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Jacob Kiplimo units new half marathon file, finishes in below 57 minutes
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Jacob Kiplimo units new half marathon file, finishes in below 57 minutes

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By Tycoon Herald 3 Min Read Published February 16, 2025
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Jacob Kiplimo units new half marathon file, finishes in below 57 minutes

Race winner Jacob Kiplimo breaks the world file on the eDreams Mitja Marato de Barcelona, on Sunday in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.

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Jacob Kiplimo of Uganda ran with a vengeance in Barcelona on Sunday — masterfully reclaiming the half marathon world file after the title was taken from him final 12 months.

“What a day!” he wrote on Instagram. “Today everything has been perfect, the course, the weather and of course myself.”

Kiplimo, 24, completed in 56:42 on the 2025 Barcelona Half Marathon — shattering the earlier half marathon file of 57:30 set by Ethiopia’s Yomif Kejelcha final 12 months in Valencia. On the time, Kejelcha had narrowly overwhelmed Kiplimo’s 2021 file by only one second.

In Barcelona, Kiplimo considerably outpaced Kejelcha’s file by a formidable 48 seconds, marking the “greatest single improvement on the men’s world half marathon record,” in response to World Athletics.

To take action, Kiplimo was averaging about 13.86 miles per hour, or a mile each 4 minutes and 20 seconds.

Justine Huang has no regrets from running the 2024 New York City Marathon drunk.

Kenyan long-distance runner Geoffrey Kamworor took second, ending practically two minutes after Kiplimo with a time of 58:44. Samwel Mailu, additionally from Kenya, secured third, clocking in at 59:40.

Kiplimo is the son of two farmers from Kween, a rural district in jap Uganda. To get to high school, Kiplimo would run over 3 miles at an altitude of 6,200 toes, World Athletics reported.

He entered aggressive operating via his older brothers, who had been additionally athletes. “To my mind, I said: ‘I want to be like them,'” he advised World Athletics.

His first official race was in 2015, the place he took first place in a range trial for the World Mountain Operating Championships. Afterward, he moved to Italy to coach below a brand new coach.

Two years later, Kiplimo returned to Uganda to compete within the World Cross Nation Championships. There, hundreds of Ugandans cheered on as he stormed to victory and claimed gold, in response to a World Athletics profile. The win made Kiplimo a hometown hero. After that, he determined to remain in Uganda slightly than practice in Italy.

Belgian ultra runner Hilde Dosogne, center, is cheered on as she crosses the finish line during her 366th consecutive marathon in Ghent, Belgium, on Dec. 31, 2024.

Kiplimo is a two-time world cross nation champion. He earned a bronze medal within the males’s 10,000 meters on the Tokyo Olympics in 2021. His marathon debut might be this April in London.

On Sunday, Joyciline Jepkosgei of Kenya gained the ladies’s race in Barcelona, reaching a private better of 1:04:13.

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