Genzebe Dibaba To Chase Indoor 5,000m Record in Stockholm

Published by IAAF on January 14, 2015

Genzebe Dibaba will take a tilt at the world indoor 5000m record at the XL Galan meeting in Stockholm on 19 February, organisers of the IAAF Indoor Permit meeting announced on Wednesday (14).

The current mark is 14:24.37 set by Dibaba’s compatriot Meseret Defar at the same venue back in 2009.

Stockholm’s Ericsson Globe arena was also where Dibaba ran a world indoor 3000m record of 8:16.60 last year, taking more than seven seconds off the previous record which had also been held by Defar.

It was the second of Dibaba's three record-breaking runs last winter, coming after her 1500m world indoor record in Karlsruhe and before her two miles world indoor best in Birmingham.