Ethiopia’s Ejegayehu Taye and Berihu Aregawi broke the world’s 5km records at the Cursa dels Nassos in Barcelona on Friday, clocking 14:18 and 12:50 respectively.
Taye, 21, had set an Ethiopian 3000m record of 8:19.52 earlier this year, and was the second-fastest woman in the world over 5000m this season, but tonight in Barcelona she was contesting just the second international road race of her career.
Twenty-year-old Aregawi, meanwhile, had come within one second of Joshua Cheptegei’s world record in Lille last month, so was keen to take another crack…
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