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Agnes Ngetich is eager to break the 10km world record when she heads to the 10K Valencia Ibercaja.
Trailblazing athlete Agnes Ngetich will attack the 10km road race when she heads to the 16th edition of the 10K Valencia Ibercaja on Sunday 14 January.
The race, which has already closed its registrations after exhausting the available numbers, will feature more than 100 elite athletes from fifteen different nationalities in search of their best marks in the city of running.
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Valencia is known to produce faster times and world records with the current men’s world record that was set in 2020 by Rhonex Kipruto (26:24) still in place.
Ngetich will be hoping to go one step better with the aim to improve her best time achieved in Lille (France) in 2023. At the time, she was only 12 seconds behind the world record held by Yalemzerf Yehualaw (Castellón 2022, 29:14).
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The coordinator of the elite athletes of the race, José Enrique Muñoz Acuña, has assured that the athlete will be keen to arrive at the starting line in top form to try to unseat the world record of the Ethiopian.
Ugandan athlete Jacob Kiplimo, current world record holder in the half marathon headlines the men’s field.
Rodrigue Kwizera (Burundi, 26:56), Pietro Riva (Italy, 27:50), and Richard Douma (Netherlands, 28:08) will also be in the mix.
Also on the starting line will be the refugee athlete from South Sudan who has recently obtained Swiss nationality Dominic Lobalu, and won the last edition of the 10K.
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