British runner clocks 30:07 in Castellón as Yann Schrub of France beats Andreas Almgren’s males’s Euro file with 26:43.
Megan Keith has proven a superb return to type this winter and her nice outcomes continued in Castellón on Sunday (Feb 22) when she took one second off Eilish McColgan’s European 10km file for girls with 30:07.
The Spanish street race has a popularity for producing quick occasions and there was a males’s European file as effectively from Yann Schrub of France as he clocked 26:43 to beat Andreas Almgren’s mark by two seconds.
Almgren equalled his outdated file with 26:45 shut behind Schrub though the victory went to Harbert Kibet of Uganda with 26:39 whereas Caroline Makandi Gitonga of Kenya was first girl house in 29:34.
Not solely did Keith break the file however she had the satisfaction of beating McColgan, who completed sixth in 30:35 as she continues her preparations to run the London Marathon in two months’ time.
McColgan ran 30:08 in Valencia in January on the identical day Almgren set his 26:45 European file.
Solely 12 months in the past Keith felt she was at “floor zero” following an injury-enforced lay off after the 2024 Paris Olympics.
The 23-year-old, who is predicated in Edinburgh, steadily constructed again into type final yr, although, culminating with tenth place within the 10,000m on the World Championships in Tokyo.
In December she completed runner-up to Nadia Battocletti of Italy within the European Cross Nation Championships in Portugal. In January she got here twenty fifth within the World Cross Nation Champs in Florida after going off onerous after which struggling within the warmth within the latter phases.
Schrub, 29, gained the Euro Cross in 2023 and was ninth on the planet 5000m closing final yr. Like Keith, he raced on the World Cross in January and positioned eleventh within the males’s race, whereas on the monitor he clocked 7:29.38 for 3000m indoors earlier this month.
