Meseret Defar will return to competition for the first time since giving birth to a baby as she races the 2015 Geico Rock ’n’ Roll Las Vegas Half-Marathon on Nov. 15, race organizers told SI.com.

Reigning Olympic champion Meseret Defar waited till the very end before sprinting away from fellow Ethiopian Almaz Ayana and Kenyan runner Mercy Cherono to clinch victory in the women’s 5000m race at ...

Ethiopian Meseret Defar deprived her teammate and arch-rival Tirunesh Dibaba an Olympic double for a second time when she produced a home-stretch sprint to claim victory in the 5000m on Friday. World ...

Meseret Defar donated her 2004 Olympic 5,000-meter gold medal to a church museum in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. She was 20 years old when that one was draped around her neck in Athens. Eight years later at ...

The track world was abuzz with Meseret Defar's performance Wednesday in Stockholm, where she set a world indoor record in the 5,000 meters. The news overshadowed Jesse Williams' victory in the high ...

Meseret Defar easily defended her adidas Women's Challenge 5km road race title in London but failed to smash Paula Radcliffe's course record. The Olympic 5,000m bronze medallist won in a time of 15 ...

Meseret Defar smashed her own 5,000 metres world record by nearly eight seconds and Jamaica's Asafa Powell cruised to a sub-10-second victory in the men's 100m at a Golden League meeting in Oslo ...

MOSCOW (AFP) – Russia will be gunning for a third and final race walk gold in the fifth day of action at the World Athletics Championships on Wednesday. After gold-medal showings by Aleksandr Ivanov ...