10,000m and 5000m world record holder Joshua Cheptegei from Uganda wtns the Tata Steel World 25K Kolkata 2025 men’s title on Sunday, December 21, 2025.
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Uganda’s 5,000m and 10,000m World Record holder Joshua Cheptegei and Ethiopia’s Degitu Azimeraw convincingly took the men’s and women’s crowns, while Gulveer Singh and Seema, the best home runners, rewrote Indian event records in the 10th Tata Steel World 25K Kolkata here on Sunday.
In his ‘second home,’ double Olympic champion Cheptegei clocked 1:11:49 to beat current World marathon champion Alphonce Simbu for a prize-money of $15,000.
Published – December 21, 2025 05:44 pm IST