This is the third installment of Malcolm Gladwell and Nicholas Thompson’s discussion of the 2015 World Track and Field Championships. Here are part one and part two. Nicholas Thompson: Wow. What an extraordinary end to the world championships. You must be doing somersaults! The Jamaicans dominated the sprints, Mo Farah won two more gold medals,
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Almaz Ayana won the 5,000-meter final on Sunday in a world championship record 14 minutes, 26.83 seconds, leading an Ethiopian sweep of the medals. With four laps to go, Ayana made a move and started to lift the pace, leaving Genzebe Dibaba behind. With two laps to go, she led by 50 meters. Dibaba, who
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World indoor champion Genzebe Dibaba was named sportswoman of the year at the Laureus World Sports Awards in Shanghai on Wednesday (15). The middle-distance runner became the first sportsperson from Ethiopia to win an award in any category at the prestigious event, which began in 2000. Dibaba was rewarded for her 2014 season in which
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Ethiopia’s Genzebe Dibaba ran the third world indoor record * of her career when she clocked 14:18:86 for 5000m at the XL-galan meeting in Stockholm, an IAAF Indoor Permit meeting, on Thursday (19). Dibaba took more than five seconds off the previous mark of 14:24:37 set by her compatriot Meseret Defar on the same track
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IAAF – With little more than a month to go until the 2014 World Athletics Gala, the IAAF has the pleasure in announcing the names of the three men and three women who are still in contention to become the 2014 World Athletes of the Year. The finalists were selected after a two-week-long poll of
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IAAF.org Ethiopian athletes Genzebe Dibaba and Almaz Ayana won their respective races in the women’s competition at the 2014 IAAF Continental Cup in Marrakech, Morocco on Sunday. “This weekend’s most dominant performance on the track came in the penultimate individual race courtesy of Almaz Ayana in the women’s 5000m,” reported Bob Ramsak for the IAAF. “Returning to
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By Peter Gambaccini; Runners World Genzebe Dibaba will compete in the opener of the Diamond League circuit Friday in Doha, Qatar. The Diamond League, the IAAF’s circuit of 14 top tier invitational track meets including American stops in Eugene, Oregon, and…
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