MONACO — The IAAF has ratified world records set by long-distance runner Dennis Kipruto Kimetto and Olympic decathlon champion Ashton Eaton. The Kenyan runner clocked 1 hour, 11 minutes, 18 seconds at the 25-kilometer road race in Berlin on May 6, beating the old mark of 1:11:50 held by his countryman Samuel Kiplimo Kosgei which was set in the same race two years earlier. The American decathlete Eaton tallied 9,039 points at a meeting in Eugene, Oregon in June this year, topping Czech athlete Roman Sebrle's 11-year-old mark of 9,026. Eaton is only the second decathlete to break the 9,000-point. — Agencies
