{"id":59267,"date":"2026-08-23T13:48:01","date_gmt":"2026-08-23T13:48:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/ethiopias-yomif-kejelcha-breaks-mens-half-marathon-world-record\/"},"modified":"2026-08-23T13:48:01","modified_gmt":"2026-08-23T13:48:01","slug":"ethiopias-yomif-kejelcha-breaks-mens-half-marathon-world-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/ethiopias-yomif-kejelcha-breaks-mens-half-marathon-world-record\/","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopia’s Yomif Kejelcha breaks men’s half marathon world record"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Ethiopia’s Yomif Kejelcha has broken the men’s half marathon world record, winning a World Athletics road race in Buenos Aires on Sunday in 56 minutes 51 seconds.<\/b><\/p>\n

The 29-year-old previously held the record with a time of 57:30, set in Valencia in October 2024, but lost that to Uganda’s Jacob Kiplimo in March<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Kiplimo ran 57:20 in Lisbon earlier this year but Kejelcha has now knocked 29 seconds off that time to regain the record, subject to official ratification. <\/p>\n

The world track silver medallist in the 10,000m also holds the world record for a men’s 10,000m road race. <\/p>\n

He also became one of the first men to run a sub-two hour marathon in record-eligible conditions earlier this year when finishing second behind Kenya’s Sebastian Sawe in the London Marathon. <\/p>\n

Sawe won the record-breaking race in 1:59:30<\/a>, beating Kejelcha by just 11 seconds.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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Ethiopia’s Yomif Kejelcha has broken the men’s half marathon world record, winning a World Athletics road race in Buenos Aires on Sunday in 56 minutes 51 seconds. The 29-year-old previously held the record with a time of 57:30, set in Valencia in October 2024, but lost that to Uganda’s Jacob Kiplimo in March. Kiplimo ran […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":59268,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59267"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59269,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59267\/revisions\/59269"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}