Looks muggy, doubtful for a 5k wr. I think sub 14:20 in these conditions would be impressive.
Wow, I thought 14:20 would be good in these conditions, 14:09.XX is really impressive. Better wetter and maybe a pacer that can go to 3k and I think sub 14 is there.
They got very high quality pacers honestly, as far as pacers go. It’s just exceedingly hard to find pacers for a women’s sub-14 5k.
Yeah, you basically need someone with sub-14:30 ability, which is pretty hard to find. I wonder if Akidor (also Rosa) was in her form of a couple months ago when she won a DL, if she’d have been enlisted.
Darn. Looks like we won't be using the following 5000m recap.
Beatrice Chebet Breaks 14:00 Barrier - Runs 13:** To Break 5000 World Record The incredible 2024 campaign of Kenya’s Beatrice Chebet continued today at the Weltklasse Zürich Diamond League track & field meet as the 24-year-old Kenyan made history once again by becoming the first woman to break the 14:00 barrier in the 5000 meters. Chebet ran ** to win and set a new world record, eclipsing the old mark of 14:00.21 set by Ethiopia’s Gudaf Tsegay last September.
Chebet is the third different woman to break the world record in this event in the last 15 months as Faith Kipyegon ran 14:05.20 in June 2023 before Tsegay lowered the record three months later at the Diamond League final. Today’s 5000 mark came 103 days after Chebet made history in the 10,000 as on May 25 she became the first woman to break 29:00 on the track by running 28:54.14 in Eugene. In between, she won double 5,000 and 10,000 gold at the Olympics in Paris.
Quick Take: Chebet’s 2024 season will go down as one of the greatest ever by a female distance runner
Chebet was hardly unknown prior to this year, earning a silver medal in the 5,000 at the 2022 Worlds and a bronze in 2023 (as well as a win at 2023 World XC). But she was overshadowed by women like Faith Kipyegon, Gudaf Tsegay, Letesenbet Gidey, and Sifan Hassan, all of them global champions on the track and current/former world record holders. But the 24-year-old Chebet also had more room for improvement given she was the youngest of the group by far (Gidey is 26, Tsegay 27, Kipyegon 30, and Hassan 31). Now Chebet has grabbed the spotlight for herself with one of the greatest seasons in the history of women’s distance running. Chebet won World XC in March, swept the Olympic 5,000 and 10,000 in August, and has now broken world records in the 5,000 and 10,000. And she did not just break those records, she broke some major barriers as she became the first woman under 29:00 in the 10,000 and 14:00 in the 5,000.
Chebet has been beaten twice this year – she was 4th at the Kenyan XC championships in March, nine seconds back of winner Agnes Ngetich, and was 2nd in the 5,000 at the Kenyan Olympic trials, six seconds back of Faith Kipyegon. Both times, she made the team and won the big prize at World XC and the Olympics.
The natural question: is Chebet’s season the best ever by a female distance runner? She has some stiff competition. In 2008, Tirunesh Dibaba won World XC, swept the Olympic 5k/10k, and broke the 5k world record, just like Chebet. Dibaba did not break the 10k world record like Chebet, but she ran 29:54 in the Olympic final, which was the second-fastest time in history behind only Wang Junxia’s highly suspect 29:31 from 1993. You could have made a case for Dibaba’s time as the “clean world record.”
Hope you're paying Jon or the intern anyway for this.
If the break in the rain continues the conditions could be perfect for a 5k WR. There’s a theory that immediately after rain the air is positively charged with EPO ions.
Shhhhh.....you'll awake Malmo, the sleeping giant.
Downvoters, can someone explain how 14:47 is a good time when you've run 14:23? This would be like Grant Fisher running 13:10
She ran *14:26* four years ago and has had multiple serious surgeries since then. It’s nearing the end of the season after trying to peak for the Trials and Paris. She placed well, beating everyone she should have and more.
Fisher, by the way, ran a 7:49 3k for last place the last time we saw him.
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Shhhhh.....you'll awake Malmo, the sleeping giant.
Let go of your obsession. Its creepy.
Ahhhh, sorry, didnt mean any harm, honestly. I know you're even more of a weather nerd than myself. And in a way, I was alerting you to the referenced post in case you wanted to chime in.