Ethiopia’s Gudaf Tsegay breaks women’s 1500m indoor world record
Addis Ababa, February 10, 2021 (FBC) -Ethiopian athlete Gudaf Tsegay has broken the women’s world record for the indoor 1500 metres after posting a time of three minutes, 53.09 seconds during a meeting in Lievin.
Ethiopian Tsegay on Tuesday beat by more than two seconds the previous record set by her compatriot Genzebe Dibaba in Karlsruhe in 2014.
“I’m very happy to set a world indoor record,” said Tsegay. “I have been training really hard and I set myself a target to break the world indoor record.”
Another Ethiopian athlete, Getnet Wale fell 0.08sec short of the men’s 3000m indoor world record, his time of 7min 24.98sec just shy of Daniel Komen’s mark from 1998.
Solomon Barega, Lemecha Girma and Berihu Aregawi also from Ethiopia finished 2nd, 3rd and 4th, respectively.