Ethiopian teenager Samuel Tefera has outduelled compatriot Yomif Kejelcha to break the world indoor 1500m record in Birmingham. Tefera, 19, clocked three minutes, 31.04 seconds at the IAAF World Indoor Tour meeting on Saturday to take down Moroccan Hicham El Guerrouj's 1997 record of 3:31.18. Kejelcha, the 21-year-old two-time world indoor 3000m champion, had come within 0.01 of the world indoor mile record last week in New York. He had announced before Saturday's race he would be going for the 1500m record. The world record is 4:13.31 by Ethiopia's Genzebe Dibaba in 2016.

Source: Ethiopian News February 16, 2019 17:26 UTC