BOSTON (Dec. 4) - Carolina Kluft and Meseret Defar, widely considered the top female track-and-field athletes in the world, will be among the headliners at the 2008 Reebok Boston Indoor Games on Jan. 26, organizers announced today. Tickets for the 13th annual Olympic-style event are on sale now by calling 1-877-TIX-TRAC.

As reigning Olympic gold medalist in the heptathlon, Kluft owns the unofficial title of World's Best Female Athlete. The 24-year-old from Sweden reinforced her claim last summer by becoming the first three-time heptathlon World Champion in the history of the sport. In Boston, she will compete in the long jump, her best individual event. In 2004, she made the Olympic long jump final just days after winning heptathlon gold.

Defar's 2007 season, meanwhile, was highlighted by four World Records and a World Championship gold medal at 5000 meters. The Ethiopian distance star, also 24, was honored last month by the International Association of Athletics Federations, the world's governing body of the sport, as 2007 World Athlete of the Year. Last year, Defar set world marks at 3000 meters indoors, 5000 meters and 2 Miles (twice). The distance at which she will compete in Boston is yet to be announced.