Joshua Cheptegei New 5000m clocking 12: NEW World Record Diamond League Monaco 2020

#joshuacheptegei Ugandan Joshua Cheptegei broke a 16-year-old world record in the 5000m by nearly two seconds, clocking 12: in Monaco on Friday. Cheptegei, the 2019 World 10,000m champion who reportedly needed 80 hours to travel from Uganda for the Diamond League meet, took seconds off Ethiopian legend Kenenisa Bekele‘s world record from 2004. Bekele is also the 10,000m world-record holder and the second-fastest marathoner in history. “It took a lot of mind setting to keep being motivated this