On the eve of her 26th birthday, the Olympic 1,500-metres silver medallist ran a time of 5min 23.75sec in Catalonia.
Also the outdoor 1,500m world record holder, Dibaba has the best
indoor marks for 1,500m, the mile, 3,000m, two miles and 5,000m. Dibaba’s 2,000m time knocked almost seven seconds off the old record by Romania’s Gabriela Szabo, which had stood since 1998.
Her time is also faster than the outdoor 2,000m mark set by Ireland’s Sonia O’Sullivan in 1994.
Elsewhere in Sabadell, European champion Adam Kszczot won the 800m in
1:46.31 with Spanish record-holder Kevin Lopez taking second place in
1:46.58.
European 5000m silver medallist Adel Mechaal was a convincing winner
of the 3000m, clocking 7:48.39 to finish more than two seconds ahead of
Italy’s Marouan Razine.
