Ethiopia's Tefera breaks world indoor 1,500m record

ByReuters

Published 16/02/2019 at 16:22 GMT

Feb 16 (Reuters) - Ethiopia's Samuel Tefera broke the long-standing world indoor 1,500 metres record when he clocked three minutes, 31.04 seconds at the IAAF World Indoor Tour meeting in Birmingham, England on Saturday.

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Morocco's Hicham El Guerrouj set the previous record of 3:31.18 in 1997.

(Reporting by Gene Cherry in Raleigh, North Carolina Editing by Toby Davis)

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