Video del record de Meseret Defar en las dos millas

Meseret Defar became the first woman ever to run two miles in under nine minutes with a superb performance on Sept 14,07 Golden League meeting in Brussels.

Defar set the previous record of nine minutes 10.47 seconds in May this year in Carson, California, and decimated that figure with another amazing display.

The 23-year-old Ethiopian - who posted a world 5000m record in June and then went on to win the world title - clocked eight minutes 58.58 seconds in the Belgian capital.

After some excellent pacemaking, the Olympic 5000m champion took up the running just before the halfway mark.

She broke clear of her nearest rival, Kenya's Priscah Ngetich, with a tremendous surge 400 metres later and, showing no sign of tiredness, got quicker and quicker to move into the history books.
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Two Miles World Best

8:58.58 for the women's Two Miles! A race seldom run, and not an official World record distance but a runner who takes over 11 seconds off the existing fastest time for any event very much deserves the standing ovation of the ferocity and noise which greeted Meseret Defar's performance tonight. Alone for about 1300 metres of the race, the World and Olympic 5000m champion's assault on her own World best for the distance (9:10.47 -- Carson, USA 10 May 2007) was determined and totally committed. Appropriately in that regard her name in Amharic means 'bold'.

If anyone in future tries to question the quality of Defar's effort because this is an imperial distance then they should note she improved the world season lead for 3000m on the way (8:29.52 - Mariem Alaoui Selsouli, 25 July 2007) and her 8:24.81 split was also a national Ethiopian record. Defar now travels to London on Sunday to have a crack at her 5km World best on the road (14:46).

Of note, Kenya's Priscah Ngetich Jepleting brought home a national record in second (9:14.09) with another Kenyan in third spot, Silvia Kibet (9:16.62).