Ethiopian Abeba Aregawi, who live in the Stockholm suburb of Solna was the big surprise of a fantastic middle-distance night at Rome Olympic Stadion. The 21-year-old runner, who finished second in Shanghai in 3:59.23, smashed her PB to a sensational meeting record and new world seasonal best of 3:56.54. Kenyan Helen Obiri, World indoor champion in the 3000 metres, also set a new PB with 3:59.58. <\/p>\n
World Indoor champion Genzebe Dibaba, winner in Shanghai with with the previous seasonal best of 3:57.77, had to settle with third place with 4:00.85. US Morgan Uceny, winner of the Diamond Race in 2011, was the first non-African runner in fourth place in 4:01.59, a new seasonal best.\u2028<\/p>\n
Aregawi was delighted with her victory<\/strong> The women\u2019s 1500 m is a Diamond League event at DN Galan on 17 August and Abeba Aregawi will hopefully compete at Stockholm Olympic Stadium.Results<\/link>\n Jonas Hedman<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Usain Bolt was the main attraction in Rome Diamond League when he won the 100 m in a world...","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"city":[],"class_list":["post-1588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stockholm"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stockholm.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stockholm.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stockholm.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stockholm.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stockholm.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1588\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stockholm.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stockholm.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stockholm.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1588"},{"taxonomy":"city","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stockholm.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/city?post=1588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\u2013 It was a surprise for me to win but even bigger surprise is the time. I knew I was back on the scene already in Shanghai but the weather conditions were better here and I felt great. I had a bad year in 2011 as I suffered from a right knee injury. Now I am ready to run fast times and I hope to keep the shape till the Olympic Games\u201d, said Aregawi who is married with Swede Henok Weldegebriel. <\/p>\n