Edna Kiplagat increases her stride and eases into the lead at the final bend. Florence Kiplagat hasn’t enough juice in the tank to respond and the distance between the pair simply increases and increases until Edna Kiplagat bursts through the tape in 2:20.19.
Second for Florence Kiplagat in 2:20.22 while it’s a respectable debut performance for Tirunesh Dibaba, who finishes third in 2:20.33.
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