Tirunesh Dibaba of Ethiopia has won gold and set a new Olympic record in the Women's 10000m at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games on August 15.
Dibaba's time of 29:54.66 was enough to break the old record of 30:17.49 set by fellow Ethiopian Derartu Tulu and hold off silver medalist Elvan Abeylegess of Turkey who ran a time of 29:56.34. Bronze went to Shalane Flanagan of the United States in a time of 30:22:22.
The world record of 29:31.78 seconds in this event is held by China's Wang Junxia China, set in 1993.
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