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Yehualaw is the first woman to run under 1:04 [photo courtesy]
Ethiopia's Yalemzerf Yehualaw smashed the half marathon world record on Sunday, finishing in one hour, three minutes, 43 seconds at the Antrim Coast Half Marathon in Larne, Northern Ireland, to shave 19 seconds of the previous mark.
The previous record was set by Kenya's Ruth Chepngetich in Istanbul on April 4.
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