{"id":640,"date":"2022-02-18T11:46:29","date_gmt":"2022-02-18T11:46:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/gn\/?p=640"},"modified":"2022-02-18T11:46:29","modified_gmt":"2022-02-18T11:46:29","slug":"world-5k-road-records-ratified","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/gn\/news\/world-5k-road-records-ratified","title":{"rendered":"World 5k road records ratified"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/gn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Berihu-Aregawi.WR5k.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-641\" src=\"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/gn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Berihu-Aregawi.WR5k.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"580\" height=\"386\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/gn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Berihu-Aregawi.WR5k.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/gn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Berihu-Aregawi.WR5k-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/gn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Berihu-Aregawi.WR5k-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The world 5km records set by Ethiopia\u2019s Ejgayehu Taye and Berihu Aregawi last year have been ratified.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Ending their year at the Cursa dels Nassos 5km event in Barcelona on 31 December, Taye won in 14:19 to improve the women\u2019s mixed-race record by 24 seconds, while Aregawi ran 12:49 to take two seconds off the men\u2019s record.<\/p>\n<p>With the women and men starting at the same time, Taye was able to use some of the men in the field as pacemakers. She opened up a clear gap on Sweden\u2019s Meraf Bahta in the early stages and went on to win in 14:19, smashing the world record of 14:43 which had been set by Kenya\u2019s Beatrice Chepkoech in Monaco on 14 February 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Aregawi, meanwhile, had a pacemaker for company for the first kilometre or so, but was then out on his own. Crossing the finish line in 12:49, he improved the world record of 12:51 which had been set by Uganda\u2019s Joshua Cheptegei in Monaco on 16 February 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Women\u2019s world 5km road race record (mixed race)<br \/>\n14:19 Ejgayehu Taye (ETH) Barcelona 31 December 2021<\/p>\n<p>Men\u2019s world 5km road race record<br \/>\n12:49 Berihu Aregawi (ETH) Barcelona 31 December 2021<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world 5km records set by Ethiopia\u2019s Ejgayehu Taye and Berihu Aregawi last year have been ratified.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":641,"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":[102,7,1],"tags":[294,293,292,227],"class_list":["post-640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethiopia","category-featured","category-news","tag-5k-road","tag-berihu-aregawi","tag-ejgayehu-taye","tag-ethiopia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/gn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640","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=640"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/gn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":642,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/gn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640\/revisions\/642"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/gn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/gn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/gn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/gn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}