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Latest News from Ethiopia – athletes’ information, training and competition news round-up from the Ethiopian capital of Addis-Ababa.
Ethiopians Kenenisa Bekele and Tirunesh Dibaba won the men’s and women’s races at the Bupa Great Manchester Run in the North West of England on Sunday May 18, 2014.
Continue readingHellen Onsando Obiri sets a new African and Kenyan record in the women’s 3000m at the 2014 IAAF Diamond League in Doha on Friday, leading a Kenyan sweep home in 8:20.68.
Continue readingAfrican 800m stars Mohammed Aman of Ethiopia and Nijel Amos of Botswana talk tactics, friendship and David Rudisha on the eve of 2014 IAAF Diamond league kick-off in Doha.
Continue readingChelsea FC fan Genzebe Dibaba has an unfinished business in Doha. After two disappointments, Dibaba is favourite to win the IAAF Diamond Race 3000m on Friday.
Continue readingWorld 800m champion Mohammed Aman of Ethiopia is the latest star to join the field of the IAAF Diamond League Doha 2014 after world record-holder and Olympic champion David Rudisha of Kenya pulls out.
Continue readingTirunesh Dibaba, the reigning world and Olympic champion at 10,000m, returns to the North West of England to defend her title in the Bupa Great Manchester Run on Sunday May 18.
Continue readingEthiopia’s Dejen Gebremeskel set a new men’s event record of 13:26 to win, in a photo finish, his second consecutive title at the sixth annual B.A.A. 5K in Boston on Saturday.
Continue readingEthiopian Getu Feleke clocked a superb course record of 2:05:41 to win the 31st Vienna City Marathon in good weather conditions on Sunday.
Continue readingDistance running legend Haile Gebrselassie will open the 2014 Virgin Money London Marathon Expo at London Dockland’s Excel Exhibition Centre at 11am on Wednesday April 9, 2014.
Continue readingEthiopia’s three-time Olympic champion Kenenisa Bekele notched up another impressive milestone in an already glittering career by winning the Schneider Electric Marathon de Paris (Paris Marathon) on Sunday on his marathon debut.
Continue readingEthiopian Genzebe Dibaba crowned a spectacular winter season with victory in the women’s 3000m clocking 8:55.04 ahead of Kenyan Hellen Onsando Obiri at the World Indoors Championships in Sopot, Poland on Sunday.
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Ethiopia’s Mohammed Aman won back to back World Indoor 800m gold medal on Sunday at the World Indoor Championships in Sopot, Poland after overtaking two Polish athletes in the final 50m to successfully defend his title from Istanbul 2012. The…
Continue readingEthiopia’s Genzebe Dibaba smashed another world Indoor record, her third in 2 weeks, this time the two-mile record at the British Indoor Grand Prix meeting in Birmingham on Saturday. , 23, who’s the younger sister of World and Olympic 10,000m…
Continue readingGerman-based Ethiopian, Eleni Gebrehiwot, defended her title at the ING Euro Cross Country meeting in the Luxembourg town of Diekirch on Sunday. Gebrehiwot, 31, won the 2014 Diekirch Euro Cross comfortably clocking a time of 20:28 over the 5.5km course ahead of 2012 winner Almensch Belete, from…
Continue readingEthiopia’s Genzebe Dibaba broke the world indoor 3000m record with a stunning 8:16.60 run at the Stockholm’s XL Galan, an IAAF Indoor Permit meeting in Sweden on Thursday. Coming only five days after , Germany, the younger underlined her piping…
Continue readingEthiopian Genzebe Dibaba smashed the women’s 1500m World Indoor Record at the IAAF Indoor track and field meeting in Karlsruhe, Germany on Saturday. Dibaba, the reigning World Indoor world champion, dusted a quality field by almost 13 seconds, winning in…
Continue readingA combination of the biggest pot of prize money and most pancake-flat course among the major marathons means that extraordinary results can be expected in Dubai. The has maintained that sequence and the tantalising prospect of a world record remains….
Continue readingEthiopian World cross-country vice champion Imane Merga celebrated his third victory at the BOclassic New Year’s Eve run after an incredibly thrilling finish in 28 minutes and 43 seconds. Merga, who had already defeated Olympic champion Mo Farah in Bozen/Bolzano, stood up…
Continue readingEthiopian Imane Merga and Kenyan Gladys Cherono will start as favourites at the 39th edition of the International New Year’s Eve Run – BOClassics in Bozen/Bolzano, Italy. Following the example of Sao Paolo, in 1975 the Runners’ Association of Bozen/Bolzano…
Continue readingThe World 800m champion Mohammed Aman believes he has had the perfect year after his success in the Diamond league and at the World Championships in Moscow. Speaking to journalists ahead of the 2013 World Athletics Gala in Monaco about his season and…
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