After excruciatingly missing out on the world indoor mile record by 0.01 seconds in February, Kejelcha needed only three weeks to make up for the agonising experience as he broke Moroccan runner Hicham El Guerrouj’s record by 1.44 seconds in Boston. gold medals at the that event besides the World Junior Championships. On the track, he is the silver medalist in the 10K from last year’s Beijing World Championships. All Rights Reserved. Kejelcha, having made his debut in Doha, won in Rome and Brussels. In the video above, you see 20-year-old Ethiopian Yomif Kejelcha and his 18-year-old compatriot Selemon Barega. Yomif Kejelcha offered another exciting glimpse of his star quality by cruising to victory in the boys’ 3000m final on the penultimate day of athletics action at the Youth Olympic Games in the Nanjing Olympic Sport Centre Stadium on Sunday (24). Youth Olympic Games and World Indoor Championships. Just a month after securing the world junior shot put title, Pole Konrad Bukowiecki proved unassailable in the under-18 age group as he hurled his implement out to a world-youth-leading mark of 23.17m to ease to gold. However, much to the delight of the home fans, the Chinese athlete was awarded the gold by virtue of a superior second-best effort. Ryan Hill, 26, earned the silver medal in the 3k at the recent World Indoor Championships at Portland. He did not earn a spot on the Kenyan World Championships team for Beijing, but finished as the top Kenyan in last year’s T&FN world rankings – at No.

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Ethiopian runner Kenenisa Bekele holds the world record in 5000m since May 2004 and the Olympic record since August 2008.

Lyles said of the USA’s first athletics gold medal in Nanjing: “Coming in with a big target on your back, there’s always pressure. The 16-year-old Kenyan left the crowd with something else to remember him by, a hitherto unknown talent for mirroring martial arts moves. 5K WR 13:14.97 (breaking previous best by over 30 seconds, accomplished at the 2015 Prefontaine Classic). My father, who coaches me, would be at home screaming with brothers going crazy in the house telling everybody just what I did.”. He ended the year with the world’s fastest time at 12:53.98 and this year already has a major gold medal, winning the 3K at the World Indoor Championships in Portland.

Geoffrey Kamworor, 23, will make his Pre Classic debut at 5K a major event.

four years ago. As a further measure of the magnitude of his performance, it was the fifth best performance by a youth in history and added to his 2013 world youth title. Eugene: Pre Classic Women's 100m Hurdles is Colossal! Geoffrey Kamworor, 23, will make his Pre Classic debut at 5K a major event.

Glibert Soet laid waste to the opposition with a scintillating last-lap performance to stop the clock in a world-youth-leading time of 3:41.99.

Yomif Kejelcha winning the 3000m at the 2014 Youth Olympic Games (YOG LOC) © Copyright, Hyde sets 110m hurdles world youth best at Youth Olympic games, Lyles and Myles lead US resurgence at Youth Olympic Games, Chepngetich, Halasz, Sebsibe and Swoboda continue their Youth Olympic Games gold medal quest, Hyde threatens world youth best on first day of Youth Olympic Games. Lagat won his seventh U.S. 5k crown in 2014, giving him the most in history. In 2013, Alamirew won the Diamond  Race in this event. The middle- and long-distance runner will go head-to-head with, holds the world record in 5000m since May 2004 and the. Soi was a finalist in the last two World Championships and has been world ranked by T&FN among the world's top 10 eight times since 2006. Hlib Piskunov produced the performance of his young life to defeat world youth leader and red-hot pre-event favourite Bence Halasz of Hungary in a dramatic boys’ hammer final. Mile indoor WR 3:54.91 (breaking Eamonn Coghlan’s 20-year-old mark by over 3 seconds). 4, matching his highest. “A personal best in the final was more than I dreamed of.

He has carved a major slice of Pre Classic history.

He has won every U.S. title he’s run since last year indoors, collecting three in total.

The 17-year-old Kejelcha could then afford to serenely ease to a processional win in a time of 7:56.20 – the second-fastest time by a youth athlete this year – albeit nearly a full 20 seconds behind the staggering time of 7:36.28 he posted at the IAAF World Challenge meeting in Ostrava in June, which sits second on the senior 3000m world lists this year.

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You've just got to run your own race and do the best you can. Ethiopian Yomif Kejelcha will return to the Prefontaine Classic as the youngest winner by far of the men’s 5000 meters, the favorite racing distance of Steve Prefontaine. He is best known for two gold medals at the World Half-Marathon Championships (this year and in ’14) as well as another at last year’s World Cross Country Championships.

