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Nairobi \u2014 Double Olympic champion Beatrice Chebet clocked a world record of 0:13:54 to clinch the women’s 5km race at the Cursa del Nassos in Barcelona on New Year’s Eve.<\/em><\/p>\n Chebet blazed to victory ahead of Ethiopia’s Medina Eisa who clocked 0:14:23 to finish second as Uganda’s Belinda Chemutai timed 0:14:36 in third.<\/p>\n The win completes is the perfect icing on the cake for the 25-year-old who also smashed the women’s 10,000m world record at the Prefontaine Classic in May, clocking 28:54.14.<\/p>\n The…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> Nairobi \u2014 Double Olympic champion Beatrice Chebet clocked a world record of 0:13:54 to clinch the women’s 5km race at the Cursa del Nassos in Barcelona on New Year’s Eve. Chebet blazed to victory ahead of Ethiopia’s Medina Eisa who clocked 0:14:23 to finish second as Uganda’s Belinda Chemutai timed 0:14:36 in third. The win […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":187692,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[258,256,18693,7553,44718,4688,430,257,9702,5267,21156,254,5093],"class_list":["post-187691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-barcelona","tag-champ","tag-chebet","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-news","tag-olympic","tag-record","tag-smashes","tag-south-africa-today","tag-world"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187691\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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