FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
FLORENCE KIPLAGAT PRESENTED WITH THE AIMS WORLD RECORD AWARD
The world running organisation the Association of International Marathons
and Distance Races (AIMS) is delighted to announce that the Kenyan athlete
Florence Kiplagat has been awarded the AIMS World Record Award in
recognition of her world record breaking Half Marathon time of 1:05:09 set
in the eDreams Mitja Marató de Barcelona on 15 February 2015.
Today (Friday 27 November 2015) in Delhi (India), Florence’s record
breaking achievement was recognised by AIMS during a presentation at the
Airtel Delhi Half Marathon Media Centre. Florence was presented with her
award in advance of the Airtel Delhi Half Marathon in which she is
scheduled to compete. The presentation was jointly made by AIMS General
Secretary Hugh Jones and Vivek Singh, Joint Managing Director of Procam
International, the promoters of the Airtel Delhi Half Marathon.
Kiplagat (28) broke the world record at the eDreams Mitja Marató de
Barcelona in a time of 1:05:09 and in doing so, broke her own world record
set in the same event in 2014. Florence improved her 2014 time of 1:05:12
by 3 seconds. Florence received the AIMS World Record Award for the first
time in recognition of her 2014 world record in October of that year.
Florence’s time of 1:05:09 has been officially recognised as the world
record by the IAAF (International Association of Athletics Federations) and
by AIMS (Association of International Marathons and Distance Races which
represents over 390 distance running events in 108 countries and
territories). AIMS set the world record criteria for performances on the
road later adopted by the IAAF.
AIMS have been awarding athletes in recognition of world record breaking
performances since 1985. This is the third time that Florence has been
given an award by AIMS. In addition to the AIMS world record Award in 2014
detailed above, her outstanding performances throughout that year were
recognised with the AIMS Best Marathon Runner Award in November 2014 at the
AIMS Gala Dinner in the home of the marathon, the city of Athens, Greece.
Vivek Singh, Joint Managing Director of Procam International, the promoters
of the Airtel Delhi Half Marathon comments: "I am delighted that Florence’s
world record-breaking feat is being recognised by AIMS with a World Record
Award. We are delighted to have Florence join us again this year and
honoured to present our defending champion with this award at the Airtel
Delhi Half Marathon 2015. We would like to thank AIMS and their sponsors
for choosing our event to host this prestigious ceremony."
AIMS President Paco Borao comments: "We are delighted to present Florence
with this award on behalf of the 390 AIMS members in 108 countries and
territories throughout the world. Florence is an exceptional athlete and we
are pleased to recognise her record breaking achievement with this award."
AIMS General Secretary Hugh Jones comments: "I think athletes all round the
world will have been astonished by what Florence has achieved, particularly
in improving the world half marathon record twice by an overall margin of
41 seconds. It is a pleasure to recognise such a fine athlete."
Florence Kiplagat comments: "I am very pleased to be recognised for the
third time by AIMS and their members around the world with this award. I
would like to thank AIMS and their sponsors for presenting me with this
illustrious award."
AIMS proposed the technical criteria for World Records on the road that the
IAAF has adopted for prescribed distances.
The full conditions to be satisfied are:
a) The event must be sanctioned either by the IAAF and/or the National
Federation and conducted under IAAF Rules.
b) The athlete achieving the IAAF Road World Record must be eligible to
compete under IAAF Rules.
c) The course must be measured by an "A" or "B" IAAF/AIMS approved measurer
as defined in IAAF Rule 240.3.
d) The start and finish points on a course, measured along a straight line
between them, shall not be further apart than 50% of the race distance.
e) The decrease in elevation between the start and finish shall not exceed
an average of one in a thousand, i.e. 1m per km.
f) Either the course measurer that certified the course or another "A" or
"B" measurer in possession of the complete measurement data and maps must
validate that the course measured was the course run by riding in the lead
vehicle.
g) The course must be verified on site (i.e. within two weeks before, on
the day of the race or as soon as practical after the race), preferably by
a different IAAF/AIMS "A" measurer from the one that did the original
measurement.
h) The athlete must undergo a doping control on the date of the race.
i) For the Road Relay, the race should be run in stages of 5km, 10km, 5km,
10km, 5km, 7.195km.
Road World Records set at intermediate distances within a race must comply
with the above conditions and be timed according to IAAF Rules. The
intermediate distances must have been measured and marked during the course
measurement.
It is recommended that Member Federations adopt the Rules of the IAAF for
the conduct of their own athletic competitions.
About AIMS
AIMS is a member based organisation and since being established in 1982 has
grown to a membership of more than 390 of the world’s leading distance
races, from over 108 countries and territories. AIMS Members come from
every continent on the planet and include the Athens Marathon, The
Authentic formed on the legend of Pheidippides, the Greek soldier-runner
who ran from the town of Marathon to Athens in 490 BC to announce the
Persians had been defeated in the ‘Battle of Marathon’. Other AIMS members
include many of the world’s greatest distance races in history such as the
Berlin, Boston, Chicago, New York & Tokyo Marathons. The three key
objectives of AIMS are:
1. To foster and promote distance running throughout the world
2. To work with the International Association of Athletic Federations
(IAAF) on all matters relating to international road races.
3. To exchange information, knowledge and expertise among members of the
association
For further information on AIMS please visit: aimsworldrunning.org
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