Latest


Olympic 5,000m: Ethiopia's Defar Stuns Dibaba for Gold

  •   Sat, Aug 11 2012 10:55:55 AM

London, Aug 11 (IANS/RIA Novosti): Ethiopia's 2004 gold medallist Meseret Defar regained her Olympic 5,000 metres title Friday, powering dramatically past defending champion Tirunesh Dibaba in the final straight.

Defar accelerated to the line in 15 minutes 4.25 seconds, with Kenya's world champion Vivian Jepkemoi Cheruiyot taking the silver half a second back.

Dibaba, the world record holder, flagged in the last 50 metres to drop to the bronze medal in 15:05.15.

Defar was a bronze medalist in Beijing four years ago.
  

Top Stories


Leave a Comment

Title: Olympic 5,000m: Ethiopia's Defar Stuns Dibaba for Gold



You have 2000 characters left.

Disclaimer:

Please write your correct name and email address. Kindly do not post any personal, abusive, defamatory, infringing, obscene, indecent, discriminatory or unlawful or similar comments. Daijiworld.com will not be responsible for any defamatory message posted under this article.

Please note that sending false messages to insult, defame, intimidate, mislead or deceive people or to intentionally cause public disorder is punishable under law. It is obligatory on Daijiworld to provide the IP address and other details of senders of such comments, to the authority concerned upon request.

Hence, sending offensive comments using daijiworld will be purely at your own risk, and in no way will Daijiworld.com be held responsible.

You might also like