Krop targeting Kimeli's record at tRUNsylvania 10km race
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His rivals in Brasov will include four other runners who have 10km bests of 27:15 or quicker, all aiming to go under 27 minutes
Two-time World Athletics Championships 5000m medalist Jacob Krop heads the men’s field for the fifth edition of the tRUNsylvania 10km men’s race set for Sunday, 5 October.
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The tRUNsylvania 10km, a World Athletics Elite Label Road Race and the most prestigious 10km road race in southeast Europe, forms part of famous Brasov Running Festival.
A World 5000m silver medalist in Oregon (2022) and bronze in Budapest (2023) as well as a Paris Olympics finalist, Krop carries a 27:04 personal best (PB) from Valencia in 2023 to the race.
He has raced the 10km once this season, at the Semi-Marathon International in Lille, where he clocked 27:15 for third place.
He has had more presence on track, competing in four Diamond League races, highlighted by a 12:51.16 season best in 5000m at the Oslo Diamond League meeting in June.
As he races his second 10K of the season, Krop, who missed out on a place in Team Kenya to Tokyo following an 11th-place finish in the national trials, has set his sight on breaking the race course record of 26:51 set by Nicolas Kimeli in 2022.
Krop’s rivals in Brasov will include four other runners who have 10km bests of 27:15 or quicker, all aiming to go under 27 minutes.
Fellow Kenyans Vincent Kipkorir and Victor Kiprono have both made big breakthroughs this year and will be looking to improve further.
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 quartet of top Kenyans contesting the 2025 tRUNsylvania 10km is completed by Daniel Kosen, who is actually the fastest man in the field with a personal best of 27:01 set when he finished third in the 2023 Valencia race, two places in front of Krop on that occasion.
Kosen is also familiar with the Brasov course, finishing fourth in 27:19 when he made his debut over the distance in 2022.
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