Beatrice Chebet became the first woman to go under 29 minutes to win the 10,000m race at the new Prefontaine Classic in Eugene, Oregon on Saturday (25 May).
In the non-Precious stone Association race, which bent over as the Kenyan preliminaries for Paris 2024, the double cross world 5000m medallist had Ethiopia’s ruling 10,000m title holder Gudaf Tsegay for organization for the greater part of the race.
Chebet flooded clear in the last two or three laps, timing 28:54.14 to break Letesenbet Gidey’s past record by very nearly seven seconds.
Tsegay was second in another individual best of 29:05.92, the third-fastest time ever, with Lilian Rengeruk in third in front of Margaret Kipkemboi.
After the run, Chebet said,
“I say on the grounds that Gudaf mentioned a world record (with the Wavelight innovation), ‘Let me go with her and perceive how my body answered.’ What’s more, the body answered well then I chose to go.”
Daniel Mateiko won the men’s 10,000m in an exhilarating completion, simply getting the better of Nicholas Kimeli with Bernard Kibet third.
After two or three failed efforts at the long distance race including most as of late in London, Mateiko ran an individual best of 26:50.81 which was also the fastest time on the planet this year.
