Karoki to Chase World Record at Copenhagen Half Marathon

Published by IAAF on June 25, 2015

The organizers of the Copenhagen Half Marathon, an IAAF Bronze Label Road Race, have announced that Kenya’s Bedan Karoki will take a tilt at the world half marathon record at their race on Sunday 13 September.

Karoki – who is also an accomplished runner on the track with a 10,000m best of 26:52.36 – will be racing in the city and on the course which staged last year’s IAAF World Half Marathon Championships, won by Karoki’s compatriot and rival Geoffrey Kamworor.

Kamworor won on that occasion in 59:08, proving that Copenhagen is a quick course, while Karoki’s personal best is 59:23 from when he won the Philadelphia Half Marathon 2014. The pair ALSO finished first and second respectively at the 2015 IAAF World Cross Country Championships in March. 

The world record has stood at 58.23 to Eritrea’s Zersenay Tadese, which he ran at the 2010 Lisbon Hal Marathon.