{"id":5620,"date":"2026-01-11T11:49:54","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T11:49:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/?p=5620"},"modified":"2026-01-11T11:49:54","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T11:49:54","slug":"eilish-mccolgan-reclaims-womens-10km-european-record-in-valencia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/?p=5620","title":{"rendered":"Eilish McColgan reclaims women’s 10km European record in Valencia"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Eilish McColgan set a new women’s European 10km record in Valencia – just seven days after her previous record was broken by Belgian Jana van Lent.<\/b><\/p>\n

The 35-year-old Briton knocked three seconds off Van Lent’s time by winning the Valencia Ibercaja on Sunday in a time of 30 minutes seven seconds.<\/p>\n

McColgan held the record for more than three years after setting a time of 30:19 in Manchester in 2022, but that was lowered to 30:10 by Van Lent in Nice on 4 January. <\/p>\n

Before that, GB’s Paula Radcliffe held the women’s record for almost 20 years, after running a time of 30:21 in Puerto Rico in February 2003.<\/p>\n

Sweden’s Andreas Almgren also set a new European record of 26:43 in winning the men’s event in Valencia, beating his own previous best time, which was set on the same course, by nine seconds. <\/p>\n

The course is known for being fast, with the world records for both the men – 26:38 by Joshua Cheptegei – and women – 28:46 by Agnes Ngetich – also set in the Valencia 10km.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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Eilish McColgan set a new women’s European 10km record in Valencia – just seven days after her previous record was broken by Belgian Jana van Lent. The 35-year-old Briton knocked three seconds off Van Lent’s time by winning the Valencia Ibercaja on Sunday in a time of 30 minutes seven seconds. McColgan held the record<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5621,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5620\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}