Alistair Cragg wins Boston 3,000m after Bekele mistake

Kenenisa Bekele's record hopes were dashed when he miscounted his laps in the men's 3,000m and staged his sprint finish a lap too soon at the Boston Indoor Games.

Ireland's Alistair Cragg won in 7:39.89 as Bekele battled to second in 7:41.42.

"I didn't want to sit back and get out-kicked," said Cragg. "I kept on the pace. The plan was to go with 500m to go no matter what, but when Bekele made the mistake that was it. The race was mine."

Ethiopia's Tirunesh Dibaba set a new world record in winning the women's 5,000m.

Dibaba won in 14 minutes 32.93 seconds to erase the previous world indoor mark of 14:39.29 set by another Ethiopian, Berhane Adera, in Stuttgart last year.

Sweden's Carolina Kluft, the Olympic heptathlon champion, and Slovenia's Jolanda Ceplak had winning performances, too.

Kluft took the long jump at 6.63m, while Ceplak easily won the women's 800m in 2:01.52.