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Updated at 6:22 a.m., Sunday, August 17, 2008

Galkina-Samitova wins Olympic steeple debut

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Russia's gold medal winner Gulnara Galkina-Samitova is flanked by silver medal winner Kenya's Eunice Jepkorir, left, and Russia's bronze medal winner Ekaterina Volkova after the women's 3000-meter steeplechase during the athletics competitions in the National Stadium at the Beijing 2008 Olympics in Beijing on Sunday.

PETR DAVID JOSEK | Associated Press

BEIJING — Gulnara Galkina-Samitova of Russia has won the first women's 3,000-meter steeplechase gold medal in world-record time at the Olympic Games.

Galkina-Samitova won Sunday night in 8 minutes, 58.81 seconds, improving on her own mark of 9:01.59.

Eunice Jepkorir of Kenya took silver in 9:07.41 and Ekaterina Volkova of Russia, the 2007 world champion, was third in 9:07.64.

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