On the ultimate day of 2024, double Olympic champion Beatrice Chebet made historical past as soon as once more on the Cursa Dels Nassos 5K highway race in Barcelona, Spain. The Kenyan gained the race in 13 minutes and 54 seconds, turning into the primary lady in historical past to run below 14 minutes over 5 kilometres.
💥 ¡Récord histórico!
▪️ Beatrice Chebet logra el récord del Mundo en la Cursa del Nassos de Barcelona con 13:54.
▪️Primera mujer que baja de los 14 minutos y revienta su récord mundial de hace un año en la misma carrera.
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Chebet’s time is unprecedented and an enormous mark for girls’s athletics, as she lowered her personal 5K world document set on the Cursa Dels Nassos race a 12 months in the past by 19 seconds. Her time positioned her eleventh general and completed 29 seconds forward of the second lady, Ethiopia’s Medina Eisa, who crossed the road in 14:23.
Chebet is the reigning Olympic 5,000m and 10,000m champion, turning into the third lady in historical past to win each occasions on the similar Olympic Video games. She additionally defended her world cross-country title in Belgrade, Serbia, final March.
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What makes her time much more sensational is that she is the primary lady to interrupt the 14-minute barrier on any floor, additionally surpassing Ethiopia’s Gudaf Tsegay’s 5,000m world document of 14:00.21.
The 24-year-old isn’t any stranger to firsts within the sport: In Could on the 2024 Pre Traditional, Chebet broke Letesenbet Gidey’s 10,000m world document of 29:01.03 to grow to be the first lady to interrupt the 29-minute barrier, working 28 minutes and 54 seconds.
The highest general finisher on the Cursa Dels Nassos 5K, Matthew Kipkoech, crossed the road solely 26 seconds forward of Chebet.
Her time will stay unofficial because it undergoes World Athletics’ ratification course of, and might be the primary world document ratified within the new 12 months.