10K World Record: Ethiopia’s Yalemzerf Yehualaw smashed the women’s 10km road record with a time of 29 minutes and 14 seconds in the mixed race at the World Athletics Label road race in Castellon, Spain on Sunday. Follow 10K World Record updates on Insidesport.IN
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10K World Record: Ethiopia’s Yalemzerf Yehualaw smashes 10km road world record in Spain
The 22-year-old shaved 24 seconds off the previous mark of 29 minutes and 38 seconds set by Bahrain’s Kalkidan Gezahegne, also born in Ethiopia, last year.
Rising star @YalemzerfY 🇪🇹 breaks the world 10km record* at the @MaratoCastello 10km, clocking 29:14.
In doing so, the world half marathon bronze medallist becomes the first woman in history to dip under the 29:30 and 29:20 barriers on the roads 👇
— World Athletics (@WorldAthletics) February 27, 2022
“Today a dream came true. I felt really great in the race, the first 5km was very fast, I was struggling a little bit in the second 5km but I was still able to maintain a high pace,” Yehualaw said.
Yehualaw broke the half marathon world record last year by 19 seconds, although the time was not ratified by World Athletics as the course was 54 metres short.
10K World Record: Ethiopia’s Yalemzerf Yehualaw smashes 10km road world record in Spain
