On Sunday afternoon on the Diamond League ultimate in Eugene, Ore., global 10,000m champion Gudaf Tsegay of Ethiopia virtually accomplished the unthinkable: breaking the ladies’s 5,000m global file in 14:00.20 and just about changing into the primary girl in historical past to run a 5K below 14 mins.
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Gudaf Tsegay smashes the ladies’s 5,000m global file with a time of 14:00.21 to transform Diamond League champion percent.twitter.com/VamuEr3PWr
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Tsegay surpassed the former 5,000m global file of 14:05.20, which used to be set via her rival Religion Kipyegon previous this 12 months on the Paris Diamond League, via 5 seconds, scuffling with with global cross-country champion Beatrice Chebet till the general 3 laps, when the Ethiopian pulled forward.
The tempo for the 5,000m ultimate used to be set for 14:00 flat, with the pacers taking Tsegay and Chebet via 3,000m in 8:26.03. Tsegay threw down a 2:09 ultimate 800m to shake off Chebet and transform the primary girl to significantly threaten the 14-minute 5K barrier. Chebet completed 2d at the back of Tsegay in 14:05.92, the third-fastest time in historical past. Ethiopia’s Ejgayehu Taye rounded out the Diamond League 5,000m ultimate podium in 14:21.52. Kipyegon selected to run the 1,500m on Saturday and didn’t input the ladies’s 5,000m on the Prefontaine Vintage.
Tsegay had an up-and-down 2023 season, successful the arena 10,000m identify in Budapest, then completing a disappointing thirteenth on the planet 5,000m ultimate a couple of days later.
That is the second one global file of Tsegay’s profession. In 2021, she ran an indoor 1,500m global file of three:53.09 in France.
