Sam Atkin broke Marc Scott’s British report for 5km with 13:16 in Lille on Sunday (March 19). Ending sixth in a race received by Ethiopian Yomif Kejelcha in 12:50, Atkin stormed by the end line in France to take 4 seconds off Scott’s mark.
Scott ran 13:20 when he received one of many Podium occasions in Barrowford in 2020, however right here in Lille the 30-year-old Atkin discovered himself chasing three Ethiopians and two Kenyans house.
Kejelcha, a two-time world indoor 3000m champion and world indoor mile record-holder, missed Berihu Aregawi’s world report, set in Herzogenaurach final yr, by only one second.
Kejelcha drew away from his rivals mid-race to win comfortably as Kenya’s Reynold Cheruiyot Kipkorir was second in 13:04 with Ethiopia’s Telahun Haile Bekele third in 13:07.
The US-based Atkin has posted a spate of quick occasions within the final couple of years similar to 13:03.64 for 5000m indoors, 27:26.58 for 10,000m and an outright UK 3000m report of seven:31.97 set indoors in Boston in January.
Yomif Kejelcha (Max Delobel)
On a busy day for highway racing with marathons in Rome, Barcelona and Seoul, plus the NYC Half, Kenya’s Caroline Nyaga received the ladies’s 5km in Lille in 14:35 as she completed narrowly forward of Ethiopia’s Mekides Bekele.
Lille additionally noticed some quick 10km occasions with Ethiopia’s Gemechu Dida clocking 27:12 to win the boys’s race forward of Emmanuel Kiprop whereas Kenya’s Dorcas Kimeli ran 30:48 forward of Mercyline Cherono within the girls’s class.
Patrick Mosin received the half-marathon in 59:31 from Alfred Barkach’s 59:32 as Emily Chebet, coming back from a doping ban, received the ladies’s race in 67:52.
UK all-time 5km rankings
13:16 Sam Atkin – Lille, 202313:20 Marc Scott – Barrowford, 202013:26 Alex Yee – Barrowford, 202013:27 Nick Goolab – Monaco, 202013:30 Rob Denmark – Dublin, 199613:30 Mohamed Farah – Stranorlar, 200613:31 Mike McLeod – Newcastle, 198413:31 Keith Cullen – Dublin, 199613:32 David Lewis – Newcastle, 198413:33 Eamonn Martin – Newcastle, 1985
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