Beth Potter runs second-fastest road 5km ever

Britain's Beth Potter ran the second-fastest road 5km ever by a female athlete at a race in the Lancashire village of Barrowford.

Scottish runner Potter, 29, who competed at the 2016 Olympics, clocked a time of 14 minutes 41 seconds on Saturday.

"It was really good to get a race in the early season but that was beyond my expectations," Potter said.

"It all started to sink in when I had about a kilometre to go."

She told BBC Radio 5 Live: "I saw the clock said 11 something and I was trying to do the maths in my head, I was convinced the clock was wrong, I couldn't believe it."

Only Kenya's Joyciline Jepkosgei has ever run faster - recording 14:32 during a 10km race in Prague in 2017.

After making the move to triathlon four years ago, Potter said she hoped to be competing at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics but she missed out on selection.

"It's frustrating because I feel like I'm an in-form athlete at the moment," she said.

Potter finished 34th for Great Britain in the 10,000m at the Rio 2016 Olympics before switching to triathlon, winning gold at the 2019 European Championships.

Elsewhere, Kenya's Ruth Chepngetich smashed the world half-marathon mark in Istanbul on Sunday.

The 26-year-old took 29 seconds off the world record with a time of 1:04:02.

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