{"id":9228,"date":"2026-02-22T12:44:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T12:44:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/?p=9228"},"modified":"2026-02-22T12:44:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T12:44:14","slug":"megan-keith-sets-new-european-10km-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/?p=9228","title":{"rendered":"Megan Keith sets new European 10km record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Megan Keith set a women&#8217;s European 10km record in Castellon &#8211; taking one second off the previous best set by Scottish compatriot Eilish McColgan.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 23-year-old finished fourth in the Spanish road race in 30 minutes seven seconds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">McColgan was sixth in 30:35 as the 35-year-old continues her preparation for the London Marathon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Caroline Gitonga came first in 29:34, in front of fellow Kenyan Nelvin Jepkemboi, with Chaltu Dida of Ethiopia third.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">McColgan had reclaimed her European 10km record in Valencia in January &#8211; seven days after it was broken.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">McColgan had 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 Belgian Van Lent in Nice on 4 January.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Keith finished 10th in the 10,000m at the 2025 World Championships in Tokyo and was second at December&#8217;s European Cross Country Championships in Portugal.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Megan Keith set a women&#8217;s European 10km record in Castellon &#8211; taking one second off the previous best set by Scottish compatriot Eilish McColgan. The 23-year-old finished fourth in the Spanish road race in 30 minutes seven seconds. McColgan was sixth in 30:35 as the 35-year-old continues her preparation for the London Marathon. Caroline Gitonga<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9229,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9228","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\/9228","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=9228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9228\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}