{"id":594,"date":"2020-02-17T12:23:06","date_gmt":"2020-02-17T12:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/gn\/?p=594"},"modified":"2020-03-03T12:31:30","modified_gmt":"2020-03-03T12:31:30","slug":"joshua-cheptegei-new-5k-wr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/gn\/news\/joshua-cheptegei-new-5k-wr","title":{"rendered":"Joshua Cheptegei new 5k WR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/gn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Joshua-Cheptegei-5km.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-595\" src=\"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/gn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Joshua-Cheptegei-5km.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"580\" height=\"386\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/gn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Joshua-Cheptegei-5km.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/gn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Joshua-Cheptegei-5km-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/gn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Joshua-Cheptegei-5km-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Joshua Cheptegei shattered the world record in the 5km, clocking 12:51* at the Monaco Run 5km in the Mediterranean Principality today (16 February).<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Running alone from the start, the 23-year-old Ugandan smashed through the event&#8217;s 13-minute barrier, clipping a massive 27 seconds from the previous record of 13:18 set by Kenya&#8217;s Rhonex Kipruto en route to his 10km world record in Valencia on 12 January.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWow, this is a really great,&#8221; said Cheptegei, the 2019 world 10,000m champion, who was making his 2020 racing debut.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I had sub 13 minutes in my mind today so when my legs felt good during the race I decided to really go for it. To take this many seconds off the record makes me very happy and is a great first test for me in an important season.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jimmy Gressier of France was second in 13:18, to break the European record of 13:29 set by Julien Wanders in this race last year.<\/p>\n<p>World Athletics<\/p>\n<p>*pending the usual ratification procedures<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joshua Cheptegei shattered the world record in the 5km, clocking 12:51* at the Monaco Run 5km in the Mediterranean Principality today (16 February).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":595,"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":[269,7,72,1],"tags":[274,275],"class_list":["post-594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-5k","category-featured","category-kenya","category-news","tag-joshua-cheptegei","tag-wr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/gn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594","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=594"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/gn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":596,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/gn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594\/revisions\/596"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/gn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/gn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/gn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/gn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}