Record-Breaker Shannon Rowbury

Published by Athletics Weekly on December 1, 2015

With less than a year to go until Rio 2016, the women’s 1500m is set to be one of the stand-out events of the Games following one of the most exciting seasons in the discipline’s history.

Led by the brilliant world champion Genzebe Dibaba, whose world record in Monaco was undoubtedly the middle-distance highlight of the summer, are a glorious cast of females who all brought their best to the table in 2015 as they finally removed theevent from the darkness of Asli Cakir Alptekin’s drug-fuelled victory at London 2012.

Although a number of the current stars are heading toward their first Olympic experience, for others like the USA’s Shannon Rowbury, Rio offers what is likely to be a third and final chance to succeed on the world’s biggest stage.