By Chris Chavez
February 7, 2017
It’s a Tuesday in February and Genzebe Dibaba felt it was the right time to go out to Sabadell, Spain and record her seventh world record.
Dibaba won the 2,000 meter race in 5:23.75, which shattered Gabriela Szabo’s previous world best from 1998 by nearly seven seconds. The IAAF clarified that the 2,000 meters is not an official world record event indoors but Dibaba gets the world record because she also beat Sonia O’Sullivan’s outdoor mark of 5:25.36.
Watch the end of the race below:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NM7znVcie1M
Dibaba now holds the outdoor 1,500 meter world record (3:50.07) and indoor world records in the 1,500 (3:55.17), indoor mile (4:13.31), 2,000 (5:23.75), 3,000 (8:16.60), two miles (9:00.48) and 5,000 (14:18.86). She races again on Friday at the Copernicus Cup in Poland but still has a long way to go before catching Ashrita Furman’s 551 official Guinness Records.
Chris Chavez
Chris Chavez launched CITIUS MAG in 2016 as a passion project while working full-time for Sports Illustrated. He covered the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro and grew his humble blog into a multi-pronged media company. He completed all six World Marathon Majors and is an aspiring sub-five-minute miler.