Joyciline Jepkosgei chasing history at tRUNsylvania 10K
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Two-time World Athletics Championships 5000m medalist Jacob Krop, who was expected to attempt Nicholas Kimeli's course record from 2022 but he seems to have pulled out.
Multiple world record-breaker Joyciline Jepkosgei, racing the 10K for the first time in six years, is leading a star-studded women’s field for the fifth edition of the tRUNsylvania 10K set for Sunday, 5 October.
The race gets underway at 9:30 am.
The 31-year-old has held both 10km (29:43) and half-marathon (64:51 & 64:52) world records in her illustrious career and was the first female athlete in history to break the 30-minute barrier for the 10km on the road.
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Jepkosgei arrives in Brasov having had an outstanding 2025 campaign which includes reducing her half-marathon best to 64:13 earlier this year, as well as finishing second in the 2025 London Marathon with 2:18:44.
Despite her accolades over the distance, she is only one of three runners in an outstanding women’s field who have broken 30 minutes for 10km in their careers.
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The fastest woman in the field is the 2022 and 2024 world U-20 5000m champion Medina Eisa who leads this year’s world list with 29:25, a time she recorded when winning in the Spanish town of Castellon back in February.
The 20-year-old Ethiopian is undefeated in her three road race outings in 2025 and has improved her 3000m best on the track to 8:23.08. She also placed 13th in last month's 5000m final at the World Athletics Championships, running 15:07.47 in Tokyo.
Completing the trio of sub-30 minute 10km runners in Brasov who will be Asayech Ayichew, who has run a spate of personal bests this year including 29:43 at the Valencia 10km in January.
The women's course record for the tRUNsylvania 10K is 30:07 - set by Kenya's Sheila Chepkirui in 2022.
A myriad of Kenyans lead the challenge in the men's event, led by Daniel Kosen, who is familiar with the course after finishing fourth in 27:19, when he made his debut over the distance in 2022.
Kosen has the fastest time in the field with 27:01, set in Valencia two years ago, the likes of Vincent Kipkorir, Victor Kiprono and Amos Kipkemei are expected to challenge him.
Kipkorir ran 27:08 in the German town of Herzogenaurach in April, which was just his second international race, while Kiprono clocked 27:10 in Castellon, Spain, in February in his very first race outside Kenya.
The latter then followed up that performance with 27:11 in Tokyo just under three months later.
The men's course record for the tRUNsylvania 10K is 26:51, set by Kenya's Nicolas Kipkorir Kimeli in 2022.
Additional reporting by Athletics Weekly
