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World record holder Cheptegei eyeing distance double at Tokyo 2020 Sunday, 3 January 2021 Uganda s Joshua Cheptegei could be set to contest the 5,000 metres and the 10,000m on the track at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, with the new world record holder in both events fancied to do the double. If he is to win both Olympic titles, it will be a fourth Games in a row where the double has been achieved. Ethiopia s Kenenisa Bekele, who previously held both the 5,000m and 10,000m world records before the Ugandan broke both of them last year, won the double at Beijing 2008, following his 10,000m win at Athens 2004. ....
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. ....
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. ....