Meseret Defar
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| Olympic medal record | |||
| Women's athletics | |||
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| Gold | 2004 Athens | 5,000 m | |
Meseret Defar (born November 19, 1983 in Addis Ababa) is a female athlete from Ethiopia.
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 Athletics 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 world record time of 14:24.53.
On 3 February 2007 she ran the 3000 metres Indoor in Stuttgart (Germany) in a world record time of 8:23.72.
[edit] External reference
- IAAF profile for Meseret Defar
| Olympic champions in women's 5000 m |
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| 1996: Wang Junxia | 2000: Gabriela Szabo | 2004: Meseret Defar |
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