Dibaba Wins Women’s 5000m Eugene Diamond League 2017

Ethiopia’s Genzebe Dibaba failed in her bid to better her sister’s world record for the women’s 5,000m at the Prefontaine Classic Diamond League meeting on Friday. Dibaba, the 1,500m world champion, was trying to beat her sister Tirunesh’s world record of 14:11.15, set in 2008. Racing against the clock for the final five laps after leaving the pack behind, Dibaba could only finish in 14:25.22, well outside the world record and her own personal best of 14:15.41. Lilian Rengeruk was a distant second in 14:36.80 while Sifan Hassan was third. “I’m happy that I won but I’m not happy about the time,” Dibaba said through an interpreter. “The pace was real slow and I’m not happy with how we started.”