READ MORE:<\/strong> Raiders prevail in 'craziest game of football'\ufeff<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n READ MORE:<\/strong> Queensland dealt $30k fine for Origin I blunder\ufeff<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n The Kenyan smashed the mark of 3:50.07 set by Ethiopia's Genzebe Dibaba in 2015.<\/p>\n Scotland's Laura Muir finished second in the Florence race in 3:57.\ufeff09 as Hull rounded out the podium, eclipsing the Australian record she had set at the 2021 Tokyo Olympics.<\/p>\n Abbey Caldwell charged home in sixth in 4:01.34 as fellow Victorian Linden Hall finished 10th in 4:02.43.<\/p>\n Kipyegon whipped the crowd into a frenzy in her dash to the finish line, clocking 58.81 for the final lap as she streaked away from the lights on the rail marking the world record.<\/p>\n "I was going to say … that is Bannister-esque," said commentator Tim Hutchings, referring to Sir Roger Bannister becoming the first-ever sub-four-minute miler in Oxford on May 6, 1954.<\/p>\n "Breaking 3:50 for the women's 1500 metres … Remember, four minutes for the women's 1500 metres was broken many, many years ago, decades ago. The 3:50 barrier has been tantalisingly close for many, many years … And now sub-3:50 \u2014 you have to rub your eyes to look at it and take it all in. And she hasn't just broken it \u2014 she's hammered it into oblivion … 3:49.11 \u2014 that's going to keep people awake."<\/p>\n https:\/\/twitter.com\/WorldAthletics\/status\/1664730259604877316<\/a><\/p>\n The Florence meet also saw Western Australian pole vaulter Nina Kennedy record a season's best of 4.61 metres\ufeff to claim third in the women's event.<\/p>\n Stewart McSweyn from Tasmania's King Island finished 16th in the men's 5000 metres, posting 13:23.81.<\/p>\n And Sydney speedster Rohan Browning finished sixth in the men's 100 metres, registering 10.15 (0.0 wind).\ufeff<\/p>\n The next meet on the Diamond League calendar will be hosted by Paris next Saturday morning (AEST).<\/p>\n \ufeffFor a daily dose of the best of the breaking news and exclusive content from Wide World of Sports, subscribe to our newsletter by<\/strong><\/em> clicking here<\/strong><\/em><\/a>!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A\ufeffustralian running champion Jessica Hull wiped more than a second from her own national 1500-metre record in a sparkling performance at Italy's Florence Diamond League […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":303493,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303491"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=303491"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":303494,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303491\/revisions\/303494"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/303493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=303491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=303491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=303491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/p>\n