News (Free subscription) | 11/21/2008
Young athletes during a training session at Kipkeino Stadium in Kapsabet town. They normally train with Pamela Jelimo, the 800 metres Beijing Olympics 800m champion and Sh70 million Golden Jackpot winner (right, top) and under the instructions of her coach Said Aziz (above right). Photos/JARED NYATAYA
Mail & Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/07/2008
In the two weeks since returning home from a season where she not only won the 800m Olympic title but also scooped the lucrative Golden League athletics jackpot, Pamela Jelimo has met the president and been flown by helicopter to a huge homecoming parade. In a first for a Kenyan runner, she has received a diplomatic passport and even had a street named after her.In Kapsabet, the nearest...
SI.com (Free subscription) | 11/24/2008
... the other contenders in the men's category, while Tirunesh Dibaba of Ethiopia and Kenyan teenager Pamela Jelimo were nominated on the women's side.All the contenders won Olympic gold and achieved extraordinary feats: Robles broke the world record in the 110 hurdles, Jelimo collected the $1 million Golden League jackpot, and Bekele and Dibaba remained undefeated throughout 2008.Robles...
France24 (Free subscription) | 11/23/2008
... with a 12.87 seconds run in June, won the men's performance of the year award. Kenyan teenager Pamela Jelimo, who rose from obscurity to finish the season unbeaten in the 800 metres, won the revelation of the Year award. Jelimo, who captured Olympic gold and the $1 million IAAF Jackpot, only took up the event last April. Bolt and Isinbayeva each received $100,000.
Scotsman.com (Free subscription) | 11/25/2008
... the other contenders in the men's category, while Tirunesh Dibaba of Ethiopia and Kenyan teenager Pamela Jelimo were nominated on the women's side. Robles won the men's Performance of the Year award for running 12.87 to set a world record in June in Ostrava, Czech Republic.Dibaba and Czech javelin thrower Barbora Spotakova shared the women's award. Dibaba ran 14:11.15 to smash the...
Sports Jamaica (Free subscription) | 11/22/2008
... standard by 27 seconds in the marathon. Ethiopia Tirunesh Dibaba, Russian Yelena Isinbayeva and Pamela Jelimo of Kenya are vying for the Female Athlete of the Year award. Medals upgraded Meanwhile, the medals for three Jamaica men's 1600m relay were officially upgraded yesterday. The upgraded medals came after the IAAF decided to disregard all medals won by American Antonio Pettigrew,...
USA Today (Free subscription) | 11/11/2008
The other women's contenders are Kenyan teenager Pamela Jelimo, who won the women's 800 meters in Beijing and collected the $1 million jackpot by winning her event at all six Golden League meetings, and Russian pole vaulter Yelena Isinbayeva, who set the 24th world record of her career to win the Olympic gold with a vault of 5.05 meters.
atHome Top Story (Free subscription) | 11/10/2008
... champion and world record holder Dayron Robles are the other men's contenders.Kenyan teenager Pamela Jelimo and Ethiopia's Tirunesh Dibaba are challenging Isinbayeva.The 18-year-old Jelimo collected the entire million-dollar jackpot by winning the 800 metres at all six Golden League meetings on the sport's most lucrative tour. She also won Olympic gold in the 800.Dibaba won...
Ethiopian Review (Free subscription) | 11/10/2008
... and 10,000 metres champion Tirunesh Dibaba, 800 metres gold medallist and Golden League winner Pamela Jelimo of Kenya and Russian pole vault champion and world record holder Yelena Isinbayeva were the three women chosen. The finalists were chosen following a poll of internet fans and the IAAF Family consisting of IAAF officials, member federations, ambassadors, leading athletes and...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 11/10/2008
... by 5,000m and 10,000m Olympic champion Tirunesh Dibaba of Ethiopia and Kenyan 800m sensation Pamela Jelimo, who also ran to gold in Beijing in August, in the women's list. The winners will be announced at the World Athletics Gala on November 23 in Monte Carlo. The vote conducted among the IAAF family (officials from the body and its member federations, leading athletes and media)...
