Joshua Cheptegei of Uganda took the lead with a little more than a lap left in a masterpiece of a 10,000-meter final Friday to win in an Olympic-record 26 minut
Joshua Cheptegei , of Uganda, celebrates after winning the men's 10,000-meter final at the 2024 Summer Olympic s, Friday, Aug. 2, 2024, in Saint-Denis, France.
This was Cheptegei's season opener on the track this season — his only race at this distance was a 26:53 run in a cross-country road race earlier this season. Cheptegei adds this to the silver medal he won in Tokyo and the world titles he took in 2019, 2022 and 2023. The team of Vernon Norwood, Shamier Little, Bryce Deadmon and Kaylyn Brown finished the four laps in 3 minutes, 7.41 seconds to break a mark set at world championships last year.
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