Ethiopian Berihu Aregawi (22) became the fifth fastest man in history over 5000m with a time of 12 min 40 sec 45 Friday evening in Lausanne (Switzerland).
With a cool temperature (about 17 degrees), Aregawi, fourth at the Tokyo Olympics in the 10,000m, did the entire second part of the race in the lead, letting go of all his competitors, up to the Ugandan world record holder Joshua Cheptegei (2nd in 12:41.61).
The world 5000m comes alive two weeks after an already very fast race in Oslo, where Ethiopian Yomif Kejelcha and Ugandan Joshua Kiplimo ran in a similar time (12:41.73). In the 100m, the Ivorian Marie-Josée Ta Lou won her third Diamond League race of the season in 10 sec 88 (-0.8 m/s wind), in the absence of her great Jamaican rivals.
