Ethiopian Gidey smashes women's 5,000 metres world record
Athletics
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Reuters
| Oct 08, 2020
Ethiopia’s Letesenbet Gidey demolished the women's 5,000 metres world record by more than four seconds on Wednesday at the ="https://www.standardmedia.co.ke/sports/athletics/2001383476/why-ugandas-joshua-cheptegei-is-the-real-pearl-of-africa">Valencia World Record Day<, crossing the line in 14 minutes 6.62 seconds.
Gidey, 22, easily beat the previous record of 14:11.15 set by her compatriot Tirunesh Dibaba in Oslo in 2008.
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Letesenbet Gidey in numbers.
2019 Arhus - bronze
2019 Doha - silver
2020 Valencia - WR
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