Pending World Record for Tune in Ostrava
Posted June 12th, 2008 at 1:15 PM by David Monti
Section: News & Results, Track & Field
Ethiopian Dire Tune backed up her surprise Boston Marathon victory with a pending world record in the rarely contested one hour run today in Ostrava, Czech Republic.
Less than one month past her 23rd birthday, Tune made it around the track a little more than 46 times, covering 18,517 meters before the one hour time limit. That easily surpassed the 18,340 meters Kenya’s
Tegla Loroupe covered in Borgholzhausen, Germany, on August 8, 1998, the previous world record.
The Ostrava track is now the venue at which both the current men’s and women’s world one hour records reside. At last year’s meet, Haile Gebrselassie clocked the current world standard of 21,285 meters. Enroute, he also broke the world 20,000m record which now stands at 56:26.0.
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Tags: Czech Republic, Dire Tune, IAAF Grand Prix, one hour record, Ostrava, record setting performance, world record
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