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. It came on the same Birmingham track where Tefera had won the world title last year. 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 16, 2019 16:37 UTC