Teenager Ruth Jebet won Bahrain’s first ever Olympic gold medal, blowing away the competition in the women’s 3,000 metres steeplechase but narrowly missing out on the world record. The 19-year-old stormed into the lead after a few laps and set a blistering pace to win in eight minutes 59.75 seconds, shy of the 8 minutes 58.81 second world record set by Russia’s Gulnara Galkina at the 2008 Beijing games. Galkina and Kenyan-born Jebet are the only two women to have run a sub-nine minute time. Kenya’s Hyvin Kiyeng Jepkemoi was almost 50 metres behind in second place.