2008

22

Aug

Tirunesh Dibaba of Ethiopia wins gold medal in women’s 5000m

Tirunesh Dibaba of Ethiopia has won the gold medal in the women’s 5000 meters at the Beijing Olympics adding to her gold she won in the 10,000.
Elvan Abeylegesse won the silver medal and Meseret Defar also from Ethiopia won the bronze.

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2008

15

Aug

Tirunesh Dibaba from Ethiopia wins gold in women’s 10,000m – OR

Tirunesh Dibaba from Ethiopia has run the women’s 10,000 meters in 29:54.68 setting a new Olympic record and winning a gold medal.
Silver went to Elvan Abeylegesse from Turkey and the bronze went to Shalane Flanagan from the United States.

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