Feb 21 (Reuters) - Ethiopia's Ababel Yeshaneh smashed the half marathon world report by 20 seconds
Feb 21 (Reuters) – Ethiopia’s Ababel Yeshaneh smashed the half marathon world report by 20 seconds on Friday to win the Ras Al Khaimah (RAK) occasion within the United Arab Emirates on Friday.
Yeshaneh crossed the end line in a single hour, 4 minutes and 31 seconds on the World Athletics Gold Label highway race, eclipsing the earlier report of 1:04:51 set by Kenyan Joyciline Jepkosgei in Valencia in 2017.
Marathon world report holder Brigid Kosgei completed second, and her time was additionally two seconds inside Jepkosgei’s mark.
Each Yeshaneh and Kosgei have been carrying a model of Nike’s Vaporfly sneakers, which have featured in a number of different monitor and highway information within the final three years.
Some earlier fashions of the shoe have been banned by World Athletics final month, however the newest one launched by Nike complies with the principles to restrict carbon plate utilization and sole thickness for elite races.
“I did not think about this end result,” mentioned Yeshaneh, whose earlier…