MOSCOW (AFP) – Russia will be gunning for a third and final race walk gold in the fifth day of action at the World Athletics Championships on Wednesday. After gold-medal showings by Aleksandr Ivanov ...

Meseret Defar will return to competition for the first time since giving birth to a baby as she races the 2015 Geico Rock ’n’ Roll Las Vegas Half-Marathon on Nov. 15, race organizers told SI.com.

Before the starting gun to the women’s 5,000m in Berlin, Vivian Cheruiyot faced the biggest obstacle between her and greatness — the equally diminutive Ethiopian Meseret Defar. So often in the past, ...

The track world was abuzz with Meseret Defar's performance Wednesday in Stockholm, where she set a world indoor record in the 5,000 meters. The news overshadowed Jesse Williams' victory in the high ...

London, England – Meseret Defar put in a strong kick as reigning Olympic champion Tirunesh Dibaba faded on the home stretch, overtaking her Ethiopian teammate to win the women's 5,000 meters Friday.

Meseret Defar donated her 2004 Olympic 5,000-meter gold medal to a church museum in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. She was 20 years old when that one was draped around her neck in Athens. Eight years later at ...

MOSCOW, Aug 14 (Reuters) – Ethiopia’s twice Olympic champion Meseret Defar takes to the track for the first time at these world championships in Wednesday’s 5,000 metres heats after deciding not to ...

Winner Ethiopia's Meseret Defar celebrates after the women's 5000 metres final at the 2013 IAAF World Championships at the Luzhniki stadium in Moscow on August 17, 2013. Defar produced a telling ...

CARSON – Even Meseret Defar is confounded by her continued world-record success on American soil. “It is a mystery to me,” Ethiopia’s Olympic 5,000-meter champion said. “I don’t know why but the U.S.