Olympics | Bahrain's Yavi wins women's 3,000m steeplechase gold at Paris Games

PARIS, Aug. 6 (Xinhua) -- Bahrain's Winfred Yavi broke the Olympic record to win gold in the women's 3,000m steeplechase at the Paris Games on Tuesday.

The 24-year-old completed the grueling event in 8 minutes, 52.76 seconds, eclipsing the previous Games record of 8:58.81 set by Russian Gulnara Samitova-Galkina at the Beijing 2008 Olympics.

Uganda's Peruth Chemutai took silver in 8:53.34 and Kenya's Faith Cherotich claimed bronze in 8:55.15.