At the time of the tenth kilometer, Jacob Kiplimo (24) brand 26m56s, and that rhythm would have been record of the 10K world not too long ago, and yet the man does not loosen, continues to push, partial signature of 2m40s per kilometer, reaches Accelerate until 2m35s, and at that moment my mind goes further:
-What brand will be able to sign in the London Marathon, from here to a couple of months?
Some wise are clear.
Days ago, Eliud Kipchoge, the legend of discipline, said that four names could break the 2H00M barrier in an official race. He quoted Joshua Cheptegei, Daniel Mateiko, Selemon Barega and Jacob Kiplimo.
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I don’t know if it will be right in the case of Cheptegei, Mateiko or Barega.
But in the case of Kiplimo, I have no doubt.
In the Edreams Mitja Mararató of Barcelona by Brooks, Jacob Kiplimo is a cyclone.
Fly, kiplimo, fly.
The exercise is amazing and translates into an unsuspected plusmarca in other times: it goes up to 56m40, forty seconds below the 57m30s of Jomif Kejelcha (in Valencia, in October), and its silhouette is emerging in the finish line when they still still The last waves of runners are leaving (30,000 registered, only the half marathon in Berlin, with its 35,000, exceeds Barcelona in number of participants).
The organizers are not believed.
But the Ugandés, yes, this is clear.
-I’m amazed by what I have achieved today. But I have always been clear that I could beat the world record -he proceeds when he crosses the goal.
Everything runs in favor of this exceptional talent.
13ºC, not a pinch of wind, clean boulevards, well paved, plains and generous. Some ankles that project it forward. Geoffrey Kamworor, his only adversary, far, a minute behind (ends second, at a minute and a half of kiplimo). The determination in the look.
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And the observer does not give credit. At the passage of the second kilometer, Kiplimo, wonderful fondista that defends himself on all fronts, in the Cross Country (double world champion, in 2023 and 2024) and on the track (bronze at 10,000 m in Tokyo 2020) and also in the Route (world gold in half marathon on 2020), surpasses the hare, wants more.
-I asked him to accelerate, that I wanted to do my best. But he couldn’t anymore, so I’ve had to leave him behind, ”says Kiplimo.
The astonishment!
This guy does not yield. Cross 5,000 in 13m34s. After him, the abyss. Cross 10,000 in 26m56s. Fifteen seconds over the world record are left over. The motorcycle follows while descending through ARC of triomf: runs at 25 km/h (reader, try to put the roller at 25 km/h; well, do not try it). It crosses 15,000 in 39m47s, and that is a record of the world of that distance (the official plusmarca is of the same Kiplimo, of 40m27s; and still has six long kilometers left!).
In October, when he beat the media record in Valencia, Kejelcha said:
-I see some man going down 57 minutes in the half marathon. Maybe I do it …
Well, I am seeing it now, and it is not the spiky Kejelcha who does it, but the fine kiplimo.
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