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Ethiopia Tries to Capitalize on Its Running Fame
The Great Ethiopian Run drew about 36,000 participants in November. New training centers and a new marathon could help attract top international runners.(Photo: Benno Muchler)
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — On a warm Sunday morning in late November, about 36,000 people set off on the Great Ethiopian Run, a 10-kilometer race across the center of Addis Ababa. Diplomats, students, merchants, Orthodox priests,...
Athletics: The little and large show
In his wildest dreams, Haile Gebrselassie never imagined the race he founded 11 years ago would become Africa’s largest mass-participation running event.
The man known as the Little Emperor fired the starter’s pistol for the 2001 Great Ethiopian Run, then jumped into the fray to become the first winner. There were 10,000 runners registered that day, along with thousands more “bandits”,...
Elley looking ahead to African road race
CHARITY fundraiser and Waringstown woman, Elley Martin is getting set for the trip of a lifetime this November when she travels with Citybeat radio presenter Paulo Ross to Ethiopia.
The duo will join 35,000 other competitors in the Great Ethiopian Run (GER), the biggest road race in Africa and once described as ‘the world’s toughest fun run’ to raise funds for Concern Worldwide, the international...
