Kenya’s Agnes Ngetich stormed to a women-only world half marathon record of 1:05:15* to win her second global title of the year at the World Athletics Road Running Championships Copenhagen 26 on Sunday (20).
Dominating the race, the 25-year-old won by 50 seconds ahead of her teammate Veronica Loleo to add the world half marathon title to the world cross-country crown she claimed in Tallahassee in January.
Like in Tallahassee, Ngetich was a class apart. As she strode over the finish line, she took one second off the world record for a women-only race of 1:05:16 set by her compatriot Peres Jepchirchir when winning the world half marathon title in Gdynia in 2020.
Ngetich now holds three world records – adding this latest performance to her world 10km records of 28:46 set in a mixed race and 29:27 achieved in a women-only race.
