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14 hours ago
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Beatrice Chebet breaks 14-minute barrier to set 5000m world record at Prefontaine Classic
Kenya's Beatrice Chebet made history at the 2025 Prefontaine Classic by becoming the first woman to run the 5,000 meters in under 14 minutes, setting a new world record of 13:58.06 and surpassing Gudaf Tsegay's previous mark. read more Beatrice Chebet wins the women's 5,000m in a world record 13:58.06 during the 50th Prefontaine Classic at Hayward Field. Image: Reuters EUGENE, Ore: Kenyan Beatrice Chebet set a world record in the 5,000 meters, winning the event in 13 minutes, 58.06 seconds Saturday at the Prefontaine Classic. Chebet became the first woman to run under 14 minutes in the event, surpassing the previous record of 14:00.21 set by Ethiopian Gudaf Tsegay. Tsegay set the record at the 2023 Prefontaine Classic. Seemingly aware that the record was within reach, Chebet pushed the final 400 meters toward the finish. STORY CONTINUES BELOW THIS AD Agnes Jebet Ngetich second at Eugene's Hayward Field in 14:01.29 while Tsegay was third in 14:04.41. Chebet, 25, was the gold medalist in the 5,000 and 10,000 at the Paris Olympics, becoming just the third woman to win both. Chebet had the previous world best this year in the event, running 14:06.39 last month in Rome. 'After running in Rome, I said I have to prepare for a record, because in Rome I was just running to win a race, but after running 14:03, I said that I'm capable of running a world record,' she said Saturday. Chebet also holds the world record in the 10,000, which she set at last year's Prefontaine Classic, running in 28:54.14 to become the first woman to break 29 minutes in the event. The Prefontaine Classic is the lone U.S. stop on the Diamond League track and field series.
Straits Times
21 hours ago
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- Straits Times
Kenya's Kipyegon, Chebet break world records in Eugene
Sign up now: Get ST's newsletters delivered to your inbox Kenya's Beatrice Chebet smashed the women's 5,000 metres world record and compatriot Faith Kipyegon broke her own 1,500m record again as the Eugene Diamond League meet lived up to its billing on Saturday. Olympic champion Chebet ran 13 minutes 58.06 seconds to better the time set by Gudaf Tsegay by over two seconds, the Ethiopian's 14:00.21 obliterated when the Kenyan left Tsegay for dust with 200 metres to go as she sprinted for the line. Chebet looked in shock when she saw the time, adding to her world 10,000 metres record set in Eugene last year, but she had been threatening the record, running 14:03.69 in Rome last month. "I'm so happy, after running in Rome, I said I have to prepare for a record, because in Rome I was just running to win a race, but after running 14:03, I said that I'm capable of running a world record," Chebet said. "So, let me go back home, and then come to Eugene. When I was coming here to Eugene, I was coming to prepare to run a world record, and I said I have to try." Tsegay, along with Kenyan Agnes Jebet Ngetich, kept pace with Chebet for almost the entire race, but had no answer when Chebet kicked for home, and Jebet Ngetich finished second in 14:01.29, the third fastest time ever. The 50th Prefontaine Classic promised fireworks, and in the final race of the evening Kipyegon ran a time of three minutes 48.68 seconds, improving her previous world mark of 3:49.04 set in Paris last July. Kipyegon, triple Olympic champion over the distance, recently fell short in her attempt to become the first woman to run a mile in under four minutes, but the 31-year-old shook that disappointment off in style. The Kenyan upped the pace down the back straight, powering around the final bend and pushed for the line, her eyes wide in disbelief as she glanced at the clock as she broke the tape. Sweden's Mondo Duplantis failed in his bid to break his own world pole vault record for a 13th time. Duplantis, who recorded his best jump of 6.28 metres in Stockholm in June, faced little competition, with nobody left at 5.90, and after clearing six metres he attempted 6.29 but was unsuccessful in all three attempts. The men's 100m was dominated by Jamaican Olympic silver medallist Kishane Thompson, winning in a time of 9.85 seconds, one tenth of a second off his personal best set eight days ago, with Briton Zharnel Hughes in second. "I'm the only one that can stop me," Thompson said. "I don't say that to brag, but to be honest, once I better my execution, amazing things are going to happen." Olympic 400m metres hurdles champion and world record holder Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone took on the flat race at the same distance and held off a late surge from fellow-American Aaliyah Butler. American Yared Nuguse looked like threatening the world mile record before a late collapse saw him caught before the line by Dutchman Niels Laros. "I didn't get the record, but I'm still at a really good place right now," Nuguse said. REUTERS
NBC Sports
a day ago
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dos Santos wins Prefontaine Classic 400m hurdles
Alison dos Santos held off Olympic champion Rai Benjamin to win the men's 400m hurdles in a thrilling race from start to finish at the 50th Prefontaine Classic at Hayward Field on University of Oregon's campus in Eugene.
