Kip Lagat steps up to 10K — Bingo! WR in first attempt at distance

Kip kicked! His last of 25 laps was sub-59.

Kip kicked! His last of 25 laps was sub-59.

Bernard “Kip” Lagat at 41, looking for new worlds to conquer, raced a 10K Sunday at the Payton Jordan Invitational. Stanford reported: “The meet peaked when … Lagat provided the night’s signature moment after winning the 10,000 in a U.S.-leading time and Olympic qualifier, setting a world masters record of 27:49.35 in the process. The Payton Jordan crowd, which always appreciates a good 10,000, was on its feet to honor the five-time world champion in his debut track 10K, and Lagat responded in turn by saluting and applauding the crowd in gratitude.” (See results here.) The listed M40 WR is 28:30.88 by Finnish great Martti Vainio. Shaving 40 seconds is huge. His time age-grades to 26:51.

IAAF report noted: “After comfortably ticking off 66 and 67-second laps for the majority of the race, the 41-year-old produced a last 400m of 58.81 to hold off Suguru Osako down the home straight, the Japanese athlete clocking 27:50.25 for second place.”

Kip’s 10K splits:

1 Bernard Lagat Nike 27:49.35

1:08.161 (1:08.161) 2:14.847 (1:06.686) 3:22.188 (1:07.341)

4:28.075 (1:05.887) 5:35.923 (1:07.848) 6:43.188 (1:07.265)

7:51.261 (1:08.073) 8:58.259 (1:06.998) 10:06.287 (1:08.028)

11:13.078 (1:06.791) 12:20.299 (1:07.221) 13:27.108 (1:06.809)

14:33.916 (1:06.808) 15:40.115 (1:06.199) 16:48.037 (1:07.922)

17:56.019 (1:07.982) 19:03.862 (1:07.843) 20:10.589 (1:06.727)

21:16.571 (1:05.982) 22:25.136 (1:08.565) 23:32.990 (1:07.854)

24:40.967 (1:07.977) 25:46.985 (1:06.018) 26:50.543 (1:03.558)

27:49.350 (58.807)

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May 2, 2016

2 Responses

  1. Nat Larson - May 2, 2016

    Apparently there was also a U.S. Women’s masters record crushed by Jen Rhines in the 5000 at this meet. Coverage would be appreciated ….

  2. Pete Magill - May 3, 2016

    For the record, Finnish “great” Martti Vainio was stripped of an Olympic medal for doping (for the anabolic steroid methenolone, surprising Vainio who thought he was only cheating with testosterone, which should have vanished from his system more quickly). He’d also tested positive following a previous marathon in an unofficial test conducted by his country’s national athletics association–they only did an A sample, and only did so to warn athletes who might turn up positive at the coming 1984 Olympics (the USA did the same thing, with more than 60% of tested athletes coming up positive). Lucky for Vainio, his original life ban from the sport was shortened to 18 months, allowing him to continue to be “great,” including his (highly suspect) previously untouchable masters record at 10,000m.

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