Athletics - IAAF Athletics Diamond League meeting Lausanne - Stade Olympique de la Pontaise, Lausanne, Switzerland - 25/8/2016 - Genzebe Dibaba of Ethiopia celebrates winning the women's 3,000 m competition. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse
(Reuters) - Ethiopia's Genzebe Dibaba ran the fastest ever women's 2,000 meters at the indoor Miting Internacional de Catalunya meeting in Sabadell, Spain on Tuesday.
Her time of five minutes 23.75 seconds sliced almost seven seconds off the previous indoor world record of 5:30.53 set by Romania's Gabriela Szabo in 1998.
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