Kiplimo tracks down winning feet, Cheptegai compliments him on accomplishment

Jacob Kiplimo played his greatest inspiration as he hustled through the course at the 30th EDP Lisbon Half Marathon in Portugal in a world record season of 57:31 minutes on Sunday.

Kiplimo managed everything beginning to end, breaking the field after three kilometers, controlling the race from the front, driving by near a moment at the five-kilometer mark.

While he traveled through the test in 27:05 minutes after 10 kilometers and afterward timing 40:27 at the 15-kilometer mark, the 21-year-old needed to burrow further at the last stretch while focusing on the end goal.

Kiplimo was two or three seconds behind the past record with just a kilometer of the competition to run, and that is the point at which it soaked in that he could kick on and cut Kibiwott Kandie’s time that remained at 57:32.

The Olympic 5000-meter bronze medallist said after the race that he needed ‘to tell his brain’ that the record was still inside range, and tossed everything at it.

“I realized that I planned to break the World Record when I entered in the last kilometer,” Kiplimo told fastrunning.com.

“At the point when I was on the completion straight and saw the clock, I needed to invest in the entirety of my amounts of energy. What’s more, let my psyche know that I needed to run extremely quick to arrive at the end goal,” added the new half long distance race record holder.

Kiplimo who ran an ideal race additionally guaranteed that he will get back to Lisbon and attempt to enhance his present time should his timetable permit him.

“I trust and I trust. We should delay until this COVID-19 circumstance is done and possibly I can rebound. I’ll consult with my chief with regards to it,” he said as he left with 100,000 Euros (over UGX 400 million).

Kiplimo’s countryman Jacob Cheptegei drove the salutary directives for his most recent accomplishment and heavenly execution tweeting “This heavenly presentation merits celebrating.”

“Numerous congrats to you my sibling Jacob Kiplimo. At long last the half long distance race world record lands home,” the tweet proceeded.

The triumph in Lisbon paints Kiplimo in comparable shade with incredible street sprinters like Kenya’s Moses Tanui who was the principal sprinter in history of the 13.1-mile competition to break the one-hour obstruction in 1993 when he got started at 59:47 in Milan.

Haile Gebrselassie increased the speed running under 59 minutes in Tempe in 2006 with 58:55. After four years, Eritrean Zersenay Tadese further cut the world record to 58:23 in Lisbon.

Tadese’s record would represent eight years before Abraham Kiptum ran 58:18 in Valencia 2018 to begin a run of reliable upgrades to the world record time.

Geofrey Kamworor hacked the world record time to 58:11 in Copenhagen in 2019 and afterward Kandie ran sub-58, timing 57:23 in December 2020.

Ethiopia’s Esa Huseyidin Mohamed and Gerba Beyata Dibaba completed second and third, halting the clock at 59:39, while there was other six competitors who completed beneath the hour mark.

Tsehay Gemechu Beyan of Ethiopia guaranteed the ladies’ EDP Lisbon Half Marathon title with an exceptionally quick season of 1:06:06. Kenya’s Daisy Cherotich (1:06:15) and Joyce Chepkemoi (1:06:19) required second and third individually.