Kip Lagat steps up to 10K — Bingo! WR in first attempt at distance
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)
2 Responses
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 ….
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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