LONDON: Ethiopia’s Kenenisa Bekele broke the 5,000m indoor world record and Marion Jones won her first indoor long jump event at a Grand Prix meeting held at Birmingham’s National Indoor Arena on Friday.
Bekele lit up the night as he beat the previous time of 12:50.38 set by compatriot Haile Gebrselassie at the same event in 1999. The 21-year-old made his mark when he beat his mentor to gold in the world outdoor 10,000m in Paris last year.
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