Straits Times
a day ago
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Kenyan Chebet smashes women's 5,000 metres world record
Sign up now: Get ST's newsletters delivered to your inbox Kenya's Beatrice Chebet smashed the women's 5,000 metres world record with a time of 13 minutes 58.06 seconds at the Eugene Diamond League meet on Saturday, eclipsing the previous record set at the same venue in 2023. Olympic champion Chebet bettered the time set by Gudaf Tsegay by over two seconds, the Ethiopian's 14:00.21 obliterated when the Kenyan left Tsegay for dead with 200 metres to go as she sprinted for the line. Chebet looked in shock when she saw the time, adding to her world 10,000 metres record set in Eugene last year, but she had been threatening the record, running 14:03.69 in Rome last month. Tsegay, along with Kenyan Agnes Jebet Ngetich, kept pace with Chebet for almost the entire race, but had no answer when Chebet kicked for home, and Jebet Ngetich finished second in 14:01.29, the third fastest time ever. The 50th Prefontaine Classic promised fireworks, although Sweden's Mondo Duplantis failed in his bid to break his own world pole vault record for a 13th time. Duplantis, who recorded his best jump of 6.28 metres in Stockholm in June, faced little competition, with nobody left at 5.90, and after clearing six metres he attempted 6.29 but was unsuccessful in all three attempts. The women's 100m hurdles featured world record holder Tobi Amusan and Olympic champion Masai Russell, but Jamaica's Ackera Nugent came out on top, ahead of Amusan, with former world record holder Kendra Harrison third. Top stories Swipe. Select. Stay informed. Singapore Asean needs 'bolder reforms' to attract investments in more fragmented global economy: PM Wong Singapore CPF members can make housing, retirement and health insurance plans with new digital platform Singapore CPF's central philosophy of self-reliance remains as pertinent as ever: SM Lee Singapore Credit reports among personal data of 190,000 breached, put for sale on Dark Web; IT vendor fined Asia Dalai Lama hopes to live beyond 130 years, much longer than predicted Singapore Tan Cheng Bock, Hazel Poa step down from PSP leadership; party launches 'renewal plan' Sport Liverpool will move on after Jota's tragic death, but he will never be forgotten Singapore Rock climbing fan suddenly could not jump, get up from squats "I knew that with the ladies I would be lined up with that I have to be at my A-game," Nugent said. "So, I came out here today and followed the instructions of my coach and I executed." REUTERS
NBC Sports
2 days ago
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Athing Mu-Nikolayev eager for return to Hayward Field for 50th Prefontaine Classic
Athing Mu-Nikolayev hasn't raced an 800m in nearly a year, but is ready to run at the 50th Prefontaine Classic at Hayward Field and on a track where she has authored so much history already at age 23. 'The lead up to this has been really great for me,' she said Thursday. 'I've definitely been in a good spot mentally. It's obviously not the most convenient for it to be my first 800m (since last July 19) in this really fast race, but I think I've kind of gotten over that point and just recognized that, hey, we are 1,000 percent really great where we're at with training. This is a great field. This is an opportunity for me.' Mu-Nikolayev will line up Saturday along with reigning world champion Mary Moraa of Kenya and Olympic silver medalist Tsige Duguma of Ethiopia, among others, at Pre (NBC and Peacock, 4-6 p.m. ET). Already at the new Hayward Field, Mu-Nikolayev has broken the NCAA 400m record (49.57, 2021), made her first Olympic team in a personal-best time (2021, en route to Tokyo Olympic 800m gold), won a world title (2022) and broken the American record in the 800m (1:54.97, 2023). She was the youngest U.S. woman to win individual Olympic track and field gold (age 19) since Wyomia Tyus in the 100m at the 1964 Tokyo Games. She is the youngest woman in history to own Olympic and world titles in an individual track and field event. Her Hayward magic wasn't there in 2024, however. She tore a hamstring about six weeks before the Olympic Trials. Then in the trials final in Eugene, Mu-Nikolayev and Raevyn Rogers' legs appeared to make contact about 200 meters into the race. Mu-Nikolayev fell. She got up and finished ninth. Her Olympic title defense was over before she could board a plane to Paris. She still went to the French capital with her training group and was a few miles away from Stade de France when the Olympic women's 800m final took place, according to the Southern California News Group. 'It was very hard,' said her coach, Bobby Kersee, according to the report. 'My philosophy of coaching is to put her right back in it, right away. And she tolerated me as a coach. It was tough for me, and it was tough for her.' A month after the Games, Mu-Nikolayev announced that she and Yegor Nikolayev were engaged. They got married this past March. Then she returned to competition with low-key races in April (using a 5000m as a 3000m workout) and May (1500m wins in 4:21 and 4:10). So Saturday will be Mu-Nikolayev's first time in a top-level meet since the Olympic Trials. She called it 'a really anticipated race,' but one that she's stressing over with results-based goals. 'Getting back to kind of the basics of what has made me one of the best 800m runners,' she said. 'Just feeling that on Saturday, I think, is the most important thing rather than hitting a specific time.' Nick Zaccardi,
