Tirop's 10km record yet to be ratified

As the 2021 World Athletics comes to an end, the governing body has released a list of records set within the year that are yet to be ratified, among them Agnes Tirop's 10km record set in September. 

The slain Olympian, up against a stellar field that had compatriots Sheila Chepkirui and Nancy Jelagat among others, gave a dominant performance as she claimed victory in the women's 10km in an Adidas-organised event to clock 30.01 and break a 19-year old women's only record in the distance. 

The event dubbed 'Road to Records' was held in Herzogenaurach, Germany on Sunday 12 September 2021 morning bringing together some of the best Adidas athletes competing in six events that included the half marathon for men and women, 10k and 5k for both as well. The course was set up around the Adidas headquarters.

Tirop led a Kenyan clean sweep in the women's 10km race as she went on to break the previous record of 30.29 set by Moroccan Asmae Leghzaoui in 2002.

Olympic 10,000m silver medallist Kalkidan Gezahegne's 10km record of 29:38 set as she won The Giants Geneva 10km on Sunday 3 October, breaking the world record by five seconds is also yet to be ratified. 

The 30-year-old from Bahrain, contesting just the fourth road race of her career, went out fast. By the time she reached the half-way point in 14:46, she had a five-second lead over Kenyan duo Celliphine Chespol and the late Tirop, had set the women-only world record the previous month. 

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Gezahegne covered the second half in 14:51, crossing the finish line in 29:38 to take five seconds off Joyciline Jepkosgei’s world record set in Prague in 2017. Tirop finished second in 30:20, eight seconds ahead of steeplechase specialist Chespol. 

Meawhile, the half marathon world records set by Letesenbet Gidey in Valencia on 24 Oct and that of Uganda's  Jacob Kiplimo set in Lisbon on 21 Nov are also pending ratification. 

Records yet to be ratified

• U20 men's indoor heptathlon: 6062 Jente Hauttekeete (BEL) Frankfurt 14 Feb 21

• U20 women's indoor 60m hurdles: 7.91 Ackera Nugent (JAM) Lubbock 26 Feb 21

• women's 10km: 30:01 Agnes Tirop (KEN) Herzogenaurach 12 Sep 21

• women's 5km: 14:29 Senbere Teferi (ETH) Herzogenaurach 12 Sep 21

• women's 10km: 29:38 Kalkidan Gezahegne (BRN) Geneva 3 Oct 21

• women's half marathon: 1:02:52 Letesenbet Gidey (ETH) Valencia 24 Oct 21

• men's half marathon: 57:31 Jacob Kiplimo (UGA) Lisbon 21 Nov 21