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Bekele and Gigi lead Ethiopian sweep in Florence
Florence, Italy – Ethiopia claimed a winning sweep at the 28th Florence Marathon in both men’s and women’s races thanks to Berga Birhanu Bekele who crossed the finish line first in 2:09:52 ahead of Gela Hailu Seifu (2:10:17) and favourite Asha Gigi, who won the women’s race in 2:31:36.
About 9000 runners toed the starting line at this IAAF Bronze Label Road Race from the Lungarnp Pecori...
Haile Gebrselassie wins Seven Hills Run in Nijmegen
Nijmegen, The Netherlands – The 28th edition of the ABN-AMRO Zevenheuvelenloop (Seven Hills Run) over 15 kilometres, today (20), witnessed a double Ethiopian.
The Zevenheuvelenloop is an IAAF Silver Label Road Race.
World famous Haile Gebrselassie won the men’s race in 42:44 with a wide margin over Kenyan Vincent Kipruo (43:15) and Eritrean Samsom Gezaihai (43:56). Waganesh Mekasha...
Maryam Yusuf Jamal wins in Monaco
Monte-Carlo – Ethiopian-born Maryam Yusuf Jamal of Bahrain won the Herculis/Samsung Diamond League‘s women 1,500m race here yesterday.
World 1500m champion Maryam Jamal showed her best form for some time, triumphing over a strong field in 4:00.59.
The Bahrain star, after the 400 and 800 markers were passed by an unchallenged pacemaker Molly Beckwith of the USA in 1:00.84 and 2:07.65, won comfortably...
7th IAAF World Youth Championships: Gotytom Gebreselassie wins gold medal in women’s 3,000m
Gotytom Gebreslase, 3000m World youth champion (Getty Images)
Lille, France – In the first track final of the 7th IAAF World Youth Championships and the final event of the evening session Ethiopian Gotytom Gebreslase scored a dramatic 3000m victory with the fastest time in the world this year to highlight the first day’s action in Lille.
The 16-year-old who set her previous best of 16:09.09 at...
Siraj Gena and Frehiwot Dado to defend Rome Marathon titles
Rome, Italy – Defending champions Siraj Gena and Frehiwot Dado of Ethiopia will return to defend their titles at Sunday’s (20) Rome Marathon.
Rome will host the first ever Italian IAAF Gold Label Road Race. No less than 16,188 runners coming from 84 different countries have entered the major Italian Marathon race which will toe the starting-line from the world-wide famous Fori Imperiali on Sunday...
Bright future for Ethiopian women athletes in 1,500m
Monte Carlo – The IAAF in its end of year review report has noted that Ethiopian female athletes have bright future in the 1,500m race.
The report indicated that a number of Ethiopian athletes, including Ethiopian-born Maryam Jamal and Mimi Belete, who represent Bahrain in international competitions, feature in the top list.
Gelete Burka was the most active and consistent this year, averaging around...
Meseret Defar of Ethiopia not among finalists for Athlete of the Year Award
Monte-Carlo – IAAF has announced the five female finalists for the 2010 World Athlete of the Year Award here today. Unfortunately, Meseret Defar of Ethiopia is not among the finalists.
The five finalists are: Veronica Campbell-Brown(Jamaica), Milcah Chemos Cheywa (Kenya), Jessica Ennis (Great Britain), Allyson Felix (USA) and Blanka Vlasic (Croatia)
The winners of the 2010 World Athlete...
Ethiopian Athletics: IAAF to announce award finalists tomorrow
Monte-Carlo – The online vote for the 2010 Athlete of the Year Award has now been closed, and Ethiopia’s star athlete Meseret Defar and millions of Ethiopian fans will have to wait until tomorrow when the International Association of Athletics Federation (IAAF) will announce the names of the finalists for the Male and Female Athletes of the Year.
The world-wide Athletics family will gather to celebrate...
Last call to nominate Meseret Defar of Ethiopia for Athlete of the Year Award
Zurich, Switzerland – Meseret Defar of Ethiopia had a commanding lead in the nomination of the IAAF Women Athlete of the Year poll for the past few weeks. But today, the situation has changed and Miclah Cheywa of Kenya now has a slight edge over her.
The same scenario has also developed in the men’s category as Zersenay Tadesse of Eritrea, who sat comfortably in the driver seat for a while, is...
Vote for Meseret Defar of Ethiopia for IAAF Athlete of the Year Award
Monte-Carlo – The IAAF will select the 2010 World Male and Female Athletes of the Year at the World Athletic Gala here on November 21.
A total of 20 candidate athletes (10 male and 10 female), including Meseret Defar of Ethiopia, have been chosen and the International Amateur Athletics Association (IAAF) is giving the public the opportunity to vote for the top three in each categories.
Meseret...