3000m steeplechase Women: Hyvin Kiyeng sets a new meeting record

World champion Hyvin Kiyeng made up a 20m deficit over the last lap as she produced the sixth fastest time in history to defeat former world junior champion Ruth Jebet. The Bahraini strode clear of the field after half way to establish a seemingly unbeatable lead only for the world champion to pass her down the back straight and sweep home for a world leading meeting record of 9:07.42. The exhausted Jebet fell to her knees in the home straight but had tiime to pick herself up to claim second in an Asian record of 9:15.98. Ethiopia’s Olympic silver medallist Sofia Assefa was third ahead of last year’s Diamond Race winner, Virginia Nyambura.