Agnes Ngetich broke the 10K World Document in a race in Valencia, Spain, in the present day January 14th 2024.
She run the 10K in 28:46, setting the brand new Document and being the primary lady ever to run the 10K in underneath 29 Minutes.
The Kenyan runner improved on the earlier quickest time, by Yalemzerf Yehualaw two years in the past, by 28 seconds.
“I’m so completely satisfied. I didn’t anticipate this world document. I used to be coming to enhance my time, at the very least someplace round 29:14, however I’m completely satisfied that I ran a world document of 28 minutes. I didn’t anticipate this.”
One other statistic of notice: the unofficial 5 Km cut up equals the 5 KM World Document.
Agnes was carrying a pair of Adidas Takumi Sen 9 – the German model’s quick distance racer. We just lately reviewed the ten version of the Takumi Sen.
We spoke about how Marathon world data are crumbling increasingly more usually recently (in our current article about super-shoes), nevertheless it appears center distances are an open subject of play too.
A query for our readers: what’s your favourite trainers for competing in a 10K? Tell us right here within the feedback!
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