(Reuters) - Julien Wanders and Sifan Hassan won the inaugural 5 kilometre Herculis in Monaco on Sunday and in doing so claimed the official male and female world records respectively.
The distance has only been recognised as a world record event by the governing IAAF since January last year with previous faster times described as 'unofficial world bests'.
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