Dibaba Would Have Won Men’s 10000m In 1948
Posted by Jimmie R. Markham | August 16, 2008
This kind of trivia staggers the imagination: Ethiopia’s Tirunesh Dibaba would have beaten the great Emil Zatopek by 4.94 seconds had she competed in the men’s 10000m at the 1948 London Olympics. In fact, Zatopek would have won only a bronze medal. Had Turkey’s Elvan Abeylegesse also been in the race, his gold medal-winning time of 29:59.60 would have been 3.26 seconds behind hers.
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