{"id":1061,"date":"2017-02-08T10:56:03","date_gmt":"2017-02-08T10:56:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/track\/?p=1061"},"modified":"2017-02-09T11:07:07","modified_gmt":"2017-02-09T11:07:07","slug":"genzebe-dibaba-sets-2000m-best-sabadell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/track\/news\/genzebe-dibaba-sets-2000m-best-sabadell","title":{"rendered":"Genzebe Dibaba sets 2000m best in Sabadell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/track\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/genzebe-dibaba.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1066\" title=\"genzebe dibaba\" src=\"http:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/track\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/genzebe-dibaba.jpg\" alt=\"genzebe dibaba\" width=\"580\" height=\"324\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/track\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/genzebe-dibaba.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/track\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/genzebe-dibaba-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sabadell, Spain &#8211; Genzebe Dibaba of Ethiopia, the reigning 1500m World Champion, added to her haul of records by breaking world indoor 2000m record* at the Miting Internacional de Catalunya in Sabadell, Spain on 7th February 2017.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Taking over from the pacemaker around the half-way mark of 1000m, which was reached in a time of 2:42.65. The three-time world indoor champion, showed her superiority by accelerating away from her younger sister Anna and Morocco&#8217;s Siham Hilali.<\/p>\n<p>Dibaba stopped the clock at 5:23.75, shaving just under seven seconds off the former world indoor best held by Gabriela Szabo in 1998. Although the 2000m isn&#8217;t an official world record event indoors, Dibaba\u2019s performance was in a class of its own and can be seen as the outright world record as it is also quicker than Ireland&#8217;s Sonia O\u2019Sullivan\u2019s outdoor mark of 5:25.36.<\/p>\n<p>The Ethiopian, Dibaba, now holds the fastest indoor times ever recorded over 1500m, mile, 2000m, 3000m, two miles and 5000m.<\/p>\n<p>In other events 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.<\/p>\n<p>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\u2019s Marouan Razine.<\/p>\n<p>*Subject to the usual ratification procedures<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4nsBbOhDRtc\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sabadell, Spain &#8211; Genzebe Dibaba of Ethiopia, the reigning 1500m World Champion, added to her haul of records by breaking world indoor 2000m record* at the Miting Internacional de Catalunya in Sabadell, Spain on 7th February 2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1066,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19,8,4,1,643],"tags":[592,642,644],"class_list":["post-1061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe","category-events","category-featured","category-news","category-spain","tag-genzebe-dibaba","tag-sabadell","tag-spain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/track\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/track\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/track\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/track\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/track\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1061"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/track\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1067,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/track\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1061\/revisions\/1067"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/track\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/track\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/track\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/track\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}