Meseret Defar

Meseret Defar
Medal record

Meseret Defar
Competitor for  Ethiopia
Women's Athletics
Olympic Games
Gold 2004 Athens 5000 m
Bronze 2008 Beijing 5000 m
World Championships
Gold 2007 Osaka 5000 m
Silver 2005 Helsinki 5000 m
Bronze 2009 Berlin 5000 m
Bronze 2011 Daegu 5000 m
World Indoor Championships
Gold 2004 Budapest 3000 m
Gold 2006 Moskva 3000 m
Gold 2008 Valencia 3000 m
Gold 2010 Doha 3000 m
Bronze 2003 Birmingham 3000 m
African Championships
Gold 2006 Bambous 5000 m
Silver 2000 Algiers 5000 m
Silver 2008 Addis Ababa 5000 m
Silver 2010 Nairobi 5000 m
All-Africa Games
Gold 2003 Abuja 5000 m
Gold 2007 Algiers 5000 m
Continental Cup
Gold 2010 Split 3000 m
World Junior Championships
Gold 2002 Kingston 3000 m
Gold 2002 Kingston 5000 m
Silver 2000 Santiago 5000 m
World Youth Championships
Silver 1999 Bydgoszcz 3000 m

Meseret Defar (Amharic: መሰረት ደፋር; born 19 November, 1983 in Addis Ababa) is a female long-distance runner from Ethiopia who competes chiefly in the 3000 metres and 5000 metres events. She has won medals at top-tier international competitions including Olympic and World Championship gold medals over 5000 metres. She broke the world record in the event in 2006, broke it again in 2007 and held it until 2008, when fellow Ethiopian Tirunesh Dibaba beat her time.

Defar has been successful in the 5000 m at the Olympic Games, taking gold at the 2004 Athens Olympics and bronze at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. She has experienced similar success in the World Championships, taking silver in 2005 Helsinki Championships and gold at the 2007 Osaka Championships.

Defar holds the indoor records for the 5000 metres, 3000 metres and two-mile run. She has dominated the 3000 m indoor event, winning the three consecutive gold medals at the IAAF World Indoor Championships.

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Career

Olympic gold and world records

Defar won the 5000 metres gold medal at the inaugural Afro-Asian Games in 2003. She won gold in the women's 5000 metres at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens with a time of 14:45.65.

She won a silver medal at the 2005 World Championships in Helsinki, losing only to Tirunesh Dibaba.

In 2006 she won the World Indoor Championships over 3000 metres, defending her title from the 2004 IAAF World Indoor Championships.

On 3 June 2006 she ran the 5000 metres in New York City in a then-world record time of 14:24.53 – she subsequently improved the record to 14:16.63 at the Bislett Games in Oslo on 15 June 2007.

On 3 February 2007 she ran the 3000 metres indoor in Stuttgart (Germany) in a world record time of 8:23.72.

On 20 May 2007 she ran the 2 mile in Carson, California in a world best time of 9:10.47.[1]

On 1 September 2007 she won gold in 14:57.91 at 5000 m at the 2007 World Championships in Osaka, to go along with her Olympic victory and world record.[2][3]

On 14 September 2007, she set a world best (8:58.58) in the women's 2-mile (3.2 km) at the Van Damme Memorial meet, shaving 11.89 seconds off the 9:10.47 mark she set in may at Carson, California.[4] Also in 2007, Defar won the female IAAF World Athlete of the Year award.[5]

Beijing Olympics and Berlin World Championships

In the Reebok Boston Indoor meeting of January 2008, Defar ran a time of 9:10.50 in the two-mile (3.2 km) event to establish a new two-mile indoor world best time, breaking the previous indoor best by over twelve seconds.[6]

Defar won her third consecutive World Indoor gold medal in the 3000 m at the 2008 World Indoor Championships in Athletics. At the 2008 African Championships in Athletics, Defar was defeated in the 5000 m by compatriot Meselech Melkamu. At the 2008 Bislett Games, Defar's 5000 m world record was broken by Tirunesh Dibaba. In the 5000 m final at the 2008 Olympic Games, she took the bronze medal, beaten by Dibaba and Elvan Abeylegesse. However, she took a 3000/5000 m double at the 2008 World Athletics Final.

