World Half Marathon record holder Joyciline Jepkosgei has set her focus on the African Championships in August after missing Volkswagen Prague Half Marathon in April. Jepkosgei rewrote half marathon history after setting a new world half marathon record of 1:01:25 in Czech Republic last year. “I missed Prague Half Marathon because I opted to represent Kenya in the World Half Marathon in Valencia in March,” she explained. Jepkosgei also ran the Marseille Cassis Classic 20K in a course record 67:02. The race was won in 2014 in 70:04 and in 2015 in 76:01 by Peres Jepchirchir, who earlier in the year ran 65:06 for the previous half marathon world record and Jepkosgei took third.

Source: The Star May 02, 2018 21:22 UTC