Twenty-five-year-old Edward Cheserek won the Carlsbad 5000 on Sunday in 13:29 to match the IAAF’s road 5km world record set by Switzerland’s Julian Wanders in February. The win netted King Ches his first world record, a $5,000 payday and his sixth straight victory on the roads dating back to 2017.

Edward Cheserek crossing the finish for the win! #Carlsbad5000 pic.twitter.com/eFqdEZInTu

— Carlsbad 5000 (@Carlsbad_5000) April 7, 2019

The hype was real as Edward Cheserek ? (13:29) tied the @iaaforg World Record today at #Carlsbad5000!! pic.twitter.com/74e1o5q4SK

— Carlsbad 5000 (@Carlsbad_5000) April 7, 2019

Cheserek did not, however, come anywhere close to breaking the Carlsbad course record, as the 13:00 from Sammy Kipketer in 2000 remains the fastest road 5km in history. 

Logic follows that Kipketer’s mark should be recognized as the official world record, but then again logic doesn’t always follow when it comes to track and field; Kipketer’s time is recognized by the Association of Road Racing Statisticians (ARRS) as a world record, but crucially, not by the sport’s official governing body, the IAAF.

The discrepancy comes from the IAAF’s awkward and confusing unveiling of an official 5km record in late 2017, which ignored all performances that had come before it. That chicanery is how Wanders’ 13:29 in Monaco on Feb. 1—which bettered Bernard Kibet’s 13:30 5k split in a 10k from 2018—became the new world world record, and why it was subsequently met with a drove of eye rolls and shrugs.

But none of that likely matters to Cheserek, who won easily on Sunday by 25 seconds over Kenyan David Bett.