Jennifer Fisher now has a world mark.

The veteran Bermuda runner Sunday eclipsed the women's masters 2,000-metre steeplechase mark for 36-year-olds at the Pacific Northwest Masters Championship in Tacoma, Washington.

Competing in the quirky discipline for just the second time, Fisher won the gold medal with her time of seven minutes and 42 seconds. The old record, set by South Africa's Narietjie Ceronio, was 7:45.56.

It wasn't until later in the afternoon, after she and her husband/coach Eddie picked up the Masters Age Group Record Book, that they learned the record was hers.

"I wasn't even aware of the record. I just ran,'' said Jennifer, who also owns Island record in the 400m hurdles, 800m, 1,500m, 5,000m and 10,000m.

The 2,000m steeplechase consists of five laps around the track and requires athletes to leap over four 36-inch hurdles and one water obstacle. She first tried the event at the world masters championships in Buffalo, New York -- and won a gold medal.

She knocked 16 seconds off that time to join the likes of Steve Scott, Evelyn Ashford, Linford Christie and Merlene Ottey in the masters record book.

"She has a good cross-contry bakcground and a lot of speed so we just married the two together,'' Eddie Fisher said of the decision to enter the steeplechase.

Jennifer Fisher, who also won the gold in the 800m in Tacoma, goes in search of more medals at an event in Victoria, British Columbia, this weekend.