News (Free subscription) | 21/11/2008
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) | 07/11/2008
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...
All Africa (Free subscription) | 14/10/2008
Olympic champions Pamela Jelimo and Samuel Wanjiru have been short listed for this year's IAAF World Athlete of the Year Award.
Sports Jamaica (Free subscription) | yesterday
... 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.
Ethiopian Review (Free subscription) | 10/11/2008
... 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) | 10/11/2008
... 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)...
atHome Top Story (Free subscription) | 10/11/2008
... 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...
Mail & Guardian (Free subscription) | 18/10/2008
In the 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 town...
Sports Jamaica (Free subscription) | 14/10/2008
... (Jamaica), Tirunesh Dibaba (Ethiopia), Gulnara Galkina-Samitova, Yelena Isinbayeva (Russia), Pamela Jelimo (Kenya) Françoise Mbango (Cameroon), Barbora Spotakova (Czech Republic), Valerie Vili (New Zealand) and Blanka Vlasic (Croatia).
All Africa (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
... and helped create more interest in track and field and we are glad that, as a result, a new star, Pamela Jelimo, the Olympic 800 metres champion and Kenya's first women's gold medallist at the Olympics, was born," Mwangi said.At the New KCC Athletics Tour, cash awards are on offer with the winners getting Sh2,000, runners' up Sh1,500 and third placed athletes Sh1,000.Last year, the...
