{"id":20958,"date":"2023-03-20T12:26:13","date_gmt":"2023-03-20T12:26:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/20\/british-5km-record-falls-to-sam-atkin-in-lille-aw\/"},"modified":"2023-03-20T12:26:13","modified_gmt":"2023-03-20T12:26:13","slug":"british-5km-record-falls-to-sam-atkin-in-lille-aw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/20\/british-5km-record-falls-to-sam-atkin-in-lille-aw\/","title":{"rendered":"British 5km record falls to Sam Atkin in Lille &#8211; AW"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<h5>Lincoln Wellington athlete takes four seconds off Marc Scott\u2019s three-year-old national mark in fast road race in France<\/h5>\n<p>Sam Atkin broke Marc Scott\u2019s British record for 5km with 13:16 in Lille on Sunday (March 19). Finishing sixth in a race won by Ethiopian Yomif Kejelcha in 12:50, Atkin stormed through the finish line in France to take four seconds off Scott\u2019s mark.<\/p>\n<p>Scott ran 13:20 when he won one of the Podium events in Barrowford in 2020, but here in Lille the 30-year-old Atkin found himself chasing three Ethiopians and two Kenyans home.<\/p>\n<p>Kejelcha, a two-time world indoor 3000m champion and world indoor mile record-holder, missed Berihu Aregawi\u2019s world record, set in Herzogenaurach last year, by just one second.<\/p>\n<p>Kejelcha drew away from his rivals mid-race to win comfortably as Kenya\u2019s Reynold Cheruiyot Kipkorir was second in 13:04 with Ethiopia\u2019s Telahun Haile Bekele third in 13:07.<\/p>\n<p>The US-based Atkin has posted a spate of fast times in the last couple of years such as 13:03.64 for 5000m indoors, 27:26.58 for 10,000m and an outright UK 3000m record of 7:31.97 set indoors in Boston in January.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1039966257\" style=\"width: 760px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-1039966257\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Yomif Kejelcha (Max Delobel)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>On a busy day for road racing with marathons in Rome, Barcelona and Seoul, plus the NYC Half, Kenya\u2019s Caroline Nyaga won the women\u2019s 5km in Lille in 14:35 as she finished narrowly ahead of Ethiopia\u2019s Mekides Bekele.<\/p>\n<p>Lille also saw some fast 10km times with Ethiopia\u2019s Gemechu Dida clocking 27:12 to win the men\u2019s race ahead of Emmanuel Kiprop while Kenya\u2019s Dorcas Kimeli ran 30:48 ahead of Mercyline Cherono in the women\u2019s category.<\/p>\n<p>Patrick Mosin won the half-marathon in 59:31 from\u00a0Alfred Barkach\u2019s 59:32 as Emily Chebet, returning from a doping ban, won the women\u2019s race in 67:52.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" style=\"background: #FFF; border: 0; border-radius: 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 540px; min-width: 326px; padding: 0; width: calc(100% - 2px);\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/Cp_DcISItCX\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\">\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>UK all-time 5km rankings<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>13:16 Sam Atkin \u2013 Lille, 2023<br \/>13:20 Marc Scott \u2013 Barrowford, 2020<br \/>13:26 Alex Yee \u2013 Barrowford, 2020<br \/>13:27 Nick Goolab \u2013 Monaco, 2020<br \/>13:30 Rob Denmark \u2013 Dublin, 1996<br \/>13:30 Mohamed Farah \u2013 Stranorlar, 2006<br \/>13:31 Mike McLeod \u2013 Newcastle, 1984<br \/>13:31 Keith Cullen \u2013 Dublin, 1996<br \/>13:32 David Lewis \u2013 Newcastle, 1984<br \/>13:33 Eamonn Martin \u2013 Newcastle, 1985<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><b><i>\u00bb <\/i><\/b><i>Subscribe to AW magazine <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mymagazinesub.co.uk\/athletics-weekly\/aw-club-digital-only-subscriptions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"s2\"><i>here<\/i><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"aw-newsletter-block\">\n<p>Subscribe <span>to the AW Newsletter<\/span><\/p>\n<link rel=\"stylesheet\" id=\"formidable-css\" href=\"https:\/\/athleticsweekly.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/formidable\/css\/formidableforms.css?ver=519028\" type=\"text\/css\" media=\"all\"\/>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async defer src=\"https:\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/athleticsweekly.com\/athletics-news\/british-5km-record-falls-to-sam-atkin-in-lille-1039966255\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lincoln Wellington athlete takes four seconds off Marc Scott\u2019s three-year-old national mark in fast road race in France Sam Atkin broke Marc Scott\u2019s British record for 5km with 13:16 in Lille on Sunday (March 19). Finishing sixth in a race won by Ethiopian Yomif Kejelcha in 12:50, Atkin stormed through the finish line in France [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20959,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6802],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-20958","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-athetics"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20958\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}