Dibaba Sets 1500m World Indoor Record
Saturday, 01 February 2014
The 23 year old Ethiopian middle-distance star, Genzebe Dibaba, set a new women's world indoor 1500m record of 3:55.17 on Saturday at the International Indoor Meeting Weltklasse Karlsruhe.
Dibaba's pace setter, Sonja Roman of Slovania paced Dibaba through the 800m (2:09.0) 0- more of a sub 4 min pace. Dibaba then took the lead and went through the1200m marking 3:10.5. It was then Dibaba against the clock;
Dibaba surged last 300m in 44.5 seconds shattering the previous world indoor record.
RESULTS WOMEN'S 1500m
| 1 | DIBABA, Genzebe | ETH | WR 3:55.17 |
| 2 | CICHOCKA, Angelika | POL | 4:08.15 |
| 3 | EMBAYE, Axumawit | ETH | PB 4:08.88 |
| 4 | MAGNANI, Margherita | ITA | PB 4:09.27 |
| 5 | BRONIATOWSKA, Katarzyna | POL | PB 4:11.42 |
| 6 | MACIAS, Isabel | ESP | 4:12.06 |
| 7 | CLAUDE-BOXBERGER, Ophelie | FRA | PB 4:13.23 |
| 8 | KOBELEVA, Elena | RUS | PB 4:13.42 |
| ROMAN, Sonja | SLO | Pace DNF | |
| 400m | Roman, Sonja (SLO) | 01:02.4 | |
| 800 | Roman, Sonja (SLO) | 02:09.0 | |
| 1200 | Dibaba, Genzebe (ETH) | 03:10.5 |
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