African SportOct 7, 2020

Breaking News: Chepetegei Breaks Another Bekele 15-Year World Record

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Oct 7, 20202 min readOct 7, 2020

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By: Kayiira Jackson Joshua Cheptegei again whitewashed Kenenisa Bekele 15-year old World record in 10000m race. While appearing in NN Valencia World Record day event held in Valencia Spain, Cheptegei won the race after running 10000m in 26:11:02 time to phase off Kenenisa Bekele’s 26:17:53 record time set in 2005. “HISTORY!!!! @joshuacheptege1 has set a […]

By: Kayiira Jackson

Joshua Cheptegei again whitewashed Kenenisa Bekele 15-year old World record in 10000m race.

While appearing in NN Valencia World Record day event held in Valencia Spain, Cheptegei won the race after running 10000m in 26:11:02 time to phase off Kenenisa Bekele’s 26:17:53 record time set in 2005.

“HISTORY!!!!

@joshuacheptege1 has set a new 10000m World Record 26:11.02. What a beautiful sight! Amazing.

Uganda 🇺🇬 to the WORLD!”

The same Cheptegei who broken the 16-year world record in 5000m race set by Bekele in 2004. He did this in Monaco Diamond League race.

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