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Virtually unknown Kenyan Joyciline Jepkosgei broke four world records at the Sportisimo Prague Half Marathon which is IAAF Gold Label Road Race. She set a new world record for the half marathon with a time of 1:04:52 on Saturday.<\/p>\n
Jepkosgei ran at a blistering pace and ended breaking the world records for 10km, 15km and 20km on her way to the victory. She covered the first five kilometres in 14:53, then\u00a0passed through 10km in 30:05. Defending champion Violah Chepchumba was the only one to keep up with Jepkosgei at this point and also broke the previous world 10km record by clocking 30:06. The previous record was set by Paula Radcliffe in 2003 at 30:21. It was well and truly smashed.<\/p>\n
Both Jepkosgei and Chepchumba went on to smash the previous 15km record held by Florence Kiplagat at 46:14. The duo clocked\u00a045:37 and 45:40 respectively.<\/p>\n
In the process Jepkosgei broke the world record by clocking 1:04:52. She sliced an incredible 14 seconds off the previous record that had been set by compatriot Peres Jepchirchir in February of this year.<\/p>\n
The nine fastest half marathon times in history \u00a0have now been run by Kenyan women.<\/p>\n
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