Ethiopian Meseret Defar broke the women's world indoor 5,000 metres record on Wednesday when she clocked 14 minutes 24.37 seconds at the DN Galan meeting.

Defar, undefeated indoors in six years, broke compatriot Tirunesh Dibaba's previous mark of 14:27.42 set in Boston two years ago.

She finished the race with a last lap of 30.3 seconds to mark an auspicious return to Stockholm. Defar narrowly failed to break Dibaba's outdoor 5,000 mark in her last appearance in the Swedish capital.

It was her first indoor 5,000 race since 2004 when she won the Olympic title.

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