His 10k road record was his third big victory in the calendar year - he had already taken home the world cross-country title in March, and won the 10,000m world championship in October.Ĭheptegei was hard at work to erase the bad memories of the 2017 world cross-country championship in Kampala, Uganda. If not for Kipchoge’s timeless 1:59:40 marathon, (and maybe Kenenisa Bekele’s 2:01:41… yawn) Cheptegei would be remembered as the distance star of 2019. The road race caps a monstrous year for Cheptegei, who was a nominee for World Athletics Athlete of the Year (Kipchoge was also nominated so, yeah, he lost). The 23-year-old Ugandan dropped a hot 28:36 in Valencia on Sunday, December 1, besting Leonard Komon’s former record by six seconds.
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