Defar breaks women's 5,000 meters world record
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Meseret Defar broke the women's 5,000 meters world record with a time of 14 minutes 16.63 seconds at a Golden League meeting on Friday.
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Lagat, the World Indoor 3000m champion clocked 3:52.87 to break the all-time mile record of over the 160-yard banked oval to the roar of a crowd of 13,519. Lagat's mark eclipsed Irishman's Eamonn Coghlan's meet ...
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Australia has set a new world record of 3 minutes, 56.342 seconds in winning its quarter-final of the men's team pursuit at the Athens Olympics.
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Zimbabwe's Olympic champion Kirsty Coventry set a world record in the 200 meters backstroke with a time of two minutes 6.39 seconds at the Missouri Grand Prix on Saturday.
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KUANTAN: Having already set a world record on Tuesday, âScorpion Queenâ Nur Malena Hassan put more âstingâ into her feat by staying on for four more days.
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ATHENS : New Zealand&#39;s Sarah Ulmer smashed her second world record in as many days on the way to claiming the 3000-metre individual pursuit cycling gold medal at the Athens Olympics.
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Russia&#39;s Yelena Isinbayeva broke her own world record in the pole vault last night to win a showdown with teammate Svetlana Feofanova for the gold with an effort of 16 feet 1Â¼ inches.
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Wednesday night in the Olympic Stadium, a 25-year-old Greek woman named Fani Halkia won the gold medal in the 400-meter hurdles as more than 60,000 fans, many of them flag-waving countrymen, went wild.
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Australia set a world record in winning the 400-meter medley relay at the Short Course World Championships on Saturday night. Sophie Edington, Brooke Hanson, Jessica Schipper and Lisbeth Lenton won in 3 minutes
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HICHAM El Guerrouj wrote his name large in the annals of Olympic history last night when he bestrode athleticsâ middle and long-distance disciplines by completing a 1500m and 5,000m double gold.
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A U.S. women's sprinting corps missing some of its biggest names got off to a strong start Friday on the first day of Olympic track competition, with three Americans &#151; including 37-year-old Gail Devers &#151; advancing from their preliminary heats in the 100 meters. Lauryn Williams, the 20-year-old NCAA champion from Miami, was fastest in her heat in 11.16 seconds.
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Hicham El Guerrouj became the first man in 80 years to win the 1,500 and 5,000 meters at one Olympics, holding up two fingers in triumph Saturday after outsprinting the world record holder down the final straightaway of the 5,000.
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Sarah Ulmer of New Zealand continued her dominance of pursuit racing Sunday, breaking her own world record to win the Olympic gold medal.
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Sarah Ulmer of New Zealand won women&#39;s 3,000m individual pursuit with a new world record of 3 minutes 24.537 seconds on Sunday, beating Australian strong rival Katie Mactier, who clocked 3:27.
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Martina Navratilova, the woman who has  won everything in tennis, notched another record at the Athens  Olympics at 47.
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Michael Phelps wins the gold Friday in the 100-meter butterfly with an Olympic-record time, his fifth gold medal of the Athens Games.
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ETHIOPIA&#39;S Meseret Defar and Tirunesh Dibaba decisively won their Olympic grudge race against former teammate Elvan Abeylegesse by taking gold and bronze respectively in the women&#39;s 5000m this morning.