Ethiopia

Ethiopia’s world youth 3000m champion Yomif Kejelcha after winning the men’s 5000m at the 2014 IAAF World Junior Championships - Oregon 2014 / Photo credit: Jeffrey Mercado

Oregon 2014: Kejelcha spearheads Ethiopian 5000m double in Eugene

July 28, 2014

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Ethiopia’s world youth 3000m champion Yomif Kejelcha led for most of the last kilometre to win the men’s 5000m in 13:25.19 at the 2014 IAAF World Junior Championships in Eugene, Oregon.

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Ethiopia

Genzebe Dibaba returns with victory at Rome's Golden Gala

June 6, 2014

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Yomog Meje

Ethiopia’s Genzebe Dibaba, put her patchy outdoor season form behind her with a strong performance to win the women’s 5000 metres at the IAAF Diamond League – Golden Gala meeting in Rome on Thursday.

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Kenenisa Bekele and Wilson Kipsang at Bupa Great Manchester Run

Ethiopia

Ethiopians Bekele and Dibaba win Great Manchester Run

May 18, 2014

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Yomog Meje

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.

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Hellen Obiri wins in Doha - Photo: Doha LOC / Hasse Sjögren

Ethiopia, Kenya

Hellen Obiri smashes African 3000m record in Doha - IAAF Diamond League

May 9, 2014

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Yomi Omogbeja

Hellen 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.

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African 800m stars Mohammed Aman of Ethiopia and Nijel Amos of Botswana / Photo credit: Doha LOC

Botswana, Ethiopia

Aman and Amos face-off in Doha - IAAF Diamond League

May 9, 2014

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ATAF Editors

African 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.

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Ethiopia

Genzebe Dibaba's unfinished business in Doha

May 9, 2014

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Yomog Meje

Chelsea 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.

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Ethiopia

Aman in, Rudisha out as Africans storm IAAF Diamond League Doha

May 6, 2014

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Yomi Omogbeja

World 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.

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Ethiopia

Tirunesh Dibaba eyes Bupa Great Manchester Run title defence

May 5, 2014

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ATAF Editors

Tirunesh 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.

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Ethiopia

Gebremeskel smashes men's course record at 2014 B.A.A 5K

April 20, 2014

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ATAF Editors

Ethiopia’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.

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Ethiopia

Getu Feleke breaks course record with 2:05:41 in Vienna

April 14, 2014

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Motunde Smith

Ethiopian Getu Feleke clocked a superb course record of 2:05:41 to win the 31st Vienna City Marathon in good weather conditions on Sunday.

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Kenenisa Bekele celebrated his success on the podium alongside Farah and Haile Gebrselassie, also from Ethiopia, who came third

East Africa, Ethiopia

Haile Gebrselassie to open the London Marathon Expo

April 8, 2014

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ATAF Editors

Distance 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.

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2014 Schneider Electric Marathon de Paris winners

East Africa, Ethiopia

Bekele breaks course record on marathon debut in Paris

April 6, 2014

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ATAF Editors

Ethiopia’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.

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Genzebe Dibaba wins the women's 3000m in 8:55.04 ahead of Kenya's Hellen Onsando Obiri (8:57.72) in Sopot / Photo Credit: Yomi Omogbeja

East Africa, Ethiopia

Genzebe Dibaba crowns Indoor season with Sopot Gold

March 10, 2014

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Yomi Omogbeja

Ethiopian 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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