New feat of policeman Yeman Crippa, who sets the new European road record for 5 km in Herzogenaurach, Germany. 13:14 is the time that brings him to the top of the continental lists of all time over this distance, lowering by four seconds the 13:18 of the French Jimmy Gressier in Monte Carlo in 2020. Crippa thus confirms his class after the Italian record of 59: 26 in a half marathon in Naples in February, and is now preparing for a super season on the track at the Eugene World Championships and the European Championships in Munich.
The man from Trentino trained by Massimo Pegoretti had just returned from a month of training in Morocco at the 1700 meters of Ifrane, and in today’s event in Bavaria he ranks in seventh place, in a race dominated by the Ethiopian Yomif Kejelcha, author of the third world performance always with 12:53, in front of Kenyans Nicholas Kimeli (12:55) and Levy Kibet (13:02). For Crippa this is a six-second improvement compared to the previous personal best (and Italian record) of 13:20 signed at the BOclassic in December 2020.
But the race held today in Bavaria reserves another record in an Italian key. For Nadia Battocletti it is in fact one national record after another, and the impression is that it is only the beginning. In seven days, for her it is the second Italian record and the third in a few months if we also consider that of 3000 indoors. Last Saturday you took the scepter of 2 miles on the track in Milan, today that of 5 km on the road in Germany, in Herzogenaurach. A limit that had resisted for 21 years, and that was 15:45 of the late Maura Viceconte. Today that record is broken by the pure talent of the thirty from the Fiamme Azzurre, capable of expressing herself in 15:13 and finishing in sixth place in the race that lives on the solo of the Ethiopian Senbere Teferi (14:37). On the podium also the other Ethiopian Medina Eisa (14:53) and the Kenyan Mercy Cherono (14:56). Fifth and sixth place again for Ethiopia (Melknet Wudu 15:11 and Nigsti Haftu 15:12) but Nadia, followed in Germany by her father-coach Giuliano, is glued to the two of them and is the first European at the finish line, with a progress 42 seconds off the previous personal best of 15:55.