Rabat DL: Beatrice Chebet runs second-fastest 3000m race in history
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Reading Time: 2min | Sun. 25.05.25. | 22:41
The 25-year-old's time only lies behind Junxia Wang's world record in 1993
Double Olympic champion Beatrice Chebet ran the second-fastest women’s 3000m race of all time after taking a commanding win at the Rabat Diamond League on Sunday, 25 May.
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The 25-year-old, testing herself out in the shorter distance, ran a blistering 8:11.56 to take the world lead and climb up to second on the all-time list.
Chebet, who hit the opening kilometre in 2:44 to be left out on her own from the gun, tucked in behind the pacemakers before going all out in the final laps in a race against time.
And whilst she burned a 61.96 penultimate lap and got way in front of the lights, Chebet was only six seconds shy of a world-record time, but took delight in a world-leading and area-record time.
FASTEST IN 32 YEARS!!!!!!
— Owen (@_OwenM_) May 25, 2025
Beatrice Chebet 🇰🇪 produces an incredible 3000m performance in Rabat, clocking 8:11.56 to move second on the all-time list. #RabatDL
🎥 @BBCSport pic.twitter.com/eOHCU4k815
The world record in the flat but not-so-often run distance remains with China’s Junxia Wang, who clocked 8:06.11 in September 1993 (31 years and eight months ago, when Chebet was not yet born).
Following Chebet in a distant second was Italy's Nadia Battocletti, finished in a national record time of 8:26.27, while Sarah Healy of Ireland took third clocking a personal best 8:27.02.
Chasing more records 🏆
— World Athletics (@WorldAthletics) May 25, 2025
10,000m world record holder, 🇰🇪’s Beatrice Chebet, powers to 8:11.56 in the women’s 3000m in Rabat 💪
✅ 2nd fastest time ever over the distance
✅Area record
✅Meeting record
✅#DiamondLeague record
📸 Guillaume Laurent for @Diamond_League pic.twitter.com/cL81vuQsaF
Elsewhere in the men's 3000m steeple-chase, Kenya's Edmund Serem finished third in a personal-best time of 8:07.47, coming in behind home favorite Soufiane El Bakkali and Germany's Frederik Ruppert.
El Bakkali made an emphatic statement in front of an excited crowd, clocking a world-leading time of 8:00.70.
In the men's 1500m, World U20 champion Reynold Cheruiyot timed a season-best 3:31.78 to finish second behind American Jonah Koech, who stunned the field with a 3:31.43 meeting record.
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