{"id":10040,"date":"2016-02-18T09:25:33","date_gmt":"2016-02-18T14:25:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/?p=10040"},"modified":"2016-02-18T09:25:33","modified_gmt":"2016-02-18T14:25:33","slug":"ethiopian-runner-genzebe-dibaba-breaks-26-year-old-indoor-womens-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/10040","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopian Runner Genzebe Dibaba Breaks 26-Year-Old Indoor Women\u2019s Record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/dt.common.streams.StreamServer.cls_.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\" size-medium wp-image-10041 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/dt.common.streams.StreamServer.cls_-300x212.jpg\" alt=\"dt.common.streams.StreamServer.cls\" width=\"300\" height=\"212\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/dt.common.streams.StreamServer.cls_-300x212.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/dt.common.streams.StreamServer.cls_-220x155.jpg 220w, http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/dt.common.streams.StreamServer.cls_.jpg 801w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Ethiopia\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/early-lead\/wp\/2016\/02\/17\/ethiopian-genzebe-dibaba-smashes-26-year-old-world-record-for-indoor-mile\/\">Genzebe Dibaba<\/a> broke the women\u2019s world indoor mile record on Wednesday in Stockholm\u2019s Ericsson Globe Arena, where she has set three consecutive world records.<\/p>\n<p>Dibaba, 25, broke the record set 26 years ago by Romanian Doina Melinte in a time of 4 minutes, 13.31 seconds. Melinte\u2019s time of 4 minutes, 17.14 seconds was set in East Rutherford, New Jersey about a year before Dibaba was born in Ethiopia.<\/p>\n<p>Dibaba has now earned five world records, which include an outdoor 1,500 meters mark and indoor records in 15,000, 3,000 and 5,000 meters respectively.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m delighted,\u201d Dibaba said after her record victory.\u201cI had thought I would run 4:13 or 4:12, and now it was 4:13, so I\u2019m very happy with that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dibaba\u2019s victory also set a record as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2016\/feb\/17\/genzebe-dibaba-ayanleh-souleiman-world-indoor-records-globen-galan-stockholm\">the second all-time fastest mile run<\/a> in both indoors and outdoor events. Russia\u2019s Svetlana Masterkova\u2019s 1996 outdoor record of 4:12:56 still holds the first place.<\/p>\n<p>Ethiopians Gudaf Tsegay and Axumawit Embaye came second and third respectively after finishing 11 seconds behind Dibaba.<\/p>\n<p>Dibaba\u2019s training partner<a href=\"http:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/sport\/athletics-genzebe-dibaba-breaks-26-year-old-world-indoor-mile-record\"> Ayanleh Souleiman<\/a> set a new men\u2019s world indoor 1,000 meters record. With a time of 2:14:20, the Djibouti runner broke Kipketer Wilson\u2019s record by 0.76 seconds. Kenyan born Danish athlete Wilson, set the record of 2:14:96 in 2000.<\/p>\n<p>Photo: AP<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ethiopia\u2019s Genzebe Dibaba broke the women\u2019s world indoor mile record on Wednesday in Stockholm\u2019s Ericsson Globe Arena, where she has set three consecutive world records. Dibaba, 25, broke the record set 26 years ago by Romanian Doina Melinte in a<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span> <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/10040\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[44,46,1],"tags":[4668,4669,4499,4667,4670,4666],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10040"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10040"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10042,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10040\/revisions\/10042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}