Gidey breaks Hassan’s two-day old record

Letesenbet Gidey lowered the women’s 10,000m world record just two days after Sifan Hassan set the mark on the same track.Gidey clocked 29 minutes, 1.03 seconds at the Ethiopian Olympic trials, which

Letesenbet Gidey lowered the women’s 10,000m world record just two days after Sifan Hassan set the mark on the same track. Gidey clocked 29 minutes, 1.03 seconds at the Ethiopian Olympic trials, which is being held in the Netherlands. Tsigie Gebreselama was second in 30:06.01. Gidey took 5.79 seconds off Hassan’s record set at the Fanny Blankers-Koen Games. Hassan, an Ethiopia-born Dutch runner, had bettered the previous record (Ethiopian Almaz Ayanas’ winning time at the 2016 Rio Olympics) by 10.63 seconds.