{"id":58114,"date":"2022-02-27T13:27:05","date_gmt":"2022-02-27T18:27:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/?p=58114"},"modified":"2022-02-27T13:58:23","modified_gmt":"2022-02-27T18:58:23","slug":"ethiopias-yalemzerf-yehualaw-smashes-world-record-in-spain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/58114","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopia&#8217;s\u00a0 Yalemzerf Yehualaw smashes world record in Spain\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ethiopia&#8217;s\u00a0 Yalemzerf Yehualaw<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>smashed the women\u2019s 10km road world record in Castellon, Spain on Sunday (27 February), winning the race in a stunning time of 29:14 minutes.\u00a0<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The world half marathon bronze medalist<b>\u00a0<\/b>averaged 2:55 minutes per kilometer to better the previous mark by 24 seconds.<\/p>\n<p>Tokyo 2020 Olympic10,000m silver medallist Kalkidan Gezahagn\u00a0of Bahrain had held the world record with a time of 29:38 at The Giants Geneva 10K run on 3 October 2021. .<\/p>\n<p>Kenyans Vicoty Chepngeno\u00a0finished one minute 59 seconds behind the Ethiopian in 30:14 for second while Mercy Cherono\u00a0was third in 30.48.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday 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,\u201d said the 22-year old Ethiopian, who last year became the second fastest women\u2019s half-marathon runner in history.<\/p>\n<p>She clocked 1:03:51 in Valencia when her compatriot Letesenbet Gidey broke the world record.<\/p>\n<p>Yehualaw broke the half marathon world record last year by 19 seconds, although the time was not ratified by\u00a0World Athletics\u00a0as the course was 54 metres short.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ethiopia&#8217;s\u00a0 Yalemzerf Yehualaw\u00a0smashed the women\u2019s 10km road world record in Castellon, Spain on Sunday (27 February), winning the race in a stunning time of 29:14 minutes.\u00a0\u00a0 The world half marathon bronze medalist\u00a0averaged 2:55 minutes per kilometer to better the previous<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span> <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/58114\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":211,"featured_media":58115,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[4993],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Yalemzerf.jpeg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58114"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/211"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58114"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58116,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58114\/revisions\/58116"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}