✳ Kiplimo 1st ✳ Cheptegei 4th Individual Prizes 1. $30,000 (Sh111million) 2. $15,000 3. $10,000 4. $7,000 Team Prizes 1. $15,000 2. $12,000 3. $9,000 4. $7,500 Gdynia, Poland | THE INDEPENDENT & XINHUA | Nineteen-year-old Ugandan long distance sensation Jacob Kiplimo stunned a strong field to win the World …
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✳ Half-marathon Women – 12.00pm LIVE on SuperSport ✳ Half-marathon Men – 1.30pm ✳ TEAM UGANDA 🇺🇬 : Cheptegei, Jacob Kiplimo Moses Kibet, Stephen Kissa, Abel Chebet | Juliet Chekwel, Doreen Chemutai, Doreen Chesang, Rachael Zena Chebet Team Prizes 1. $15,000 2. $12,000 3. $9,000 4. $7,500 Individual Prizes 1. …
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*⃣ 25 laps *⃣ Former world record 26:17.53 – Kenenisa Bekele *⃣ New World record by Cheptegei 26:11.00 📌CHEPTEGEI records ✅ 5000m 12:35.36 WR ✅ 5k (route) 12:51 WR ✅ 10000m 26:11.00 WR ✅ 15k (route) 41:05 WR Valencia, Spain | THE INDEPENDENT | Joshua Cheptegei confirmed he is the new king …
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LIVE *⃣ 5,000m race (women) – 10.33pm Today *⃣ 10,000m race – 10.55pm Today *⃣ 25 laps *⃣ Current world record 26:17.53 – Kenenisa Bekele *⃣ Cheptegei best time 26:48.36 Cheptegei set to break 15-year-old world record Valencia, Spain | THE INDEPENDENT | Joshua Cheptegei aims to become the greatest distance runner of …
Read More »Uganda’s Kiplimo is back!
Results ✳ Jacob Kiplimo 🇺🇬 12:48.63 PB/MR ✳ Selemon Barega 🇪🇹 12:49.08 PB * Previous Meeting record 12:48.81, Stephen Cherono (KEN), 2003 Ostrava, CZECH REPUBLIC | THE INDEPENDENT | What Joshua Cheptegei can do, Jacob Kiplimo will strive to emulate. Ugandan 19-year-old former junior world champion Kiplimo on Tuesday showed he will be the …
Read More »PICTORIAL: Joshua Cheptegei back
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Joshua Cheptegei returned home from Monaco, where two days ago he shattered the 5,000m World Record. He crossed the border from Kenya, where he landed earlier in the day on a Turkey Airways flight from Monaco. He is now headed to his training camp in …
Read More »World record holder Cheptegei back home
Nairobi, Kenya | THE INDEPENDENT & XINHUA | The new 5000m World record holder Joshua Cheptegei is expected back home today from Monaco. Cheptegei, Stephen Kissa, Halima Nakaayi and Winnie Nanyondo flew into Jomo Kenyatta International Airport, Nairobi, Kenya early today aboard a Turkish Airlines. The athletes were received by …
Read More »Cheptegei breaks world 5k record
Monaco, Principality of Monaco | THE INDEPENDENT | With an astonishing time of 12:35.36, Uganda’s Joshua Cheptegei today added the track 5,000m to the 5,000m road and 15km world records he holds. World 10,000m world champion Cheptegei ran incredibly 11 consistent laps, closing in a time of 59.64 as he set …
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TODAY ✳ M 5,000m final 10.13pm ✳ W 1,000m final 10.39pm Joshua Cheptegei -5000m Stephen Kissa (pacer) – 5000m Halimah Nakaayi – 1000m Winnie Nanyondo – 1000m Monaco, Principality of Monaco | THE INDEPENDENT | There will be three pace setters in Joshua Cheptegei’s attempt to break the 5000m World …
Read More »Cheptegei off to Monaco, COVID-19 knocks out Kenyan ace
The Missed Olympics ✳ July 30, 2020 10,000 m final ✳ August 6, 2020 5000m final Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Steeplechase king Conseslus Kipruto from Kenya will miss the Monaco Diamond League event that will mark the resumption of of world athletics after testing positive for COVID-19. “Unfortunately my …
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