{"id":10769,"date":"2025-02-17T12:30:06","date_gmt":"2025-02-17T12:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/jacob-kiplimo-breaks-half-marathon-world-record-by-48-seconds\/"},"modified":"2025-02-17T12:30:06","modified_gmt":"2025-02-17T12:30:06","slug":"jacob-kiplimo-breaks-half-marathon-world-record-by-48-seconds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/jacob-kiplimo-breaks-half-marathon-world-record-by-48-seconds\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacob Kiplimo breaks half marathon world record by 48 seconds"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Uganda’s Jacob Kiplimo became the first person to run a half marathon below 57 minutes as he shattered the world record by 48 seconds in Barcelona.<\/b><\/p>\n

The 24-year-old ran 56 minutes and 42 seconds to eclipse Ethiopian Yomif Kejelcha’s previous world record of 57:30 set in Valencia in October.<\/a><\/p>\n

Kiplimo’s time is the best single improvement on the men’s world half-marathon record.<\/p>\n

“I am very excited about what I did today,” said the former 10,000m Olympic and World Championships bronze medallist.<\/p>\n

“I wanted to have a great race, but I didn’t expect to break the world record.<\/p>\n

“I started very strong in the first two kilometres to get away from my rivals. As the kilometres passed and I saw that I was going at record pace, I told myself that I had to maintain that pace no matter what it took.”<\/p>\n

He also set a world best of 39:47 for 15km during the World Athletics event, which was held in perfect conditions of 13\u00baC with no wind.<\/p>\n

Kiplimo’s compatriot Geoffrey Kamworor finished second (58:44) ahead of Kenya’s Samuel Mailu (59:40).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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Uganda’s Jacob Kiplimo became the first person to run a half marathon below 57 minutes as he shattered the world record by 48 seconds in Barcelona. The 24-year-old ran 56 minutes and 42 seconds to eclipse Ethiopian Yomif Kejelcha’s previous world record of 57:30 set in Valencia in October. Kiplimo’s time is the best single […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10770,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10769"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10771,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10769\/revisions\/10771"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}