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Lead Stories: Thursday, August 28, 2008

Records, Upsets Highlight Boston Indoor Games

Posted January 27th, 2008 at 10:00 AM by David Monti

Section: News & Results, Track & Field

A world best by Meseret Defar, an all-comer’s record by Craig Mottram, and upset winners in both the men’s and women’s miles gave the sell-out crowd of over 4000 fans plenty to cheer about at the 13th Reebok Boston Indoor Games here tonight at the Reggie Lewis Center at Roxbury Community College.

Defar, of Ethiopia, the reigning Olympic and world champion at 5000m, made her seventh appearance at this meeting her best yet. Paced by Serbia’s Marina Muncan and pushed by New Zealand’s Kim Smith, Defar destroyed Regina Jacobs’s 2002 two mile world best by nearly 13 seconds. With Smith never more than a few steps back, Defar went through the first mile in four minutes and 38 seconds, and came back to run the second half in 4:33.5, breaking the tape in 9:10.50. Smith powered home right behind her, running the #2 indoor time ever in history: 9:13.94.
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Strong Men’s 3-K Shaping Up for Reebok Boston Indoor Games

Posted January 5th, 2008 at 11:31 AM by David Monti

Section: News & Results, Track & Field, College

A strong men’s 3000m race is shaping up for the Reebok Boston Indoor Games scheduled for Saturday, January 26 at the Reggie Lewis Track Facility at Roxbury Community College in Boston.

Leading the field will be Australia’s Craig Mottram, the defending champion and the 2005 IAAF World Championships bronze medalist at 5000m. “It will be a good opportunity to measure my race form after some very good training down here in Australia since November,” said Mottram via e-mail from his high altitude training base in Falls Creek, Victoria.

Mottram clocked an Australian record 7:39.24 when he won in Boston last year, running 54.99 for the final 400m despite taking the opportunity to celebrate a little in the final lap. “That was one of my best races, ever,” he told Race Results Weekly after the race. Mottram also won the two-mile event which was held at this meet in 2006.
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