Tirunesh Dibaba of Ethiopia in action
NIJMEGEN, Netherlands — Ethiopia’s double Olympic champion Tirunesh Dibaba improved the 15km world record on Sunday on her way to victory at the 26th edition of the Zevenheuvelenloop 15Km in Nijmegen.
The 5,000m and 10,000m Olympic champion clocked 46min 28sec to better the previous mark of 46:55 which was set by Japan’s Kayoko Fukushi in Marugame on February 5, 2006.
“Although I trained a lot together with my husband for this race, a roadrace is something different,” she said. “I did not know what I could expect. Therefore I was not that fast in the beginning,” she said on the IAAF website.
“I loved the course and I was feeling fine. After 10 kilometres I pressed the pace and in the final three kilometres it felt like flying. It feels good as you hear after the finish that your husband also has won.”
Four-time world champion Dibaba, 24, already holds the world record over 5,000m. She has also won two world cross-country titles.
In the men’s event, Ethiopia’s Sileshi Sihine won a sprint finish in 42:14 ahead of Uganda’s Nicholas Kiprono.
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