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Meseret Defar
Ethiopian long-distance runner (born 1983)
Meseret Defar Tola (Amharic: መሠረት ደፋር; born 19 November 1983) is an Ethiopian long-distancerunner who competes chiefly in the 3,000 metres and 5,000 metres events. She has won medals at top-tier international competitions including Olympic and World Championshipgold medals over 5,000 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.
In 2007 on a track in Brussels Belgium, she became the only woman with a 2-mile run in less than 9 minutes (8:58.58). This was an improvement on the world record by 11 seconds.[4]
Defar has been successful in the 5,000 m at the Olympic Games, taking gold at the 2012 London Olympics and 2004 Athens Olympics and bronze at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. She has experienced similar success in the World Championships, taking silver in the 2005 Helsinki Championships and gold at the 2007 Osaka Championships.
Defar held the indoor records for the 5000 metres, 3,000 metres and two-m
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Meseret Defar was an Ethiopian distance runner who won gold medals in the 5,000 metres in 2004 and 2012, taking silver in the event at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Defar also won the World Championships in the 5K in 2007 and 2014 and was a four-time World Champion in the indoor 3,000 metres – 2004, 2006, 2008, and 2010. In 2009 and 2011 she added bronze medals in the 5K at the World Championships.
Defar set two world records in the 5,000, her best event, first running 14:24.53 in June 2006 at the Reebok Grand Prix in New York, and then recording 14:16.63 at the Bislett Games in Oslo in June 2007. In an event not recognized by World Athletics for record purposes, Defar also became the first woman to run 2-miles under 9 minutes, when she ran 8:58.58 on 14 September 2007 at the Van Damme Memorial in Bruxelles. She also set an indoor world best of 8:23.72 for 3,000 metres in Stuttgart on 3 February 2007.
Personal Best: 5000 – 14:12.88 (2008).