World Athletics Tours resumes Saturday in Dakar
Posted April 26th, 2007 at 9:43 AM by Bob Ramsak
Section: News & Results
The IAAF World Athletics Tour resumes on Saturday with the Meeting International d’Athletisme de la Ville de Dakar in the Senegalese capital.
The program includes both the men’s and women’s 800, and a men’s 3000. Among the athletes expected to compete are Jolanda Ceplak, the world indoor record holder at 800m and the Olympic bronze medallist, and Kenyans Joseph Ebuya and Sammy Kipketer in the men’s 3000m.
Last year a crowd of more than 60,000 spectators gathered in the Leopold Senghor stadium. The meet opens with competition in the men’s shot put on the day before, held on the nearby Island of GorĂ©e, for 300 years the staging point for African slave trade.
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Tags: Dekar, IAAF World Athletics Tour, Island of Gorée, Jolanda Ceplak, Joseph Ebuya, Leopold Senghor stadium, Meeting International dAthletisme de la Ville de Dakar, Sammy Kipketer
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