Ethiopian teenager Samuel Tefera outduelled compatriot Yomif Kejelcha to break the world indoor 1,500 metres record in Birmingham on Saturday. Tefera, 19, clocked three minutes, 31.04 seconds at the IAAF World Indoor Tour meeting to take down Moroccan Hicham El Guerrouj’s 1997 record of 3:31.18. Kejelcha, the 21-year-old two-time world indoor 3,000m champion, had come within 0.01 of the world indoor mile record last week in New York. Scotland’s Laura Muir became the third-fastest indoor miler of all-time at the same meeting when she broke the British record. The world record is 4:13.31 by Ethiopia’s Genzebe Dibaba in 2016.

Source: Ethiopian News February 18, 2019 08:15 UTC