Gudaf Tsegay drives Ethiopian sweep of 1500m podium in Belgrade
The 25-year-old eclipsed the championship record of 3:59.75, held by compatriot Gelete Burka, to lead an Ethiopian clean sweep of the women’s 1500m, crossing the line in 3:57.19.
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The 25-year-old eclipsed the championship record of 3:59.75, held by compatriot Gelete Burka, to lead an Ethiopian clean sweep of the women’s 1500m, crossing the line in 3:57.19.
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Ethiopian Dawit Seyaum, previously a 1500m specialist, steps up with world 5km record in Lille on Saturday.
The world and Olympic 10,000m medallist also becomes just the second athlete in history to hold world records for 5000m, 10,000m and the half marathon.
Ethiopians Guye Adola scores unexpected triumph in Berlin, debutant Gotytom Gebreslase surprises to win women’s title.
Ethiopian Kenenisa Bekele makes his fourth appearance in Germany’s biggest and most spectacular marathon, while his compatriot Hiwot Gebrekidan will run in Berlin’s women’s field for the first time.
Yalemzerf Yehualaw becomes the first woman to break 64 minutes for the half marathon, running a remarkable 1:03:43 at the Antrim Coast Half Marathon.
Ethiopian Selemon Barega takes a thrilling gold in the men’s 10,000 metres final, the first gold medal in the athletics at Tokyo 2020 Olympics, on Friday.
Letesenbet Gidey improved Sifan Hassan’s mark by five seconds to win the Ethiopian Trials in 29:01.03 on Tuesday.
World bronze medallist Gudaf Tsegay sets the track alight at the Meeting d’Athletisme Hauts-de-France Pas-de-Calais – a World Athletics Indoor Tour Gold meeting.
Ethiopian Lemlem Hailu’s world U20 indoor 1500m record of 4:01.57, set at the World Athletics Indoor Tour meeting in Lievin on 19 February 2020, has been ratified.
Ethiopia’s Tsehay Gemechu retained her Airtel Delhi Half Marathon title but added lustre to her triumph by smashing the course record she had set 12 months ago in the Indian capital when she ran 66:00 on Sunday.
Course Record Holder Meskerem Assefa returns to defend the women’s title, while Junior World Record Holder Tsegaye Mekonnen joins the men’s field at the 2019 Mainova Frankfurt Marathon.
For Lelisa Desisa, victory on Doha’s famous Corniche not only ended a 42-kilometre road race, but a six-year journey to redemption following his narrow defeat at the Moscow 2013 World Championships.
Ethiopia’s distance running great, Kenenisa Bekele, made a sensational return to his international best with victory at the BMW BERLIN-MARATHON, missing the world record by just two seconds on Sunday.
Distance running great Kenenisa Bekele will lead the Ethiopian charge for world class times at the 46th edition of the BMW BERLIN-MARATHON on Sunday September 29, 2019.
Ethiopia’s Andamlak Belihu Berta beats a world-class field to win the men’s race, in 27:56, at the TCS World 10K Bengaluru 2019 on Sunday May 19.
Deme Tadu Abate and Dibabe Kuma celebrated success in duplicate for Ethiopia at the Haspa Marathon Hamburg on Sunday.
Ethiopia’s Yomif Kejelcha smashed the world indoor record for the mile, clocking 3:47.01 at the Bruce Lehane Invitational in Boston, Massachusetts, on Sunday.
Ethiopia’s Samuel Tefera upstaged compatriot Yomif Kejelcha to break the long-standing world indoor 1500m record at the IAAF World Indoor Tour meeting in Birmingham on Saturday.
Kenya’s Cosmas Lagat and Ethiopia’s Worknesh Alemu upset the odds and take the honours at the Tata Mumbai Marathon 2019
Debutante Tsehay Gemechu breaks Airtel Delhi Half Marathon women’s course record with 1:06:50, as Andamlak Belihu and Amdework Walelegn go 1-2 for Ethiopia in the men’s race.
Ethiopian Jemal Yimer Mekonnen wins the men’s 10,000m title to claim the first gold medal of the 21st CAA African Senior Championships in Athletics in Asaba, Nigeria – Asaba 2018.
Alemaz Samuel Teshale became the third successive Ethiopian winner of the women’s 1500m at the IAAF World U20 Championships Tampere 2018 in Finland on Sunday.
It took a fierce homestretch battle between Takele Nigate of Ethiopia and Kenyan Leonard Bett before the Ethiopian could wrestle away Kenya’s reign in the men’s 3000m Steeplechase event after 15 consecutive editions on Sunday at Tampere 2018.
Diribe Welteji opened Ethiopia’s gold medal account of the 2018 IAAF World U20 Championships in Tampere, Finland on Thursday with a stunning victory in the Women’s 800m final, crossing the finish-line in 1:59.74 – the first sub-two-minute clocking in the 32-year history of the championships.
Ethiopia’s Samuel Tefera won his country’s fourth gold medal of the championships in just his fourth ever indoor race, kicking hard in the latter stages of a highly tactical 1500m to deny Poland’s Marcin Lewandowski and Morocco’s 2012 champion Abdelaati Iguider.
Ethiopia’s Yomif Kejelcha successfully defended his 3000m title with a powerful display of front running over the final kilometre of a tactical final on the final day of the IAAF World Indoor Championships Birmingham 2018.
Ethiopia’s Genzebe Dibaba stormed to her fourth successive world indoor title, and third successive in the women’s 3000m at the 2018 IAAF World Indoor Championships in Birmingham last night.
Genzebe Dibaba headlines the Ethiopian team to the 2018 IAAF World Indoor Championships in Birmingham, UK, and will compete in the women’s 1500m and 3000m from 1-4 March.
Ethiopia’s Jemal Yimer and Ruti Aga, to headline the Ethiopian team to the 2018 IAAF World Half Marathon Championships in Valencia on 24 March.