Lausanne athletics meet: Moroccan wins 3,000 m women race

Morocco's Asmae Laghzaoui won on Wednesday the 3,000 m race in the Lausanne athletics meet, part of the IAAF Grand Prix.

Laghzaoui also made a new record of the meet (8 mn, 39 sec.89/100). The former record was held since 1995 by Portuguese Fernanda Ribeiro.

The second and third ranks went to Kenya's Masai Edith and Rose Cheruiyot.