Cheptegei sets new 5K WR

8-14-20

Joshua Cheptegei has just set a new world 5000m record of 12:35.36* at the Wanda Diamond League meeting,

This breaks Kenenisa Bekele’s 16-year-old 5000m monument of 12:37.35

Cheptegei who is from Ugandan, won both the World 10,000m champion and the world cross-country title last year.

He also set a world 5km record on the road in Monaco in February