Pace-setting: Kenyans push Ugandan and Ethiopian to world records

Kenya's Beatrice Chepkoech competes in the women's 1,500 metres at the Glasgow Indoor Grand Prix athletics competition at the Emirates Arena in Glasgow on February 25, 2018. / AFP PHOTO / ANDY BUCHANAN

It has been a tradition to see athletes from other countries set the pace for Kenyans in major races.

But there seem to have been a departure –after Nicholas Kimeli and world 3,000m steeplechase record holder Beatrice Chepkoech helped Uganda’s Joshua Cheptegei to a new world records in 10,000m (26:11.00) and Ethiopia’s Letensebet Gidey in 5,000m (14:06.62) at the NN Valencia World Record Day on Wednesday night.