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Latest News from Ethiopia – athletes’ information, training and competition news round-up from the Ethiopian capital of Addis-Ababa.
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.
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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.
Continue readingIt 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.
Continue readingDiribe 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.
Continue readingEthiopia’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.
Continue readingEthiopia’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.
Continue readingEthiopia’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.
Continue readingGenzebe 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.
Continue readingEthiopia’s Jemal Yimer and Ruti Aga, to headline the Ethiopian team to the 2018 IAAF World Half Marathon Championships in Valencia on 24 March.
Continue readingEthiopia’s Genzebe Dibaba clocked a world-leading time (3:57.45) to win the women’s 1,500m at the Indoor Meeting Karlsruhe, the first meeting of the 2018 IAAF World Indoor Tour, in Germany on Saturday.
Continue readingEthiopia’s Mosinet Geremew and Roza Dereje smashed the course records to take the men’s and women’s titles at the 2018 Standard Chartered Dubai Marathon, the world’s richest marathon on Friday.
Continue readingEthiopian distance running queen, Tirunesh Dibaba, is the first major name confirmed for the elite women’s race at the 2018 Virgin Money London Marathon.
Continue readingIt was a double triumph for the Ethiopian runners as Solomon Deksisa and Amane Gobena took the honours at the Tata Mumbai Marathon 2018, winning in 2:09:34 and 2:25:49 respectively on Sunday.
Continue readingEthiopian legend Kenenisa Bekele confirmed he will join Mo Farah and Eliud Kipchoge on the start line for the 2018 Virgin Money London Marathon on 22 April.
Continue readingEthiopian multiple world champion Kenenisa Bekele dominated the Tata Steel Kolkata 25K 2017, breaking away from his rivals just after 18 km before coming home in 1:13:48 on Sunday 17 December.
Continue readingEthiopian multiple world champion and world record-holder Kenenisa Bekele will be looking to add to his list of accolades at the Tata Steel Kolkata 25K on Sunday 17 December.
Continue readingEthiopian duo of Assefa Hunde and Ayelech Negussie has won the inaugural Sangai Run International Half Marathon that took place in the Indian state of Manipur on November 19
Continue readingEthiopia’s Berhanu Legese and Almaz Ayana triumph in 59:46 and 1:07:11 at the Airtel Delhi Half Marathon 2017, an IAAF Gold Label Road Race, on Sunday 19 November.
Continue readingEthiopia’s Shura Kitata Tola and Kenya’s Vivian Cheruiyot swept the top prizes at the 36th edition of the Mainova Frankfurt Marathon on Sunday.
Continue readingEthiopian-born Fate Tola returns to the Mainova Frankfurt Marathon on October 29 to improve her 2016 second place finish, but will have her former Ethiopian compatriot Abebech Afework and American Sara Hall to contend with.
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