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Kenyan teenager Celliphine Chespol, after temporarily losing a shoe on the penultimate lap, recovered to run the second fastest women's 3,000 metres steeplechase ever at the Prefontaine Classic Diamond League meeting on Friday.
The 18-year-old needed to stop and reattach the shoe with about 550 metres to go, then roared to victory in eight minutes, 58.78 seconds.
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