Posted: June 12, 2008

(RRW) Athletics:Pending World Record For Tune In Ostrava

From David Monti © 2007 Race Results Weekly, all rights reserved RaceResultsWeekly.com Watch over 50 IAAF Events Live and On-Demand at WCSN.com Ethiopian Dire Tune backed up her surprise Boston Marathon victory with a pending world record in the rarely contested one hour run today in Ostrava, Czech Republic. Less than one month past her 23rd birthday, Tune made it around the track a little more than 46 times, covering 18,517 meters before the one hour time limit. That easily surpassed the 18,340 meters Kenya's Tegla Loroupe covered in Borgholzhausen, Germany, on August 8, 1998, the previous world record. The Ostrava track is now the venue at which both the current men's and women's world one hour records reside. At last year's meet, Haile Gebrselassie clocked the current world standard of 21,285 meters. En route, he also broke the world 20,000m record which now stands at 56:26.0. NOTE: Assistant Editor Bob Ramsak is in Ostrava and will file a full report on the meet, later --Ed. Subscribe to the Runner's Web Weekly Digest