His compatriot Yuliya Levchenko vowed “to party” after earning a stunning success in the girls’ high jump by bettering her pre-final best of1.83m on three occasions to edge France’s Nawal Meniker, with her second-time clearance at 1.89m securing the gold medal. Setting a world record at 21 years of age must be special – a feeling middle distance runner Yomif Kejelcha is familiar with after he broke the world indoor mile record earlier in the year.

At 18, Yomif Kejelcha has already raced to unprecedented history.

I have so many emotions, I can’t understand it,” was Levchenko’s response to a dramatic and unexpected gold medal. The pre-race favourites struck gold in the 200m A finals with US sprinter Noah Lyles securing a comfortable victory in the boys’ race and Natalliah Whyte ensuring Jamaican gold in the girls’ equivalent. True completed a difficult double at last year’s U.S. championships, finishing 2nd in both the 5K and 10K. Kamworor has displayed incredible range – PRing in last year’s Pre Classic 10K at 26:52.65, then two weeks later running a lifetime best in the 1500 of 3:40.7 at an altitude of some 5500+ feet (over 1700 meters). 10km road WR 27:48 (breaking Haile Gebrselassie’s 2013 best by 12 seconds). At age 19 in 2012, Koech was the youngest before Kejelcha last year to win the Diamond League title in this event. In a furious battle for silver, Theirry Ndikumwenayo of Burundi pipped Koech by 0.28 in 8:05.05, but there is little doubt that Kejelcha is a special talent and his future development will be monitored with great anticipation. Last year’s victory made him the Pre Classic’s youngest 5K winner by four years and foreshadowed two more victories at IAAF Diamond League meets as he won the overall Diamond Race, once again the youngest ever. The Ethiopian athlete made his IAAF Diamond League in Doha four years ago. Her fellow Russian Anatoly Ryapolov, the world youth long jump champion, defied wet conditions in the morning session to secure the boys’ long jump crown with 7.54m.

Kejelcha arrived in Portland one year later.

Three months later, he made a great introduction of himself, when he ranked fourth in the 5,000m final. Lagat owns more Pre Classic titles at men’s distances above 1500 meters (5) than anyone except steeplechase Hall of Famer Henry Marsh (7). American Ben True, 30, is a Dartmouth grad who was world ranked last year No. He finished 2nd and 3rd, respectively, at the Pre Classic those years. Since making his international debut at the 2013 World Youth Championships, Kejelcha has won gold medals at the that event besides the World Junior Championships, Youth Olympic Games and World Indoor Championships.

In his first Pre Classic appearance in 2011, Ndiku joined the sub-3:50 club with a 3:49.77 in the Bowerman Mile.

Caleb Ndiku, 23, earned the silver medal in last summer’s World Championships in Beijing. His triumph brings to an end an impressive 13-month period in which the gifted Ethiopian has snared all three major age group global titles, a sequence kick-started by his 3000m gold medal at the 2013 IAAF World Youth Championships in Ukraine. © 2019 World Athletics.

Kenyan runners have won the Pre Classic 5K more times (10) than any other country has in the last 20 years, and two of those Kenyans are the most recent champions preceding Kejelcha. A phenomenal age-group talent, the Ethiopian claimed the 2013 world U18 3000m title at the age of 15 and the following year cruised to world U20 5000m and Youth Olympic 3000m gold medals. As 2013 world youth 3000m and 2014 world junior 5000m champion, the prodigious Ethiopian’s talent has been apparent for some time. At age 19 in 2012, Koech was the youngest before Kejelcha last year to win the Diamond League title in this event. Discipline: Middle & Long Distance Country: Ethiopia Born: 1 August 199 7 Setting a world record at 21 years of age must be special – a feeling middle distance runner Yomif Kejelcha is familiar with after he broke the world indoor mile record earlier in the year.

world indoor mile record earlier in the year.

Prior to Kejelcha, Yenew Alamirew, 25, was Ethiopia’s top-ranked runner, earning No. What were you doing at the age of 18? The Pre Classic 5K will once again feature a clash of the best from Ethiopia, Kenya, and the U.S. dominating a road to the Rio Olympics where only three from any country can qualify. Thomas Longosiwa, 34, matched Soi’s Olympic bronze in this event in a wild finish at London and then just missed a medal in a similar sprint at the 2013 Moscow World Championships, taking 4th in a 3-4-5 Kenyan finish.

But you can’t worry about it.