan Hassan's dream of a long-distance treble. Chebet -- nicknamed "the smiling assassin" -- bided her time before accelerating past compatriot Faith Kipyegon down the home straight to take gold in 14min 28.56sec at the Stade …

Hassan takes bronze in the 5,000, the first of her 3 Olympic distance races. Chebet wins gold
5 months ago

Hassan takes bronze in the 5,000, the first of her 3 Olympic distance races. Chebet wins gold

Associated Press  

SAINT-DENIS, France — Sifan Hassan’s audacious attempt at a distance triple gold is over after just one race. That didn’t stop her from jumping on 5,000-meter gold medalist Beatrice Chebet of Kenya in a festive celebration for both women on Monday at the Paris Olympics. … My main goal is to complete all three distances.” Chebet clocked 14 minutes, 28.56 …

Uganda’s Cheptegei wins men’s 10,000m gold at Paris Olympics 2024
5 months, 1 week ago

Uganda’s Cheptegei wins men’s 10,000m gold at Paris Olympics 2024

Al Jazeera  

Cheptegei stormed to the finish line in 26min 43.14 seconds, ahead of Ethiopia’s Berihu Aregawi and USA’s Grant Fisher. Uganda’s Joshua Cheptegei withstood surging Ethiopian team tactics to claim gold in the men’s Olympic 10,000-metre at the Stade de France. The world record holder added the Olympic 10,000 metres title to his remarkable haul to take the Games’ first track …

Kenya’s Beatrice Chebet sets world record in 10,000 meters
7 months, 2 weeks ago

Kenya’s Beatrice Chebet sets world record in 10,000 meters

Associated Press  

EUGENE, Ore. — Beatrice Chebet of Kenya set a world record in the 10,000 meters at the Prefontaine Classic meet on Saturday, finishing in 28 minutes, 54.14 seconds. “I felt like I was very comfortable.” It was her first 10,000 race since 2020 in Nairobi. “But my target is to run 5,000 first, then 10,000 comes second,” she said. “Because …

TCS World 10K Bengaluru: Kenya’s Peter Mwaniki, Lilian Kasait win international elite titles
8 months, 1 week ago

TCS World 10K Bengaluru: Kenya’s Peter Mwaniki, Lilian Kasait win international elite titles

The Hindu  

Kenyan runners Peter Mwaniki and Lilian Kasait cruised to the international elite men’s and women’s titles respectively, in the 16th edition of the TCS World 10K Bengaluru here on Sunday. READ | Tajinderpal Singh Toor: Indian athletes don’t think of themselves any lesser than top athletes On Sunday, Mwaniki, Lilian and other medalists had only the photographers and a few …

Fit-again Cheruiyot vows to recapture world 1500m title
1 year, 6 months ago

Fit-again Cheruiyot vows to recapture world 1500m title

The Hindu  

Kenya’s former world 1500m champion Timothy Cheruiyot produced a dominant display to win the national trials on Saturday and vowed to recapture his world title in Budapest. The 2019 world champion and Tokyo Olympic silver medallist is relishing being back to full fitness after two years of injury that left him finishing only sixth at the last world championships in …

Kenyan record-breaker Faith Kipyegon plans double at world championships in Budapest
1 year, 6 months ago

Kenyan record-breaker Faith Kipyegon plans double at world championships in Budapest

The Hindu  

Kenya’s record-breaking running star Faith Kipyegon confirmed on Friday she will go for a 1,500m-5,000m double at the world championships in Budapest next month. The 29-year-old smashed the world records in both events in June, running 3:49.11 in the 1,500m in Florence, and seven days later an explosive 14:05.20 in her 5,000m debut race at the Paris Diamond League. Meet …

Ingebrigtsen holds off Girma to win 1,500m at Diamond League in Lausanne
1 year, 6 months ago

Ingebrigtsen holds off Girma to win 1,500m at Diamond League in Lausanne

The Hindu  

Olympic champion Jakob Ingebrigtsen held off Lamecha Girma in a battle of world record holders to win the much-anticipated men’s 1,500 metres at the Athletissima Diamond League meet on Friday. Berihu Aregawi of Ethiopia set a sizzling pace in the men’s 5,000m and then held off several challenges from Uganda’s Joshua Cheptegei - including one final move from the world …

Kenya rewards runner Kipyegon with $35,000 and house for breaking 2 world records
1 year, 6 months ago

Kenya rewards runner Kipyegon with $35,000 and house for breaking 2 world records

The Hindu  

Distance runner Faith Kipyegon was given $35,000 and a house by Kenyan President William Ruto on Tuesday as a reward for breaking two world records in the space of a week. The 29-year-old Kipyegon, a two-time Olympic champion in the 1,500 meters, set a new 1,500 world record in Florence, Italy on June 2 when she broke the eight-year-old mark …

