{"id":1965,"date":"2020-10-08T15:43:28","date_gmt":"2020-10-08T15:43:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pearlfm.co.ug\/?p=1965"},"modified":"2022-01-19T12:06:33","modified_gmt":"2022-01-19T12:06:33","slug":"cheptegei-breaks-10000m-world-record-in-valencia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/2020\/10\/08\/cheptegei-breaks-10000m-world-record-in-valencia\/","title":{"rendered":"Cheptegei Breaks 10,000m World Record in Valencia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Uganda\u2019s star athlete Joshua Kiprui Cheptegei has broken the men&#8217;s 10,000m world record.<\/p>\n<p>Cheptegei who also broke the world 5,000m record in <a href=\"http:\/\/pearlfm.co.ug\/?p=1305\">August<\/a> this year was in good form to cover the 10,000m distance in 26:11:00 at the NN Valencia World Record Day at the Turia Stadium in Spain on Wednesday evening.<\/p>\n<p>He broke Ethiopian Kenenisa Bekele\u2019s record of 26:17:53 that he set in Brussels in 2005. Cheptegei who is also the Cross Country champion has re-written history breaking two records in a space of seven weeks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis performance means something great to me because we are trying to re-write history. The sports lovers in the world should know that the track is still exciting,\u201d added Cheptegei in an interview after the race at the Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>In the earlier women\u2019s race Ethiopia\u2019s Letesenbet Gidney smashed the 5,000m women\u2019s record as she set a record of 14:06:65. The former record of 14:11:15 was held by another Ethiopian Genzebe Dibaba Keneni Dibaba she set in 2008.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Uganda\u2019s star athlete Joshua Kiprui Cheptegei has broken the men&#8217;s 10,000m world record. Cheptegei who also broke the world 5,000m record in August this year was in good form to cover the 10,000m distance in 26:11:00 at the NN Valencia World Record Day at the Turia Stadium in Spain on Wednesday evening. He broke Ethiopian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1966,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1965","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1965"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3613,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1965\/revisions\/3613"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}