{"id":496,"date":"2017-02-10T11:19:58","date_gmt":"2017-02-10T11:19:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/gn\/?p=496"},"modified":"2017-02-10T11:19:58","modified_gmt":"2017-02-10T11:19:58","slug":"peres-jepchirchir-sets-record-at-the-rak-half-marathon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/gn\/news\/peres-jepchirchir-sets-record-at-the-rak-half-marathon","title":{"rendered":"Peres Jepchirchir sets Record at the RAK Half Marathon"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nRas al-Khaimah, UAE – The RAK Half marathon yet again produced a world record, Kenya’s Peres Jepchirchir set a new world record* today,with a time of 1:05:06.<\/p>\n

Peres Jepchirchir World Record at the RAK Half Marathon<\/h3>\n

The 23-year-old Kenyan, who won the world title over the distance in 2016, knocked three seconds from the previous record set by her compatriot Florence Kiplagat in Barcelona two years ago.<\/p>\n

On the way to this unexpected mark \u2013she suffered from pneumonia for two months at the end of 2016- Jepchirchir also clocked the 1:01:40 at 20km, the fastest ever in a mixed race, 14 seconds faster than Kiplagat’s performance, also set in Barcelona.<\/p>\n

Behind her, three-time RAK champion Mary Keitany smashed her own best, and very nearly the old world record, with a 1:05:13 clocking, while Joyciline Jepkosgei ensured a Kenyan clean sweep, crossing the newly positioned finish line in 1:06:08, a personal best by almost three minutes.<\/p>\n

In the men\u2019s contest, IAAF World Half Marathon Championship and World Cross Country silver medallist Bedan Karoki, so often the bridesmaid on road, track and cross-country, surged to victory over the last three kilometres, in a time of 59:10.<\/p>\n

Karoki richly deserved the win and the four-second personal best, having contributed enormously to the fast tempo being maintained in the second half of the race, once the pacemakers had stepped aside.<\/p>\n

In second, last year\u2019s fastest 10,000m runner Yigrem Demelash of Ethiopia, clocked 59:19, a lifetime best by 29 seconds, while the remarkable Augustine Choge, in only his third ever half marathon outing, also broached new ground with 59:26.<\/p>\n

source IAAF<\/em><\/p>\n

RAK Half Marathon Leading Results<\/strong>:
\nMEN –
\n1. Bedan Karoki, KEN 59:10
\n2. Yigrem Demelash, ETH 59:19
\n3. Augustine Choge, KEN 59:26
\n4. Solomon Yego, KEN 59:50
\n5. Nguse Amlosom, ERI, 1:00:04<\/p>\n

WOMEN –
\n1. Peres Jepchirchir, KEN 1:05:06
\n2. Mary Keitany, KEN, 1:05:13
\n3. Joyciline Jepkosgei, KEN, 1:06:08
\n4. Jemina Sumgong, KEN, 1:06:43
\n5. Tirunesh Dibaba, ETH, 1:06:50<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ras al-Khaimah, UAE – The RAK Half marathon yet again produced a world record, Kenya’s Peres Jepchirchir set a new world record* today,with a time of 1:05:06.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":498,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[27,7,106,72,1],"tags":[237,238],"class_list":["post-496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","category-featured","category-half","category-kenya","category-news","tag-peres-jepchirchir","tag-rak-half"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/gn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/gn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/gn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/gn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/gn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=496"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/gn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":499,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/gn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496\/revisions\/499"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/gn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/gn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/gn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/gn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}