Kenyan Kibiwott Kandie smashes half marathon world record 

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Kenya’s Kibiwott Kandie broke the world record on Sunday for the half marathon by 29 seconds running a time of 57:32 in Valencia, Spain. That’s fast. But, it was also a very fast race. Kandie was one of four men who broke the world-record time set by Geoffrey Kamworor in 2019.

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