Ethiopia’s Meseret Defar made it a magnificent seven victories in the World Athletics Final to complete the 3000m/5000m double, earn herself an extra $60,000 and enhance her standing as the most successful athlete in the six-year history of the lucrative end-of-season competition.
Ethiopia’s Gelete Burka finished second in the Women’s 1500m at the IAAF’s World Atheltics Final in Stuttgart, Germany and a cool $20,000 prize money. Ethiopian born Maryam Jamal of Bahrain finished first.
Maryam Jamal is surely one of the athletes most disappointed to see the track at the Mercedes Benz Arena ripped up after the World Athletics Final.
Why? Well the smooth-running Bahrain athlete comfortably secured a hat-trick of titles all three coming here in this famous athletics stadium as she earned some recompense for her Beijing disappointment in which she finished a disconsolate fifth in the Olympic final.
Tracking the long-time leader, Gelete Burka of Ethiopia, Jamal pounced like cat to take the lead around the crown of the final bend to kick ahead and storm down the home straight to stop the clock in 4:06.59. It was not a bad final lap either, covered in a rapid 60 seconds.
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