Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
By the 5,000 metre mark at 13:33.20 (27:07 pace), only 10 had fallen off the back. Nine laps later, Cheptegei took over the front and two more fell off the back, though Hagos Gebrhiwet , Yemaneberhan Crippa and Lopez Lomong were barely hanging on to the fast-pace.
Four winners of the 10,000 m have completed a long-distance double by also winning the 5000 metres at the World Championships in Athletics: Tirunesh Dibaba was the first to do so in 2005, Kenenisa Bekele became the first man to do so in 2009, and Vivian Cheruiyot (2011) and Mo Farah (2013/2015) followed at the subsequent editions.
World U20 Record Viktor Burayev (RUS) 38:46.4: Moscow, Russia: 20 May 2000 Championship Record Daisuke Matsunaga (JPN) 39:27.19: Eugene, United States: 25 July 2014 World U20 Leading Sohtaroh Osaka (JPN) 40:42.09: Kitami, Japan: 6 July 2024
Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone being greeted with a "World records are my favorite food" sign at the 2022 World Athletics Championships. World Athletics (then IAAF) commenced the recognition of world records in 1912, and indoor world records after 1987. In 2000, IAAF rule 260.18a (formerly 260.6a) was amended, so that "world records" (as opposed to ...
Ethiopia's Almaz Ayana smashed the world record to win the Olympic 10,000 meters title, shining in one of the greatest ever long-distance races.
World record Joshua Cheptegei (UGA) 26:11.00: Valencia, Spain: 7 October 2020 Championship record Kenenisa Bekele (ETH) 26:46.31: Berlin, Germany: 17 August 2009 World Leading Grant Fisher (USA) 26:33.84: San Juan Capistrano, United States: 6 March 2022 African Record Joshua Cheptegei (UGA) 26:11.00: Valencia, Spain: 7 October 2020 Asian Record
World Athletics will become the first international sports governing body to award prize money to Olympic gold medalists starting at the Paris 2024 Games. World Athletics introduces $50,000 prize ...
For women, the world record is held by Beatrice Chebet of Kenya, in 28:54.14, set in Eugene, Oregon, on 25 May 2024. [ 2 ] The 10,000 metres demands exceptional levels of aerobic endurance, and elite athletes typically train in excess of 160 km (100 miles) a week.