Genzebe Dibaba Sets African 1500m Record of 3:54.11 in Barcelona

Published by IAAF on July 8, 2015

Genzebe Dibaba set an African 1500m record of 3:54.11 in Barcelona’s Estadi Joan Serrahima stadium on Wednesday evening (8).

Dibaba arrived in the Catalan city in the wake of her 5000m personal best of 14:15.41 when winning at the IAAF Diamond League meeting in Paris on Saturday, looking for a fast time but also not sure about how much her efforts in the French capital had taken out of her.

Not much it seems.

She followed the Cuban pacemaker Yuneisy Santiusty through to 700 metres but with two laps to go she took off on her own and turned the race into a time trial.