Dibaba runs fastest ever women's 2,000 meters

(Reuters) - Ethiopia's Genzebe Dibaba ran the fastest ever women's 2,000 meters at the indoor Miting Internacional de Catalunya meeting in Sabadell, Spain on Tuesday. Her time of five minutes 23.75 seconds sliced almost seven seconds off the previous indoor world record of 5:30.53 set by Romania's Gabriela Szabo in 1998. The IAAF, athletics' world governing body, said although the 2,000m is not an official indoor world record event, Dibaba’s performance was "an outright world record"