Moses Mosop Breaks Toshihiko Seko's 30km World Record.

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Bsc (Hons) Degree in Physical Education, Loughborough University (1992-1994)

Masters in Education (University of Western Australia, 2005-2008)

Picture 1 - Kenya's Mosop breaks Toshihiko Seko's 30km world record for 30km.

 

Eugene (Oregon): Kenya's Moses Mosop broke the 30-year-old world record for 30km run on a track here on Friday at the Prefontaine Classic athletics meet.

Mosop, 25, clocked 1hr 26min 47.4sec for the rarely contested event. Along the way, he broke the record for 25km time as well in a time of 1hr 12min 35.4sec.

In the past, both world records belonged to Toshihiko Seko, who did 1hr 13min 55.8sec for the 25km and 1hr 29min 18.8sec for the 30km.  

In The Star paper, Malaysia, it was reported Mosop saying," We started conservatively but by 15km I felt comfortable, so I pushed the pace, and then really enjoyed the race,"

For this race, only 8 men lined up for the race and it was 75 laps run. In 2005, Mosop was only a bronze in the World Championships. In the 30km race on Friday, Mosop lapped every one with 16 laps to go. During the run, he told that the only problem that he faced was that it was difficult for him to concentrate running the monotonous rounds again and again.

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