Meseret Defar: World Record Holder

[Prague, February 26. Image via Getty.]

Meseret Defar of Ethiopia poses for pictures after breaking the world record of women two miles race at the World Record Holders Athletics Meeting in Sazka Arena on 26 February 2009 in Prague. She set a new world indoor two-mile record of 9min 06.26sec. (MICHAL CIZEK/AFP/Getty Images)