{"id":10756,"date":"2016-09-27T16:39:54","date_gmt":"2016-09-27T20:39:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/?p=10756"},"modified":"2016-09-27T16:39:54","modified_gmt":"2016-09-27T20:39:54","slug":"ethiopias-almaz-ayanas-rio-olympic-record-10000-meter-win-gets-iaaf-ratification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/10756","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopia’s Almaz Ayana’s Rio Olympic Record 10,000 Meter Win Gets IAAF Ratification"},"content":{"rendered":"

The International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF<\/a>) has ratified Ethiopia’s Almaz Ayana’s record-breaking 10,000-meter run which claimed Africa’s first gold medal at the just ended Rio Olympic games.<\/p>\n

The IAAF on Tuesday validated Ayana’s world record 10,000-meter- race. The 24-year-old’s finish time of 29 minutes and 17.45 seconds<\/a> crushed the 23-year-old record of 14.46 seconds.<\/p>\n

China’s Wang Junxia<\/a> held the previous 10,000-meter record with a time of 29 minutes and 31.78 seconds which she set in 1993 in Germany. In February, Wang admitted to being part of a Chinese government-sponsored doping program, The Telegraph reported.<\/p>\n

Ayana, who also set a world record in June for the fastest 10,00-meter debut race, defeated Ethiopia’s Tirunesh Dibaba and Kenya’s Vivian Cheruiyot to take gold in Rio.<\/p>\n

Ayana’s outstanding victory earned Ethiopia’s its only gold medal; she also became the first woman<\/a> to break a 10,000-meter world record at an Olympic Games event, BBC reported.<\/p>\n

The IAAF also ratified the Men’s 400-meter world record set by South African athlete Wayde van Niekerk in Rio.<\/p>\n

The athletics body further authorized Poland’s Anita Wlodarczyk’s 82.29-meter throw Women’s hammer Rio record<\/a>. Anita’s women’s hammer record throw earned her gold in Rio.<\/p>\n

[Photo by Giulio Gigante<\/a>\/CC BY-SA 2.0<\/a>]<\/p>\n

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