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Ethiopian runner Kejelcha breaks the men's half-marathon world record by one second
Ethiopia's Yomif Kejelcha celebrates winning gold in the Men's 3000 Metres final during day four of the 2018 IAAF Indoor World Championships at The Arena Birmingham

ETHIOPIAN runner Yomif Kejelcha made every second count as he broke the men's half-marathon record by a second yesterday.

Kejelcha finished strongly in the Spanish city of Valencia to set a time of 57 minutes, 30 seconds, knocking a single second off the record set in 2021 by Ugandan runner Jacob Kiplimo in Lisbon.

Kejelcha is a former world championship 10,000m silver medallist  and holds the indoor world record for the mile, which he set in Boston in 2019.

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