{"id":1189,"date":"2021-06-09T09:29:31","date_gmt":"2021-06-09T09:29:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/track\/?p=1189"},"modified":"2021-06-09T09:29:31","modified_gmt":"2021-06-09T09:29:31","slug":"letesenbet-gidey-sets-10000m-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/track\/news\/letesenbet-gidey-sets-10000m-record","title":{"rendered":"Letesenbet Gidey sets 10000m record"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Letesenbet<\/a><\/p>\n

Netherlands – Just two days after Sifan Hassan clocked a world 10,000m<\/a> record of 29:06.82 in Hengelo, Ethiopia\u2019s Letesenbet Gidey \u2013 competing on the same track in the Dutch city \u2013 improved the mark by five seconds with 29:01.03* to win the Ethiopian Trials on Tuesday (8).<\/p>\n

Letesenbet Gidey sets new 10000m World Record<\/h3>\n

The world silver medallist, who last year set a world 5000m record of 14:06.62, was a runaway winner, finishing more than a minute ahead of Tsigie Gebreselama (30:06.01).<\/p>\n

Ababel Yeshaneh tracked Gidey for most of the way as they followed the blue lights on the inside of the track, the Wavelight technology<\/a> moving at world record pace.<\/p>\n

Yeshaneh dropped back in the latter stages, but Gidey continued her metronomic pace, churning out 72-second laps.<\/p>\n

Gidey went through the bell just a couple of seconds inside 28 minutes, indicating she\u2019d need a final lap of about 68 seconds to break Hassan\u2019s mark. Despite having to navigate around a field of lapped runners, Gidey powered around the final circuit and stopped the clock at 29:01.03.<\/p>\n

\u201cI expected to run a world record,\u201d said the 23-year-old Ethiopian<\/a>, who becomes the first woman to hold both the 5000m and 10,000m world records since Ingrid Kristiansen did so from 1986-1993. \u201cI\u2019d like to try to break the world record again and break 29 minutes.\u201d<\/p>\n

Yeshaneh later dropped out, but Gebreselama came through to take second place in 30:06.01. Tsehay Gemechu was third in 30:19.29.<\/p>\n

Elsewhere in Hengelo, Gudaf Tsegay produced the fifth-fastest time in history to win the women\u2019s 5000m in 14:13.32. Steeplechase specialist Getnet Wale won the men\u2019s event in 12:53.28.<\/p>\n

Selemon Barega won a close men\u2019s 10,000m from Yomif Kejelcha, 26:49.51 to 26:49.73. Unheralded Werkwuha Getachew smashed through the two-minute barrier for the first time in her career to win the women\u2019s 800m in a national record of 1:56.67, while Freweyni Hailu won the women\u2019s 1500m in a world-leading 3:57.33.<\/p>\n

*Subject to the usual ratification procedure<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Netherlands – Just two days after Sifan Hassan clocked a world 10,000m record of 29:06.82 in Hengelo, Ethiopia\u2019s Letesenbet Gidey \u2013 competing on the same track in the Dutch city \u2013 improved the mark by five seconds with 29:01.03* to win the Ethiopian Trials on Tuesday (8).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1190,"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":[168,686,8,4,1],"tags":[627,693,675,694],"class_list":["post-1189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-10000m","category-et","category-events","category-featured","category-news","tag-10000m","tag-hengelo","tag-letesenbet-gidey","tag-world-record"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/track\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/track\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/track\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/track\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/track\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1189"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/track\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1274,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/track\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1189\/revisions\/1274"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/track\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/track\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/track\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/track\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}