Ethiopia’s Yomif Kejelcha has damaged the males’s half marathon world report, profitable a World Athletics street race in Buenos Aires on Sunday in 56 minutes 51 seconds.

The 29-year-old beforehand held the report with a time of 57:30, set in Valencia in October 2024, but lost that to Uganda’s Jacob Kiplimo in March.

Kiplimo ran 57:20 in Lisbon earlier this yr but Kejelcha has now knocked 29 seconds off that time to regain the report, topic to official ratification.

The world monitor silver medallist in the 10,000m also holds the world report for a males’s 10,000m street race.

He also grew to become one of the first males to run a sub-two hour marathon in record-eligible circumstances earlier this yr when ending second behind Kenya’s Sebastian Sawe in the London Marathon.

Sawe won the record-breaking race in 1:59:30, beating Kejelcha by just 11 seconds.