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Samitova breaks World record

TULA (Russia) Aug. 11. Gulnara Samitova shattered the women's 3,000 metres steeplechase World record at the Russian championships on Sunday.

Samitova clocked 9min 08.35 secs to shave more than eight seconds from the old mark of 9:16.51 set by Alesya Turova of Belarus on July 27, 2002 in Gdansk, Poland.

It was the second world record to fall at the National championships in the last three days after Yulia Pechyonkina bettered the women's 400m hurdles mark on Friday. Pechyonkina clocked 52.34 seconds in the final to break American Kim Batten's mark of 52.61 set at the 1995 World championships in Gothenburg.

Reuters

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