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　　Soboleva breaks world record in women’s 1,500m race

　　VALENCIA, Spain(Xinhua) — Yelena Soboleva from Russia broke the world record on Sunday in the women’s 1,500-meter race at the 12th World Indoor Championships in Athletics in Valencia, Spain.

　　Soboleva, the world No. 1 runner in the event, set a new world record after clocking a time of 3:57.71 in the race to break the old mark of 3:58.05, which she set herself on Feb. 10 this year in Moscow.

　　She collected the gold and an additional bonus of 50,000 U.S. dollars except for the 40,000 dollars for a champion at the world indoors.

　　“I’m really glad about this victory here in Valencia although I didn’t expect to break the world record,” Soboleva said.

　　“The key for us to win gold and silver was to impose a very fast pace from the start,” she told reporters, adding she and her compatriot Yuliya Fomenko “agreed before the race to run at a speed that suited us both and that whoever was strongest would win on the last lap.”

　　Fomenko came second with a speed of 3:59.41, her personal best, to capture the silver.

　　Ethiopia’s Gelete Burka collected the bronze medal by clocking 3: 59.75.