Kipchoge breaks 27 minute barrier in Madrid – UPDATED Monday 1 January 2007

Madrid, Spain – Kenya’s Eliud Kipchoge claimed a brilliant win at the ‘San Silvestre Vallecana’, a 10km road race held on New Year’s eve (31 Dec), to smash his own year-old course record by a massive 40-second margin.

Kipchoge’s time of 26:54 is eight seconds faster than Ethiopia’s Haile Gebrselassie’s current world 10Km World record of 27:02 set in Doha four years ago, but the Kenyan had the benefit of a downhill circuit (705m of altitude at the start, a lowest point of 610 at the eight kilometre and an uphill final two kilometres to conclude at 650m).

Despite Kipchoge’s awesome clocking he had to do his very best to hold off the challenge of Eritrea’s Zersenay Tadesse, as the World 20km champion was also timed 26:54 while

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