77Kenya's Joyciline Jepkosgei has broken her own World record at the Trinidad Alfonso Valencia Half Marathon women's race in a time of 1:04:51. Kenya’s Joyciline Jepkosgei kept her stellar 2017 momentum alive as she broke yet another record at the Valencia Trinidad Alfonso Half Marathon on Sunday. Jepkosgei chopped a second off her own world record to win in 1:04:51. The brisk rhythm continued as the 23-year-old was timed at 30:09 at 10 kilometres, still well ahead of her own world record pace. Sunday's performance was the third women’s world half marathon record set on Spanish soil in recent years after Florence’s Kiplagat previous records of 1:05:12 and 1:05:09 in Barcelona in 2014 and 2015 respectively.

Source: Standard Digital October 22, 2017 13:50 UTC