World Athletics announced on Monday that several new world records were officially ratified along with an adjustment to a record from 2025 following a doping violation.
Five records from January to April were certified, including Josh Hoey’s 1:42.50 men’s 800m mark from January at the New Balance Grand Prix in Boston and Toshikazu Yamanishi’s 1:20:34 men’s half marathon race walk at the Japanese Half Marathon Race Walking Championships in Kobe in February.
Saron Berhe’s women’s U20 1,500m short track record in 4:01.23 at the Czech Indoor Gala in February, Cooper Lutkenhaus’ 1:44.03 U20 men’s 800m short track time at the ASICS Sound Invite also in February and Gout Gout’s U20 19.67 in the men’s 200m at the 2026 Australian Athletics Championships in April were also approved by World Athletics.
Yomif Kejelcha was upgraded to a world record in the men’s 10km after he clocked a 26:31 in February 2025 to win the 10k FACSA Castello 2025. His time will stand as the new records after Rhonex Kipruto’s 26:24 from the 10k Valencia Ibercaja in January 2020 was disqualified after Kipruto was issued a 6-year ban for doping violations.
The Court of Arbitration for Sport partially upheld an appeal by Kipruto in April that was filed against World Athletics and the suspension was reduced to five years.
Kipruto’s results from September 2018, the start date of his provisional suspension, to May 2023 will be permanently ineligible.
