genzebe dibaba had the world record for fastest mile in women's running on february 17, 2016.
who had the world record for fastest mile in women's running on february 17, 2016?
genzebe dibaba
during 1994, sonia o'sullivan dominated international distance running. she set the fastest time of the year in four events, the 1500 m, 1 mile, 2000 m and 3000 m, and the second fastest time in the 5000 m. on 8 july, at edinburgh, she broke the 2000 m world record, setting a new time of 5:25.36. this record stood until genzebe dibaba of ethiopia broke it on 7 february 2017. the next week, in london, she broke the european record for the 3000 m, beating britain's yvonne murray, and setting the year's fastest time of 8:21.64. this moved her to fifth on the all-time world list, behind the four chinese runners who had set their personal bests at the 1993 national championships in beijing. this record lasted until 2002, when gabriela szabo bettered it. only three days later, at nice, o'sullivan recorded the year's fastest 1500 m, a personal best, of 3:59.10, and only four days after that, she won the mile at the bislett games in oslo, in a time of 4:17.25. this was the season's best, and it moved o'sullivan to fourth on the all-time world list. all four of these times were also new irish records, and after this two-week period of record breaking, o'sullivan became a clear favourite to win any event she chose to compete in at the european athletics championships in helsinki in august. at helsinki, o'sullivan elected to only contest the 3000 m, with her main opposition expected to come from yvonne murray. in the final, on 10 august, murray set the pace with o'sullivan on her shoulder. with 200 m to go, o'sullivan surged past murray to win easily in 8:31.84. o'sullivan followed this with a win over 5000 m in the grand prix final in paris on 3 september. she finished the grand prix season in 3rd place in the woman's overall standings. at the end of a long season, on 9 september, the tired o'sullivan finished only fifth in the 1500 m at the world cup in london.
sonia o'sullivan
a number of world records in egg-and-spoon racing are held by new yorker and serial record-holder ashrita furman; these include, as published by guinness world records, fastest 100 m egg-and-spoon race (19.39 seconds); fastest 100 m egg-and-spoon race while holding the spoon in the mouth (25.13 seconds); fastest mile egg-and-spoon race (7 minutes, 8 seconds); fastest mile egg-and-spoon race holding the spoon with both hands (8 minutes, 5 seconds); and fastest mile egg-and-spoon race holding the spoon in the mouth (9 minutes, 29 seconds). in 1990 a runner completed the london marathon in three hours forty-seven minutes while carrying a dessert spoon with an uncooked egg balanced upon it.
egg-and-spoon race