Vote for Meseret Defar of Ethiopia for IAAF Athlete of the Year Award
Monte-Carlo – The IAAF will select the 2010 World Male and Female Athletes of the Year at the World Athletic Gala here on November 21.
A total of 20 candidate athletes (10 male and 10 female), including Meseret Defar of Ethiopia, have been chosen and the International Amateur Athletics Association (IAAF) is giving the public the opportunity to vote for the top three in each categories.
Meseret Defar, who was voted IAAF Athlete of the Year in 2007, is an Olympic & World gold medalist and world indoor record holder in the 2 mile, 3,000m and 5,000m.
Some of the highlights of her performance in 2010 include a win in the 3,000m at the Sparkassen-Cup in Stuttgart, Germany; a victory in the 5,000m at the GE Galan in Stockholm, Sweden; her fourth straight World indoor title in the 3000m in Doha; a second place finish in the 5,000m at the African Championship in Nairobi, Kenya and in April, she became the first three-time women’s champion at the Carlsbad 5,000m road race in California.
Please read complete profile of Meseret Defar, prepared by Sabrina Yohannes for the IAAF.
Vote for Meseret Defar
Milcah Chemos Cheywa (Kenya) -Seven out of 11 wins at 3000m Steeplechase and second in the other four races. Winner of the Diamond Race and Commonwealth Games titles and World lead of 9:11.71 Meseret Defar (Ethiopia) – World Indoor and Continental Cup titles at 3000m. World lead 14:24.79 at 5000m, set indoors Jessica Ennis (Great Britain) – World Indoor and European champion at Combined Events with World leading marks at both Pentathlon (4937) and Heptathlon (6823). Allyson Felix (USA) – Diamond Race titles at 200m and 400m, World Indoor relay gold and wins in 14 out of her 15 individual races
Fabiana Murer (Brazil) – World Indoor and Diamond Race titles at Pole Vault. Set three South American records indoors and out. Nadezhda Ostapchuk (Belarus) – World Indoor champion, European champion and Diamond Race winner at Shot Put, winning 12 times out of 13. Olga Rypakova (Kazakhstan) – World Indoor champion at Triple Jump. Won at Continental Cup with World lead and Asian record 15.25m. Blanka Vlasic (Croatia) – Eighteen out of 20 wins at High Jump including seven out of seven wins in the Diamond League, the World Indoor and European Championships and the Continental Cup where she tied the World lead of 2.05m. Anita Wlodarczyk (Poland) – World record breaker at 78.30m and European bronze at Hammer Throw.
There are no Ethiopian candidates in the Men’s category.
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Source: Ethiosport
Let’s show we did our part
I just vote !
I just did!
Meseret is the the best athelet in the world She must be selected the Star of the stars.
God bless Meseret.
i just did it 4 Ethiopia!!
It is been a great success to bring her from 6th to the 2nd place at this moment. pls share with your friends and vote for the only Ethiopian athlete in the award.
i did my part.i vote for meseret twice in different days.
is that possible and/or valuable to vote twice(more than once )in different days?
hey guys, do you think that this voting system is fair(i mean these factors such as accesibility of computers,internet and number of population that one country has does not affect the vote system )??
Jemal you did mention a good point even thou the Athlete deserve a winner spot due to the things u mentioned like unable to vote because of the limited internet access in the country they lose that , I agree it is not fare. Regarding voting twice i did vote 6 times from the different PCs lol…
I hope I am not going to hell for this..lol..
By the way Meseret is leading the competition on the 1st place for now. If we keep pass the info and do our part hey you never know she might win this Athlete of the year crown.
“I hope I am not going to hell for this..lol”for voting 6 times from different computers. hahahahahah…u funny man,Oc. u did great job for doing that. i did vote twice from the same computer, let me vote for the third times,lol. am serious but. thanks for sharing my point Oc!
Vote for Meseret Defa
I do appreciate Meseret Defar, Her effort and ability. It is well known that She is not the only lady to be appreciated from Ethiopia, but there are some other ladies who are participating as a pilot, as a civil engineer , as a medical doctor, as a researcher and etc. all of them are not able to be known in public. Ethiopians are good and kind people.
God bless Ethiopian.
I LIKE MESERET DEFAR.
good lack mesi
good lack meseret
good belles you
As you know mesi is the one that we proud.So vote for mesi is appreciated!!!
I wonder Meseret Defar for her performance on the contnious year she is best atlate in my viwe
World have to recognize our hero, She is very tough.
Good lack Meseret
Meseret i wish you all the best!
Meseret is the best Ethiopian!
masy she is the best g.lack
መሰረት ደፋር
መሰረት ደፋር እግዛቤሄር ይቅናሽ
As to me Meseret Defar is the best of 10,000 meter runner and 30,000 meter too.
So, she has to be winner !!
i hope Mesi will be a winner. pls, let’s do our best besides we opted to win her. I shared the site to facebook and send to my friends through email to know everybody and give her their vote.
GOD BLESS HER
mesi is the winner.
GOD BLESS HER ……….
Mesert Defar is the best of 10.000 meter rnne is very fate
GOD BLESS HER
meseret is fantastic in the world
Good lack Meseret
@GORFINESH AYALEW
you will remain am icon female athelets in africa no matter what the result….good luck
“and le inatua”=i say THE ONLY.
ur are not the only 4 Ethiopia, u also unique 4 our village.
we proud of u always….
good luck ,may God help u much and much…………..
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