World records in Valencia: Cheptegei breaks Bekele's historic record in 10,000 meters

Two world records on the track in one hour.

Valencia has gone down in the history of athletics by the hand of the Ugandan

and the Ethiopian

, who have broken the world records of 10,000 and 5,000 meters in the NN Valencia World Record Day, an event organized by the SD Correcaminos and the NN Running Team and promoted by the Trinidad Alfonso Foundation that has been held at the Turia stadium.

Cheptegei, with a time of 26:11:00, has managed to beat in eight seconds the historic mark that Kenyan

had held since August 26, 2005

, the longest in history in the 10,000 meters.

At 24 years old, the Ugandan is one of the figures of the world fund: silver in 2017 and gold in 2019 in 10,000 in the World Cups, world champion of cross in 2019 and world record holder of 5,000 with a record that he achieved last month of August in Monaco.

He went to the Turia stadium track last night with the same shoes with which he pulverized the 5,000 clock and they are already historic.

"I have been able to fulfill my dream and I have made athletics history on the track," said the runner as soon as he crossed the finish line.

You already know what it is to beat a world record in Valencia, because you already did it in the 10k en route in 2019.

Today it has had the collaboration of hares such as Roy Hoornweg, Matt Ramsden, Kipkorir, El Khayami and Mc Sweyn and Ryan Gregson.

They split into two rounds to guide him through record-breaking times, but from kilometer five on, Cheptegei sought his mark alone.

And in the last kilometers he flew.

The last one closed with a partial time of 2:34.

Gidey, female record holder in 5,000

The Ethiopian athlete

will also go down in history in Valencia by breaking the world record of 5,000 sprint meters of her compatriot Tirunesh Dibaba, with an official time of 14:06:62, four seconds below the previous world record (14 : 11: 55 minutes) that no one had been able to cut in the last twelve years.

Gidey, silver in the 10,000 meters in the last World Cup in Doha, bronze in the World Cross World Cup and world record holder of 15 kilometers on the road, counted as luxury hares with the Spanish

, who was in charge of pulling the group in the first kilometer and a half, and the Kenyan

, world record holder of 3,000 obstacles, who led the Ethiopian to kilometer 3, which they already passed with seven seconds below the record in the third set.

In the last two kilometers, the 22-year-old athlete flew alone, who did not slow down, aware that by holding the cruising speed she would achieve the world record, which she finally managed to lower the previous record by just over four seconds.

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