Dillu dominates Cardiff Half 2025 with new record

In the Cardiff Half Marathon 2025, Yismaw Dillu broke a men’s record.

The 20-year-old Ethiopian beat Kenya’s Leonard Langat by seven seconds to complete the record-breaking 59 minutes 23 seconds that he completed on the tape.

Miriam Chebet, the Kenyan who won the women’s title last year, defended her title by finishing in 1:06:36, finishing in 2024.

Ethiopian debutant Wudinesh Alemu came in third (1: 08: 07), while Ethiopian debutant Alem Nigus came in second place (1: 07: 32).

In a wheelchair race victory time of 53:46, Callum Hall, a Leeds native, was ahead of Sam Kolek from Poland (57: 28) and Josh Hickinbottom (59: 07), who was coached by Welsh great Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson’s husband Ian.

More than 29, 000 places were allocated for the 22nd edition of the 13 km (21 km) race across the Welsh capital led by Dillu.