Nicholas Kimeli goes under 27 minutes (September 19)

Nicholas Kimeli, photo by World Athletics

We did not give Nicholas Kimeli his time on runblogrun. Last week, Nicholas took the WL in the 10,000m with his 26:58.97.

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Kimeli 26:58.97 WL
LEIDEN (NED, Sep 19): At the Gouden Spike meeting new World lead in the 10 000 m by Kenyan Nicholas Kimeli 26:58.97 ahead of Solomon Kiplimo Boit 27:41.10, also PBÂ´s for both. Third Mike Foppen won also Dutch title in great debut 27:59.10 with fourth Emil Millan de la Oliva from Sweden national U20 record 28:23.21. Women 10 000 m was also staged as Dutch Championships, personal bests for Jasmijn Lau 32:20.75 and Bo Ummels 32:25.41. Her sister Britt Ummels won the 800 m in 2:02.61. Menno Vloon cleared season best 576 in the pole vault. Christophe Lemaitre was healthy again with 15.51 (-0.6) PB in the 150 m over Taymir Burnet 15.60. Dafne Schippers clocked 11.47 (+0.1) in the 100 m over Briton Kristal Awuah 11.59 who won the 200 m in 23.20 (-1.2) PB. Also to note, 46.49 in the 400 m by hurdler Ramsey Angela and 18.16 in women shot put for Jessica Schilder.

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