CASTELLON: Ethiopia’s Yalemzerf Yehualaw smashed the women’s 10km road record with a time of 29:14s in the mixed race at the World Athletics Label road race in Castellon, Spain today.
The 22-year-old shaved 24s off the previous mark of 29:38s set by Bahrain’s Kalkidan Gezahegne, also born in Ethiopia, last year.
“Today a dream came true. I felt really great in the race, the first 5km was very fast, I was struggling a little bit in the second 5km but I was still able to maintain a high pace,” Yehualaw said.
Yehualaw broke the half marathon world record last year by 19s, although the time was not ratified by World Athletics as the course was 54m short.