Kenya’s Joyciline Jepkosgei becomes first woman to break 30:00 for road 10K

Kenya’s Joyciline Jepkosgei bettered her own 10K road world record on Saturday, and in doing so became the first woman to break 30 minutes off the track.

The 23-year-old ran 29:43 at the Prague Grand Prix in the Czech Republic on Saturday and set a new world best for the road 5K splitting 14:32 through halfway. The previous 5K road best was 14:46, according to the Association of Road Racing Statisticians.

The current women’s 10,000m world record is 29:17.45, a record which Almaz Ayana set at the 2016 Rio Olympics. Track and road racing records are kept separately by the IAAF, the world’s governing body.

World 10km record of 29:43 for Joyciline Jepkosgei in Prague. She set a world best for 5km of 14:33 en route to that win.

— Jon Mulkeen (@Statman_Jon) September 9, 2017

Jepkosgei held the previous 10K road world record, which she accomplished during the Prague Half-Marathon. In that race, she broke four world records including 10K (30:04), 15K, 20K and the half-marathon (1:04:52) marks.

Světový rekord v Praze?Joyciline Jepkosgei?World record in Prague#PragueGrandPrix #WorldRecord #ctsport pic.twitter.com/f6S2VgUfMB

— Žaneta Peřinová (@ZanetaPerinova) September 9, 2017

Joyciline Jepkosgei set the new 10K world record among women (29:43) at the Birell #PragueGrandPrix 2017 | #RunCzech #RunCzechRacing pic.twitter.com/VOgorSpBXX

— RunCzech (@RunCzech) September 9, 2017

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