Cheptegei gunning for 5,000m-10,000m double at Tokyo Games
Diamond League - Monaco
(Reuters) – Ugandan Joshua Cheptegei says he is targeting the 5,000m-10,000m double at the Tokyo Olympics after breaking the world records in both distances this year.
The 24-year-old set a new 10,000 mark of 26 minutes, 11.00 seconds at the Valencia World Record Day event in October to beat Kenenisa Bekele’s time of 26:17.53 set in 2005.
At the Monaco Diamond League meeting two months earlier he had also bettered Bekele’s 16-year-old 5,000m record by almost two seconds with a time of 12:35.36.
If Cheptegei wins gold medals in both events at next year’s postponed Games, he would become only the eighth man to complete the double.