The 19-years-old Tefera, who won the World indoor gold last year, beat Hicham El Guerrouj’s 22-year-old 1500m world indoor record of 3:31.18 by 0.14 seconds.
The third place with a new PB and the third-best mark all-time of 3:31.58 took Yomif Kejelcha, who originally entered this meet with an aim to break the world record.
Australia's Stewart Mcsweyn finished third in a new Australian record.
Men's 1500m results
1 | Samuel TEFERA | WR | ||
2 | Yomif KEJELCHA | PB | ||
3 | Stewart MCSWEYN | NR | ||
4 | Josh KERR | PB | ||
5 | Chris O'HARE | SB | ||
6 | Ryan GREGSON | SB | ||
7 | Vincent KIBET | SB | ||
8 | Neil GOURLEY | PB | ||
9 | Charles GRICE | PB | ||
10 | Elliot GILES | PB | ||
11 | Bethwel BIRGEN | |||
12 | Brimin KIPROTICH | PB | ||
13 | Jake HEYWARD | PB | ||
14 | Piers COPELAND | PB | ||
Andrew BUTCHART | ||||
Bram SOM | ||||
Jordan WILLIAMSZ | ||||
Split Times |
Bram SOM | (NED) | 55.69 | |
Jordan WILLIAMSZ | (AUS) | (57.01) | 1:52.70 |
Yomif KEJELCHA | (ETH) | (56.58) | 2:49.28 |
Samuel TEFERA | (ETH) | (41.76) | 3:31.04 |