VICTORY IN SPAIN: Kiplagat wins Barcelona race while holidaying

Diamond Run Commonwealth Winner of 10, 000M race Florence Kiplagat cross the line to win Women Category of the 1st Edition of County Pension Fund, CPF, Nairobi Diamond 10KM Run after clocking 31:42.0 at Uhuru Park on Sunday, August 17th, 2014. Photo/Jonah Onyango.

Florence Jebet Kiplagat, the reigning world 21km record holder, won in her third-time stab at the Barcelona Half Marathon –an IAAF Bronze Label Road Race, a race in which she was a late entrant.

Kiplagat, who ended Kenya’s 15-year-old gold drought at the 2009 world cross-country championships in Jordan, had been invited to the Spanish coastal city of Barcelona to watch Barcelona FC and Celta De Vigo tie, but decided to enter the race.