Defar began the 2009 athletics season by improving upon her personal bests, setting a new 5000 m world indoor record of 14:24.37 and an indoor world best over two miles (3.2 km) with a 9:06.26 run.[7] She competed in the 10,000 metres event at the British national trials in July, attempting to take a spot on the Ethiopian team at the 2009 World Championships in Athletics. In spite of the wet and windy conditions, she ran a personal best of 29:59.20 minutes – breaking Paula Radcliffe's UK all-comers’ record, becoming the fifth woman to run sub-30 minutes, and earning qualification for the Championships in the process.[8]

In Berlin, Meseret was leading the 2009 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 10,000 metres until the last 50 metres when her legs appeared to dramatically tie up, handing the gold medal to Kenya's Linet Masai and was passed by three other athletes, finishing with a time of 30:52.37. She then ran in the 2009 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 5000 metres final and was leading at the top of the home straight, but was passed by two Kenyan with metres to go, Vivian Cheruiyot and Sylvia Kibet. She went on to beat both athletes in the 3000 m at the 2009 IAAF World Athletics Final a month later, setting a world leading time of 8:30.15 in the process.

Rebounding from her bronze medal championship performance, she scored a fourth straight gold medal in the 3000 m at the 2010 IAAF World Indoor Championships. Moving on to the road circuit, she won her third title at the Carlsbad 5000, although her time of 15:04 did not trouble her own course record.[9] At the 2010 African Championships in Athletics, she represented Ethiopia in the 5000 m and won the silver medal behind Vivian Cheruiyot. She made her half marathon debut at the Rock 'n' Roll Philadelphia Half Marathon and succeeded first time, winning in a time of 1:07:44. This mark improved upon Berhane Adere's fastest time on American soil for the distance and was the fifth fastest ever debut.[10]

Personal bests

Defar at the World Indoor Championships in 2008
Type Event Time Date Place Notes
Outdoor 1500 metres 4:06.12 12 May 2006 Doha, Qatar
2000 metres 5:45.62 8 June 2008 Eugene, Oregon, United States
3000 metres 8:24.51+ 14 September 2007 Brussels, Belgium
Two miles 8:58.58 14 September 2007 Brussels, Belgium World Record
5000 metres 14:12.88 22 July 2008 Stockholm, Sweden
10,000 metres 29:59.20 11 July 2009 Birmingham, England
10 km (road) 32:08 25 February 2007 San Juan, Puerto Rico
Half marathon (road) 67:44 19 September 2010 Philadelphia, United States
Indoor 3000 metres 8:23.72 2 February 2007 Brussels, Belgium World record
Two miles 9:06.26 26 February 2009 Prague, Czech Republic World best
5000 metres 14:24.37 18 February 2009 Stockholm, Sweden World record
  • All information taken from IAAF profile.

References

  1. ^ Meseret Defar 2mile WR 9:10.47 at Carson – YouTube video
  2. ^ 2007 World Championships Women 5000m result – IAAF
  3. ^ 2007 WC 5000m women's – YouTube video
  4. ^ Meseret Defar 2mile WR 8:58.58 at IAAF Golden League-Brussels – YouTube video
  5. ^ Gay and Defar are World Athletes of the Year – Powell and Vlasic win Performance of the Year Award. IAAF.org. 2007-11-25
  6. ^ Defar runs 9:10.50 Two Miles World best in Boston. IAAF.org. 2008-01-27
  7. ^ Ramsak, Bob (2009-02-26). Defar runs 9:06.26 Two Miles World best in Prague. IAAF. Retrieved on 2009-03-03.
  8. ^ Brown, Matthew (2009-07-12). Defar clocks 29:59.20 in Birmingham to secure Berlin ticket. IAAF. Retrieved on 2009-07-23.
  9. ^ Cruz, Dan (2010-04-12). Defar and Kipchoge prevail in Carlsbad. IAAF. Retrieved on 2010-04-12.
  10. ^ Larkin, Duncan (2010-09-20). Defar clocks 1:07:44 in Half Marathon debut in Philadelphia. IAAF. Retrieved on 2010-09-20.

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Records
Preceded by
Turkey Elvan Abeylegesse
Women's 5,000 m World Record Holder
June 3, 2006 – June 6, 2008
Succeeded by
Ethiopia Tirunesh Dibaba
Awards
Preceded by
United States Sanya Richards
Women's Track & Field Athlete of the Year
2007
Succeeded by
Ethiopia Tirunesh Dibaba
Sporting positions
Preceded by
Bahrain Maryam Yusuf Jamal
Kenya Vivian Cheruiyot
Women's 3,000 m Best Year Performance
2006–2007
2009
Succeeded by
Kenya Vivian Cheruiyot
Ethiopia Sentayehu Ejigu
Preceded by
Turkey Elvan Abeylegesse
Women's 5,000 m Best Year Performance
2005–2007
Succeeded by
Ethiopia Tirunesh Dibaba



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