Fully recovered from her earlycareer nightmares, Ethiopia’s Olympic and world 5000m champion deservedly picked up the 2007 IAAF World Athlete of the Year after an amazing season. But Defar is also increasingly developing a strong charitable personality off the track to match her success on it.
Extract from IAAF 2007 Yearbook
Ethiopia’s Olympic and World 5000m champion Meseret Defar has been through lots of trials and tribulations to make it to the top, but she admits that the morning before the IAAF World Athletics Gala in Monaco in November was perhaps one of the most difficult times of the year for her.
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