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How Cheptegei plots for 10,000m world record

World Athletics Championships – Men's 10000 Metres Final - London Stadium, London, Britain – August 4, 2017. Mohamed Farah of Great Britain celebrates winning the final with the Gold medal, Silver medalist Joshua Kiprui Cheptegei of Uganda and Bronze medalist Paul Kipngetich Tanui of Kenya. [REUTERS/Matthew Childs]

The atypical 2020 season is set to feature another stunning chapter today when Uganda’s recently-minted world 5000m record-holder Joshua Cheptegei takes aim at the world 10,000m record at the Turia Stadium in Valencia, Spain.

Organisers of the event, dubbed the NN Valencia World Record Day, released details of Cheptegei’s assault on the 26:17.53 mark set by Kenenisa Bekele in Brussels 15 years ago, the longest standing men’s 10,000m world record in history.

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