Double Olympic champion Tirunesh Dibaba restored Ethiopia’s track pride when she won the women’s 10,000m at the African athletics championships here on Saturday.

The 24-year-old proved she has overcome the injuries that decimated her entire 2009 season when she lead compatriot Meselech Melkamu to gold and silver – the two precious medals that have eluded Ethopia in this competition.

Dibaba won in a relatively slow time of 31min 51.39sec while Melkamu, the world silver-medallist, clocked 31:55.50.