BRUSSELS, September 5, 2008 (AFP) - Kenya's Pamela Jelimo scooped the Golden League million dollar jackpot Friday, after winning the 800m here to record her sixth successive win of the season.
The 18-year-old Olympic champion, one of a family of nine, recorded a time of 1min 55.16sec in the wet conditions at the Brussels meeting to take the prize, awarded to the athlete who wins all of their six Golden League outings.
Earlier it looked as if former world junoir champion would have to share the pot with high-jumper Blanka Vlasic, but the Croatian failed to win Friday's event.
Jelimo became the first ever Kenyan woman to win a track and field Olympic gold when she clinched the 800m final in Beijing in a world junior record of 1min 54.87secs on August 18.