The Trentino player wins in Naples by improving Faniel’s Italian record by 41 ” and becoming the second European ever. In Spain world record of the 10 km of the Ethiopian Yehualaw (29’14 “)
Italian athletics, waiting for Marcell Jacobs, his 60 and the second day of the Italian indoor championships in Ancona, celebrates Yeman Crippa. The 25-year-old from Trentino wins the Naples half marathon in a fantastic 56’26 “, the first Italian under the clock and second European ever, 13” from the record of the Swiss Julian Wenders. For the policeman of Ethiopian origins the progress on the Italian record is even 41 “: it belonged to Eyob Faniel (1h00’07”), who had obtained it just over a year ago in Siena-Ampugnano. Right where Yeman, here in the second experience, had started on the distance, with a retreat.
The race
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Crippa, with a great race finale, thus redeems a season, the last one, which did not go according to plan, culminating in 11th place out of 10,000 at the Tokyo Olympics. Yeman, fresh from a month and a half of rallying at 2400 meters in Iten, Kenya, at the Fuorigrotta finish line puts up quality opponents. Behind him three Kenyans: Joshua Belet (59’28 “), Josphat Kipkemboi Kemei (59’32”) and Josphat Kiprotich (59’35 “). Then the Ethiopian Mogos Tuemay (1h00’11 “) and Wenders himself (1h00’28”). For Massimo Pegoretti’s pupil, the Italian records in his possession become five: 3000, 5000, 10,000, 5 km on the road and now even half. Other blues: Yoghi Chiappinelli 12th in 1h02’08 ”, Iliass Aouani 13th in 1h02’32”. In the women’s race won by the Kenyan Gladys Chepkirui in 1h08’09 “, third place Sofiia Yaremchuk, Italian from Ukraine, in 1h10’11”.
World record
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At the same time, another Ethiopian, the 22-year-old Yalemzerf Yehualaw, in Castellon, Spain, with 29’14 “(14’28” halfway through the race), hits the 10 km world record. The previous limit, 29’38 ”, from last year was Kaldikan Gazahegne, compatriot color bearer from Bahrain. Only two women on the track did better. Road running, also thanks to the new generation shoes, has really entered another dimension.
February 27, 2022 (change February 27, 2022 | 11:51)
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