{"id":7288,"date":"2014-02-07T06:44:21","date_gmt":"2014-02-07T11:44:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/?p=7288"},"modified":"2014-02-07T06:45:24","modified_gmt":"2014-02-07T11:45:24","slug":"genzebe-dibaba-breaks-world-indoor-3000m-record-in-stockholm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/7288","title":{"rendered":"Genzebe Dibaba Breaks World Indoor 3000m Record in Stockholm"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"_72813181_161793478\"<\/a>Just five days after breaking the world indoor 1500m record, Ethiopia\u2019s Genzebe Dibaba smashed the world indoor 3000m record* at Stockholm\u2019s XL Galan, an IAAF Indoor Permit meeting, with a stunning 8:16.60 run on Thursday.<\/p>\n

IAAF Atheletics has reported that with a race pattern strikingly similar to the one she used when running 3:55.17 in Karlsruhe, the race started out reasonably fast and ended even quicker.<\/p>\n

At 1000m (2:48.7), by which time the pacemakers had dropped out, Dibaba was on par with Meseret Defar\u2019s world record pace. At 1500m (4:12.0) she was two seconds ahead and at 2000m (5:34.25) she was almost five seconds faster.<\/p>\n

As she crossed the finish line in 8:16.60, she had cut more than seven seconds from the previous record of 8:23.72 set seven years ago by Defar. Expressed in splits, she had halves of 4:12\/4:04 and kilometres of 2:48\/2:46\/2:42.<\/p>\n

Dibaba covered the final 2000m in 5:27.95 \u2013 more than two seconds quicker than the world indoor record for that event.<\/p>\n

Her winning time is also an outright African record, bettering the 8:23.23 set outdoors by Edith Masai in 2002. It is the fastest performance indoors or outdoors since 1993. Only three women \u2013 Chinese trio Wang Junxia, Qu Yunxia and Zhang Linli \u2013 have ever run faster.<\/p>\n

To underline the magnitude of Dibaba\u2019s performance, the world indoor champion over the distance, Hellen Obiri, improved her PB by six seconds to finish second with a Kenyan indoor record of 8:29.99, but still could not get within 13 seconds of the winner.<\/p>\n

The top nine finishers, seven of whom dipped below 8:50, all set indoor PBs.<\/p>\n

Dibaba\u2019s recent exploits also changed the landscape for former compatriot Abeba Aregawi. The world 1500m champion ran 3:58.40 here last year to just miss the world indoor record by 0.12. Today she fulfilled her ambition to run faster than that, but her 3:57.91 wasn\u2019t quite a world record as it was more than two-and-a-half seconds slower than Dibaba\u2019s record-breaking run in Karlsruhe last Saturday.<\/p>\n

Nevertheless, Aregawi was content with setting a European indoor record. At half way, Aregawi was almost a second ahead of Dibaba\u2019s record pace, but despite a final 400m of 61.5, she was unable to match Dibaba\u00b4s storming 59.6 for her final two laps five days ago.<\/p>\n

In second, Ethiopia\u2019s Gudaf Tsegay set a world youth indoor best of 4:08.47.<\/p>\n

Of course Dibaba\u2019s world record and Aregawi\u2019s second-fastest performance of all-time were the absolute highlights of the evening, but there were many other highlights for the almost 9000 fans in the stands.<\/p>\n

The report is by IAAF’s official news website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Just five days after breaking the world indoor 1500m record, Ethiopia\u2019s Genzebe Dibaba smashed the world indoor 3000m record* at Stockholm\u2019s XL Galan, an IAAF Indoor Permit meeting, with a stunning 8:16.60 run on Thursday. IAAF Atheletics has reported that…<\/span> Read more ›<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":72,"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":[1364],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7288"}],"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\/72"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7288\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}