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  • Home >  2016 Olympics >  News

    Double Olympic champion Beatrice Chebet has beaten the women's 5-kilometre world record with a time of 13 minutes 54 seconds at a road race in Barcelona

    Double Olympic champion Beatrice Chebet has beaten the women's 5-kilometre world record with a time of 13 minutes 54 seconds at a road race in Barcelona

    1 January 2025

    The 24-year-old had set the previous mark a year to the day at the same event.


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    Lydia Ko has been appointed a Dame in the New Year's Honours list for services to golf, coming off a year where she completed an Olympic trifecta of medals with gold in Paris
    Australia's Logan Martin wins third BMX freestyle world championship
    High Performance Sport New Zealand is putting faith in cycling in the next Olympic cycle - boosting funding for the sport by 770 thousand dollars, with canoe racing and athletics also seeing sizeable jumps in support
    Simone Biles has maintained a "long-distance" relationship with her husband for more than a year
    Hayden Wilde's encouraged - and excited - by the prospect of more gruelling races as part of a renewed push for an Olympic gold
    Flavor Flav considers the Paris Olympics to be his personal "highlight" of 2024
    Australian Olympic cyclist, Rohan Dennis, has pleaded guilty to a lesser charge over the death of his wife, Olympian Melissa Hoskins
    Snowboard star Valentino Guseli injures ACL and Scotty James wins silver in China
    High speed crash in UCI Track Champions League sends British Olympian Katy Marchant to hospital
    Norway's Sander Skotheim wins World Athletics fair play award for supporting decathlon teammate Markus Rooth at Paris Olympics
    Flavor Flav will be a torch bearer at the 2028 Los Angeles Olympic Games
    Double Olympic champion Alistair Brownlee has retired from triathlon
    Kiwi Olympic champion Eric Murray's spoken about a tipping point for Olivia Podmore - in the weeks before her death
    An Olympic silver medallist and his brother are eligible for parole after being sentenced over a failed attempt to import cocaine worth over 200 million dollars
    Celine Dion has spoken of the importance of "hope" amid her battle with stiff person syndrome

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