European Beneath-23 champion Rory Leonard has knocked six seconds off the British males’s 10km file set by Mo Farah.
The Morpeth Harriers runner, 23, ran a time of 27 minutes 38 seconds on the Valencia 10km.
However that was solely sufficient to complete fifteenth on a 10km course broadly thought to be one of many quickest on the worldwide highway circuit.
The earlier British file was set by Farah in 2010 and equalled by Emile Cairess in 2022.
Fellow Briton Nick Rose clocked 27:34 in 1984 however that point was by no means ratified as a file.
The 10km file refers to instances set in highway occasions and is completely different to the ten,000m, which is on the observe. Farah retains the British 10,000m file of 26:46.57.
Sweden’s Andreas Almgren received in Valencia in a European file time of 26:53, whereas Kenya’s Hellen Lobun received the ladies’s occasion in 29:30.
Nice Britain’s Olympic triathlon champion Alex Yee, who’s coaching to run this yr’s London Marathon, completed twenty ninth in a time of 28:07, whereas fellow Briton Amy-Eloise Neale was 14th within the girls’s race in 31:15.
Leonard represented Nice Britain within the 10,000m eventually yr’s European Championships, ending nineteenth, whereas he received the European Beneath-23 title over the identical distance in Espoo, Finland, in 2023.
