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Cheptegei smashes 10,000m track world record

Joshua Cheptegei broke the 10,000m track world record on Wednesday in Valencia with a time of 26mins 11.00 seconds. He lowered the previous mark of 26min 17.53sec set by Kenenisa Bekele in 2005 in Brussels. This was the 24-year-old…

Cheptegei breaks 5km world record

Uganda's long-distance runner Joshua Cheptegei lowered the 5km world record on Sunday with a time of 12 minutes 51 seconds and revealed he had set out to "really go for" breaking the sub 13 minutes barrier. The 10,000m world…