Gebrselassie Breaks Record

Mon., Feb. 16, 1998

Compiled From Wire Services

Haile Gebrselassie of Ethiopia set a new world-best for the indoor 2,000 meters, clocking 4 minutes, 52.86 seconds to top the 11-year-old mark of 4:54.07 by Ireland’s Eamonn Coghlan.

The new world mark in the BUPA Indoor Grand Prix was the 24-year-old Gebrselassie’s 12th in his career. He also holds the world indoor 5,000-meter record of 12:59.04 set last year.

American Maurice Greene, who set a world indoor record of 6.39 for 60 meters earlier this month in Madrid, failed to run faster, clocking 6.47 just hours after getting off a Concorde flight from New York.

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