Genzebe Dibaba from Ethiopia runs new indoor 1500m world record

At the IAAF Indoor 1500m race in Karlsruhe, Germany over the weekend, Genzebe Dibaba from Ethiopia set a new world record by running 3m 55.17s. This was a huge three seconds faster than the old record of 3m 58.28s set by Yelena Soboleva of Russia back in 2006.

Here are the top 10 indoor times...
1  3:55.17  Genzebe Dibaba     ETH  Karlsruhe       01.02.2014
2  3:58.28  Yelena Soboleva    RUS  Moskva          18.02.2006
3  3:58.40  Abebe Arigawi      SWE  Stockholm       21.02.2013
4  3:59.75  Gelete Burka       ETH  Valencia        09.03.2008
5  3:59.79  Maryam Yusuf Jamal BRN  Valencia        09.03.2008
6  3:59.98  Regina Jacobs      USA  Boston          01.02.2003
7  4:00.13  Genzebe Dibaba     ETH  Karlsruhe       12.02.2012
8  4:00.2+  Mary Slaney        USA  Houston         16.02.1980
9  4:00.27+ Doina Melinte      ROU  East Rutherford 09.02.1990
10 4:00.72  Natalya Gorelova   RUS  Moskva          27.02.2003

The splits below show even splits for the new world record in italics compared to what Dibaba actually ran. As you can see, she was about 4 seconds behind at 800m/1000m before putting in a very fast second half.
200m    31    31 / 400m    1:02     1:03 / 600m    1:35     1:34 / 800m    2:09    2:05 / 1000m    2:41    2:37 / 1200m    3:10    3:08 / 1400m    3:40     3:39 / Finish    3:55     3:55

Video in German...