AS OUR SPORT MOVES towards tighter presentation, the 10K has all but disappeared from the European Circuit. Indeed, not a single mark from a European invitational meet appears in this year’s ratings. Instead, the Commonwealth Games served as the year’s most important race, with some late-year races by Kenyans in the Japanese corporate season also playing an important role. Half of our Rankers had only a single race…
JOSHUA CHEPTEGEI edged Mo Ahmed for the Commonwealth title, and those solo races gave them Nos. 1 & 2. Cheptegei was No. 2 last year, behind Mo Farah, now retired from track… Young Rhonex Kipruto twice set World Junior Records on the road, but those don’t count here. Nonetheless, he gets No. 3 after a pair of sub-28:00 races, one of them at high-altitude Nairobi… Then come the two Japanese-based Kenyans with the year’s fastest times, Stanley Waithaka (27:13.01) and Richard Yator (27:14.70)… The U.S. went without a scorer for the first time since ’09.
| JUMP TO U.S. RANKINGS | VIEW WORLD TOP 50 LIST | VIEW U.S. TOP 50 LIST |
| 1. JOSHUA CHEPTEGEI (Uganda) (9/12/96, 5-10½/134) (1.79/61) | |||||
| 27:19.62 | … | 1)Comm G | 4/13 | ||
| 2. MO AHMED (Canada) (1/5/91, 5-8¾/134) (1.75/61) | |||||
| 27:20.56 | … | 2)Comm G | 4/13 | ▷ | 1. Cheptegei |
| 3. RHONEX KIPRUTO (Kenya) (10/12/99) | |||||
| 27:49.6(A) | … | 1)Nairobi | 6/11 | ||
| 27:21.08 | … | 1)World Jr | 7/10 | ||
| 4. STANLEY WAITHAKA (Kenya) (4/09/00) | |||||
| 27:13.01 | … | 1)Yokohama | 11/10 | ||
| 5. RICHARD YATOR (Kenya) (406/98, 5-8/103) (1.73/47) | |||||
| 27:14.70 | … | 1)Yokohama | 10/20 | ||
| 6. RODGERS CHUMO (Kenya) (3/03/97, 5-5/108) (1.65/49) | |||||
| 28:46.5(A) | … | 1)Nairobi | 2/17 | ||
| 27:28.66 | … | 3)Comm G | 4/13 | ▷ | 1. Cheptegei; 2. Ahmed |
| 27:32.45 | … | 1)Kobe | 4/22 | ||
| 27:50.97 | … | 4)Osaka | 9/22 | ▷ | 1. Mwaura; 2. Kosimbei; 3. Ndirangu |
| 7. JACOB KIPLIMO (Uganda) (11/14/00, 5-6/121) (1.68/55) | |||||
| 27:51.3(A) | … | 1)Kampala | 2/24 | ||
| 27:30.25 | … | 4)Comm G | 4/13 | ▷ | 1. Cheptegei; 2. Ahmed; 3. Chumo |
| 27:40.36 | … | 2)World Jr | 7/10 | ▷ | 1. Kipruto |
| 8. MORHAD AMDOUNI (France) (1/21/88, 5-8¾/132) (1.75/60) | |||||
| 27:36.80 | … | 2)Euro Cup | 5/19 | ▷ | 1. Ringer |
| 28:11.22 | … | 1)European Ch | 8/07 | ||
| 9. JAKE ROBERTSON (New Zealand) (11/14/89, 5-10¾/143) (1.80/65) | |||||
| 27:30.90 | … | 5)Comm G | 4/13 | ▷ | 1. Cheptegei; 2. Ahmed; 3. Chumo; 4. Kiplimo |
| 10. HASSAN CHANI (Bahrain) (10/08/91, 5-7¼/121) (1.71/55) | |||||
| 27:38.16 | … | 1)Maia | 6/02 | ||
| 28:35.54 | … | 1)Asian G | 8/26 | ||
| U.S. RANKINGS | ||||
| 1. | Shadrack Kipchirchir (unattached) | 6. | Elkanah Kibet (US Army) | |
| 1)Jordan, 2)USATF | 3)USATF, 2)NACAC | |||
| 2. | Lopez Lomong (Bowerman TC) | 7. | Reed Fischer (Tinman Elite) | |
| 2)Stanford Invitational, 1)USATF, 1)NACAC | 8)Stanford Invitational 4)USATF, 3)NACAC | |||
| 3. | Garrett Heath (Brooks Beasts) | 8. | Dillon Maggard (Utah State) | |
| 4)Jordan, 5)USATF | 15)Stanford Invitational 3)NCAA | |||
| 4. | Tyler Day (Northern Arizona) | 9. | Scott Fauble (Hoka NAZ Elite) | |
| 5)Jordan, 4)NCAA | 10)Jordan | |||
| 5. | Noah Droddy (Saucony Roots Running Project) | 10. | Jacob Thomson (Kentucky) | |
| 6)Jordan | 4)Raleigh Relays, 4)SEC, 6)NCAA | |||
