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Welcome, fellow runners and fitness enthusiasts. Fast running exists on a spectrum, and then there's whatever Jacob Kiplimo did in Barcelona. The fastest half marathon ever recorded is 56:42, run by Uganda's Jacob Kiplimo on 16 February 2025. That's roughly 2:41 per kilometer, sustained for 21.1 km. Read that pace again. It's what a lot of recreational runners can barely hold for a single kilometer, let alone twenty-one of them. Kiplimo became the first person to break 57 minutes for the distance that day. His 15 km split, 40:07, was itself the fastest ever run at that checkpoint. World Athletics called it the biggest single jump in the men's half-marathon record. Then came the catch: the run wasn't eligible for ratification, because the course didn't fully meet record regulations. That catch matters more than it sounds like it should. Search "fastest half marathon ever" and you'll get two different answers depending on whether you mean th...