Beatrice Chebet breaks 14-minute barrier to set 5000m world document at Prefontaine Traditional
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Kenya’s Beatrice Chebet made historical past on the 2025 Prefontaine Traditional by changing into the primary girl to run the 5,000 meters in below 14 minutes, setting a brand new world document of 13:58.06 and surpassing Gudaf Tsegay’s earlier mark.
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EUGENE, Ore: Kenyan Beatrice Chebet set a world document within the 5,000 meters, successful the occasion in 13 minutes, 58.06 seconds Saturday on the Prefontaine Traditional.
Chebet turned the primary girl to run below 14 minutes within the occasion, surpassing the earlier document of 14:00.21 set by Ethiopian Gudaf Tsegay. Tsegay set the document on the 2023 Prefontaine Traditional.
Seemingly conscious that the document was inside attain, Chebet pushed the ultimate 400 meters towards the end.
Agnes Jebet Ngetich second at Eugene’s Hayward Subject in 14:01.29 whereas Tsegay was third in 14:04.41.
Chebet, 25, was the gold medalist within the 5,000 and 10,000 on the Paris Olympics, changing into simply the third girl to win each.
Chebet had the earlier world finest this yr within the occasion, operating 14:06.39 final month in Rome.
“After operating in Rome, I stated I’ve to arrange for a document, as a result of in Rome I used to be simply operating to win a race, however after operating 14:03, I stated that I’m able to operating a world document,” she stated Saturday.
Chebet additionally holds the world document within the 10,000, which she set ultimately yr’s Prefontaine Traditional, operating in 28:54.14 to grow to be the primary girl to interrupt 29 minutes within the occasion.
The Prefontaine Traditional is the lone U.S. cease on the Diamond League observe and subject sequence.
