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Kenya’s Florence Kiplagat set a world record for the women’s half marathon with a blistering performance at a race in Barcelona on Sunday.<\/p>\n
The 26-year-old recorded a time of one hour 5 minutes and 12 seconds, beating the previous official best of 1:05:50 set by compatriot Mary Keitany in Ras Al Khaimah in February 2011. The unofficial record of one 1:05:40 was set by Britains Paula Radcliffe. That record was set on a course that did not meet the IAAF’s point to point standards.<\/p>\n
Kiplagat’s fastest time over the distance before Sunday was 1:06:38, in Ostia in February 2012, and she finished more than seven minutes ahead of second-placed Nicola Duncan of Britain.<\/p>\n
“This is a not a day I will forget, I’m so happy,” Kiplagat said on the IAAF website (www.iaaf.org).<\/p>\n
“The circuit was very fast and I really want to thank my pace makers, Marc Roig and Stanley Siroro, they did a great job,” she added.<\/p>\n
“I felt so well from the beginning and the weather was perfect, so I had the feeling that this could be a special day.”<\/p>\n
In fact she set two world records because in the process, she broke the world 20km road record previously held by compatriot Mary Keitany. The new record now stands at 1:01:56<\/p>\n
Her 5km splits were as follows:
\n15:49
\n15:19 ( 31:18)
\n15:28 ( 46:36)<\/p>\n
After 15km, she was only 8 seconds off Tirunesh Dibaba’s 15km road record. Florence Kiplagat is now second in the all time list of 15km road running.<\/p>\n
15:20 ( 1:01:56) WR record by 40 sec
\n3:16 (2:59\/km) for 1:05:12 record by 38 sec<\/p>\n
Here fastest 15k was worth a world record ( 46:07)<\/p>\n