What you need to know about Jacob Kiplimo's new half marathon world record of 56:41 at the 2025 eDreams Mitja Marató Barcelona.
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Shattered the previous world record by 49 seconds. He ran his 5k to 15k split in basically his exact PB time for the 10.000km (26:33) and just about 20s slower than the 10k world record.
Even with the half marathon distance being historically a bit undervalued because rarely raced, these are absolute hilarious numbers.
Cycling and long distance running shattering records left and right currently, going to be interesting in a couple of years what new power fuel is the root of it all.