Cragg right on track for Mottram head-to-head in Boston
The two will meet over 3000 metres at the Reebok Boston Indoor Games on January 27. Both Mottram, the 2005 World Cross-Country bronze medallist, and Ireland’s Cragg, the 2005 European Indoor Champion at 3000m, have won at the Boston meet before.
Mottram, the first non-African to win a medal at 5000m in a major championship since 1987, won a two-mile race over a stacked field in Boston last year that included Cragg, who finished third, less than a second behind. In 2005, Cragg, Ireland’s national record-holder indoors at 3000, won at that distance in an upset over Ethiopian star Kenenisa Bekele.