Olympic 5000m and 10,000m champion Beatrice Chebet ended her year on a high by running a stunning 13:54* to shatter the world 5km record at the Cursa dels Nassos, a World Athletics Label road race, in Barcelona on Tuesday (31).
In doing so, the 24-year-old Kenyan bettered the previous record by 19 seconds. The two-time world cross-country champion, who holds the world 5000m record at 14:05.92, also became the first woman to beat 14 minutes for the distance on any surface, track or road.
Held in ideal weather conditions of 14C and no wind, and paced perfectly by Latvia’s Dmitrijs Sergojins, Chebet set out at a blistering pace, covering the opening kilometre in 2:46. Ethiopian duo Medina Eisa and Melknat Wudu, plus Uganda’s…