Kiplimo wins XC world title; Chebet in women’s title upset
1 year, 10 months ago

Kiplimo wins XC world title; Chebet in women’s title upset

Associated Press  

BATHURST, Australia — Lightning cracked as Jacob Kiplimo was finishing off his win in the cross-country world championships, waving his arms to celebrate as he strode the last steps of a downhill run to the line that had claimed a major casualty in the women’s race earlier Saturday. She was so close to being the first Ethiopian woman since 2008 …

Letesenbet Gidey of Ethiopia breaks women's half marathon world record
3 years, 2 months ago

Letesenbet Gidey of Ethiopia breaks women's half marathon world record

Daily Mail  

Ethiopia's Letesenbet Gidey smashed the women's half marathon world record on Sunday, finishing in one hour, two minutes and 52 seconds at the Valencia Half Marathon Trinidad Alfonso EDP. The 23-year-old Gidey, who is also the world 5,000 metres and 10,000 metres record-holder, shaved more than a minute off the previous half marathon mark of 1:04:02 set by Kenya's Ruth …

Ethiopia's Letesenbet Gidey breaks half marathon world record
3 years, 2 months ago

Ethiopia's Letesenbet Gidey breaks half marathon world record

The Hindu  

Ethiopia's Letesenbet Gidey smashed the women's half marathon world record on Sunday, finishing in one hour, two minutes and 52 seconds at the Valencia Half Marathon Trinidad Alfonso EDP. The 23-year-old Gidey, who is also the world 5,000 metres and 10,000 metres record-holder, shaved more than a minute off the previous half marathon mark of 1:04:02 set by Kenya's Ruth …

Kenya’s Jepchirchir wins women’s marathon with late burst
3 years, 5 months ago

Kenya’s Jepchirchir wins women’s marathon with late burst

Al Jazeera  

Two-time world half marathon champion came out on top after breaking out of a virtual tie with world record holder and compatriot at 40km mark. Kenya’s Peres Jepchirchir won the Olympic women’s marathon in Sapporo on Saturday, outduelling compatriot Brigid Kosgei in the final minutes and claiming her country’s second consecutive gold medal in the event. But it was two-time …

Stockholm Diamond League: Ronnie Baker wins 100m, Armand Duplantis delights home crowd
3 years, 6 months ago

Stockholm Diamond League: Ronnie Baker wins 100m, Armand Duplantis delights home crowd

The Hindu  

American Ronnie Baker won a tight 100 metres race at the Stockholm Diamond League meeting on Sunday and heads to his first Olympics in Tokyo as a leading medal contender. With the Tokyo Olympics due to begin in a little over three weeks, world long jump champion Tajay Gayle of Jamaica produced a season's best leap of 8.55 metres to …

Kenya's Kibiwott Kandie Licks Half-marathon World Record in Valencia
4 years, 1 month ago

Kenya's Kibiwott Kandie Licks Half-marathon World Record in Valencia

News 18  

Kenya’s Kibiwott Kandie smashed the men’s half-marathon world record in Valencia on Sunday in a time of 57 minutes 32 seconds. His blistering performance was almost half a minute quicker than the previous record of 58min 01sec set by his compatriot Geoffrey Kamworor in September 2019. In perfect running conditions, the 24-year-old Kandie was chased across the line just five …

World record breakers Letesenbet Gidey, Joshua Cheptegei in running for Athlete of the Year
4 years, 2 months ago

World record breakers Letesenbet Gidey, Joshua Cheptegei in running for Athlete of the Year

Firstpost  

Gidey, 22, sliced more than four seconds off the previous 5,000m record with a time of 14 min 06.62sec in a race in Valencia Paris: Ethiopia’s Letesenbet Gidey, who smashed the women’s 5,000m world record in October, was among the nominees for the female World Athlete of the Year announced on Tuesday. Joshua Cheptegei of Uganda, who broke the men’s …

World Athletics Championships 2019: Ruth Chepngetich braves brutal conditions to win women's marathon
5 years, 3 months ago

World Athletics Championships 2019: Ruth Chepngetich braves brutal conditions to win women's marathon

Firstpost  

Kenya’s Ruth Chepngetich powered through brutal heat and humidity to win gold in the women’s marathon on Saturday, bringing the curtain down on a dramatic opening day at the World Athletics Championships in Doha. Doha: Kenya’s Ruth Chepngetich powered through brutal heat and humidity to win gold in the women’s marathon on Saturday, bringing the curtain down on a dramatic …

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