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.