Tirunesh Dibaba breaks women's 5,000-meter mark
June 6th, 2008 | by ethiopianreview.com | published in Sport
Ethiopia's Tirunesh Dibaba celebrates after winning the women's 10,000m at the 2007 IAAF World Athletics Championships, in Osaka. (Adrian Dennis/Getty Images)
(CBC) — Ethiopia’s Tirunesh Dibaba set a new world 5,000m record at the Bislett Games Golden League Meet in Oslo Friday.
Her time of 14:11.15 smashed her fellow Ethiopian Meseret Defar’s mark of 14:16.63 on [...]