Above: Double Olympic champion Tirunesh Dibaba, pictured
here at the 3rd Annual Reebok Grand Prix two years ago, will
compete at this year’s event in New York. The Reebok Grand
Prix is the fourth stop of USA Track & Field’s Visa Championship
Series and will begin at 3:00pm on May 30th at Icahn Stadium
on Randall’s Island. (Photo: Tadias Magazine).
Tadias photos from the 2007 Reebok Grand Prix in New York
Dibaba, Powell, Campbell-Brown set for New York
(Athletics Weekly)
May 27th 2009
Dibaba, Powell, Campbell-Brown set for New York
DOUBLE Olympic champion Tirunesh Dibaba from Ethiopia will make her season’s debut over 5000m at the Reebok Grand Prix, May 30, after injury forced her to miss the World Cross Country Championships. The two-time world 10000m champion and world 5000m record-holder’s shape is not known but the US all-comers’ record of 14:24.53, held by archrival Meseret Defar, could be under threat. Read more
