Dibaba to defend title at Reebok Boston Indoor Games
Posted Friday, 9 December, 2005
BOSTON (Dec. 8) – Tirunesh Dibaba, who broke the 5000-meter World Record here in January, will return as one of the headline performers at the 2006 Reebok Boston Indoor Games, organizers announced today. The event, in its 11th year, is set for Jan. 28.
Dibaba’s surprising World Record (14:32.93) in Boston was the beginning of a stratospheric year for the young Ethiopian. Already the youngest athlete ever to win a world title, at 5000m in the 2003 World Championships, Dibaba was also the 2004 Olympic bronze medalist at that same distance. But in 2005 she would take things to a new level, following up her World Record performance with double gold at the World Cross Country Championships before becoming the first athlete, male or female, in World Championships history to win gold at both the 5000m and 10,000m. The latter title came in just her second race ever at the distance.
The 5000m-10,000m double victory was honored by the IAAF, the sport’s international governing body, as the “Performance of the Year” by a female track-and-field athlete in the world for 2005. At just 20 years old, Dibaba is poised to become perhaps the greatest female track athlete in history.
Over the past decade, the Reebok Boston Indoor Games, produced by Boston-based Global Athletics & Marketing, Inc., has been the site of four World Records and eight American Records as it has become a fixture on the Boston sports calendar. For the past three years, the event has been sold out.
The 11th-annual Reebok Boston Indoor Games will be held at the Reggie Lewis Track and Athletic Center at Roxbury Community College, 1350 Tremont St., from 5:30 to 8 p.m. on Jan. 28, and will be broadcast Jan. 29 on ESPN2 from 3-4:30 p.m. Tickets and information are now available on-line at www.BostonIndoorGames.com or by calling 1-866-GO-BIG06.
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