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Kenya’s Joshua Belet and Ethiopia’s Meseret Belete won the 47th edition of the Amsterdam Marathon on Sunday. The 25-year-old runner won with an official time of 2:04:18, above the course record of 2:03:39 set by Ethiopian athlete Tamirat Tola in 2021. In the women’s contest, Belete won the 42.195-kilometer race with a time of 2:18:21.
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On Tuesday letesenbet Gidey broke the 5000m world record at the Ethiopian Olympic Trials in Hengelo, Netherlands. (yes, the Ethiopian Trials are being held in the Netherlands). She took 5.79 seconds off Sifan Hassan’s record from Sunday. (Getty Images)
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Ethiopian Letesenbet Gidey lowered the women’s 10,000m world record, two days after Sifan Hassan broke it on the same track in Hengelo, Netherlands.
Gidey, who on Oct. 7 broke the 5000m world record, clocked 29:01.03 at the Ethiopian Olympic Trials (yes, the Ethiopian Trials are being held in the Netherlands). She took 5.79 seconds off Hassan’s record from Sunday.
DUTCH athlete Sifan Hassan poses with scoreboard after setting a new world record on Sunday. AFP
HENGELO: Sifan Hassan of the Netherlands fired a warning shot ahead of the Tokyo Olympics by setting a new world record in the women’s 10,000m on Sunday.
Hassan, 28, clocked 29min 06.82sec at the Hengelo meet, smashing the previous best set by Ethiopian Almaz Ayana (29:17.45) in winning gold at the 2016 Rio Games.
Hassan was aided by technology that lit up the track on world record pace as she ran.
“Wow! To run this world record here today in Hengelo is something I could only dream of,” said Hassan, who was born in Ethiopia, arrived in the Netherlands in 2008 at the age of 15 and received Dutch citizenship in 2013.