Valencia 2008 – HIGHLIGHTS Day 3 – Soboleva and countrywoman Yuliya Fomenko

The women's 1500m final here at the 12th IAAF World Indoor Championships will be written in the record books for quite a few years, as the race established a national record for Bulgaria (Daniela Yordanova, 4:04.19), Area records for Asia (Maryam Yusuf Jamal, Bahrain, 3:59.79) and Africa (Gelete Burka, Ethiopia, 3:59.75), and a new World Record** (pending ratification) from gold medal winner Yelena Soboleva of Russia, who ran 3:57.71.

* Naide Gomes of Portugal, winner of the women's long jump
* Abubaker Kaki scores a runaway victory in the men's 800m
* Gold medallist Yevgeniy Lukyanenko in action in the men's pole vault
* Tariku Bekele follows in his brother's footsteps by winning the world indoor 3000m title
* Tamsyn Lewis celebrates her surprise 800m gold medal
* Tyler Christopher finishes ahead of Johan Wissman and Chris Brown in the men's 400m
* Olesya Zykina and Natalya Nazarova dip for the line in the women's 400m

Behind Soboleva came countrywoman Yuliya Fomenko in 3:59.41, a new PB, and while Soboleva collected a $50,000 bonus for the new record, Fomenko may claim some of the glory.

"We agreed together to run at a pace which suited us both, and whoever was strongest on the last lap would win." The Russians took the pace from the beginning, burning off challenger after challenger.

Soboleva led the first three laps, Fomenko the next three, and then it was Soboleva at the bell and going away for the new record.

A good evening for Russia