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Sport NewsDoha 2010 named Kalkidan Gezahegne youngest ever female championPublished: Mar 15, 2010 by bini
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 Ethiopia did take another women’s 1500m
title, but the gold didn’t go to defending champion Gelete Burka.Running with the grit and determination of a seasoned veteran, 18-year-old Kalkidan Gezahegne effortlessly kicked past Burka and Spaniard Natalia Rodriguez to become the youngest woman to ever win a World indoor title. “I was hesitating to attack after falling down in the heats,” said Gezahegne, whose tumble to the track and brave run to victory was perhaps the major highlight on the opening day of competition. “At the end my finish was enough.” Three gold medals for Ethiopia at Doha 2010Published: Mar 14, 2010 by bini
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Ababa (Ethjournal) Ethiopian athletes collected three gold medals,
ranking Ethiopia second after the United States at the on-going
International Association of Athletics Federation (IAAF) championship in
Doha, Qatar. The Ethiopian victory, being regarded also as an African victory, makes the Ethiopians, who have been following the championship on Ethiopian Television (ETV), quite happy. The IAAF World Indoor Championships, which started last Friday, will end on Sunday. The Ethiopians won two gold medals on Saturday in the 3,000 and 1,500 metres in the men championship while they won gold on Sunday in the 1,500 metres women. Meseret Defar wins fourth straight indoor 3000m titlePublished: Mar 13, 2010 by bini
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 DOHA — Ethiopian Meseret Defar won a record fourth consecutive women's world indoor 3000m title on Saturday.Defar, who won Olympic 5000m gold at the Athens Games and a bronze in Beijing, clocked 8min 51.17sec. "I'm very happy with this race and my fourth gold medal," she said. "It was an easy victory for me because the pace was slow. "I changed my tactics. I was thinking about a fast race but then I saw it would be better to wait with the final kick. That worked well." The Ethiopian, who also won world outdoor 5000m gold in 2007, finished 0.68sec ahead of Kenyan world 5000m champion Vivian Cheruiyot in silver. Lagat takes on Kenya, Ethiopia in Doha showPublished: Mar 12, 2010 by Helly
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A mouthwatering battle between Kenya, USA and Ethiopia is in the offing on Friday night as the IAAF world indoor championships get underway in Doha. The men’s 3,000 metres promises to be intriguing with Kenyan-born American Bernard Lagat matched against Ethiopian defender Tariku Bekele and the Kenyan pair of Sammy Mutai and Augustine Choge. Lagat will be chasing his second gold medal in the event six years after winning for Kenya in 2004. The women’s race seasonal leader, Meseret Defar of Ethiopia, is bidding for a fourth consecutive global indoor title along with Russian pole vault queen Yelena Isinbayeva. Ethiopia's only winter Olympian Robel Teklemariam heading to the 2010 Winter OlympicsPublished: Feb 2, 2010 by bini
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 Ethiopia's
distance runners are world renowned, but given the East African
country's climate and negligible snowfall, its winter sport athletes are
scarce, to say the least.One man is doing everything in his power to change that. Cross-country skier Robel Teklemariam is Ethiopia's only winter Olympian. He will be competing at the Vancouver Games in the men's 15-kilometre race on Feb. 15, aiming to improve upon his 84th-place finish at the Torino Olympics four years ago. The 35-year-old has a much bigger objective: to set the stage for other Ethiopians to follow in his tracks. "After Turin, I met a lot of Ethiopian skiers, but so far, none of them are racers," says Teklemariam. "They just go out and enjoy skiing or snowboarding. Haile Gebrselassie wins Dubai Marathon for third time but misses RecordPublished: Jan 22, 2010 by bini
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 Haile Gebrselassie clinched the Standard Chartered Dubai Marathon title for the third successive year this morning but it was an unconvincing victory in a slow time of two hours six minutes nine seconds. Despite achieving his hat-trick, Gebrselassie failed by a big margin to challenge his 18-month-old world record of 2hr 3min 59sec in an attempt which never materialised from the start of the race. The race began at a snail's pace and the nearest margin the pacemakers got to the figure he set in Berlin was 38 seconds when the pack went through nine kilometres in 26 min 43sec. Thereafter it went even further off schedule and instead of it passing through the halfway point in 61min 59sec, a pack of seven went through in a time of 62 min 51 sec. Haile aims to break his own marathon world record in Dubai to collect $1 millionPublished: Jan 20, 2010 by bini
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United Arab Emirates — Aiming to break his own marathon world record on
Friday at the Dubai Marathon, Haile Gebrselassie says "it's possible."The 36-year-old Ethiopian will pick up a US$1-million bonus - on top of the $250,000 winner's prize - if he improves on his record of two hours three minutes 59 seconds set in Berlin in 2008. "To break the world record in marathon, everything needs to be perfect," Gebrselassie said Wednesday, two days ahead of his first race in 2010. "This year it looks like it's possible." Terefe Yea of Ethiopia won the men’s marathon at the Arizona Rock ’n’ Roll racesPublished: Jan 18, 2010 by bini
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The Olympic bronze medalist Deena Kastor won the women’s half-marathon, and Terefe Yea of Ethiopia finished first in the men’s marathon at the Arizona Rock ’n’ Roll races Sunday in Phoenix. Simon Bairu of Canada upset the United States record holder Ryan Hall in the men’s half-marathon, and Teyba Naser, a 23-year-old Ethiopian, was the women’s marathon winner.
The top American in the men’s marathon was Jeff Eggleston, who finished sixth in his first attempt at the distance. Kastor, who was the marathon bronze medalist at the 2004 Athens Games, won a race for the first time in 10 months. She broke her right foot in the 2008 Beijing Olympics marathon. Her time was 1 hour 9 minutes 43 seconds. She was on pace for the American record before a headwind and lack of competition slowed her in the second half of the race. An estimated 32,000 runners participated in the races, with 70 bands entertaining them along the route.  Source: The New York Times How Bekele and Dibaba are changing distance runningPublished: Jan 7, 2010 by Helly
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 I'm not sure we know how lucky we are that Kenenisa Bekele and Tirunesh Dibaba have chosen to make so many appearances in the United Kingdom.The world's two greatest distance runners - with a collective total of 45 Olympic and world golds - are due to be in action again at the Great North Cross Country in Edinburgh on Saturday. Between them they have won this corresponding race on seven occasions and in Bekele's case, his 2001 victory as a teenager was the first of a six-year 27-race win streak at cross country. The Ethiopian pair are not just great distance runners, they are among the finest sportsmen of their generation. Having dominated for most of the noughties there is every sign they will do so throughout the "teens" and even into the 2020s. Kenenisa Bekele Targets 3,000 Meters World Indoor RecordPublished: Dec 25, 2009 by Helly
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 LONDON (Reuters) - Twice Olympic 10,000 meters champion Kenenisa Bekele has his sights set on setting a fourth world indoor record in Birmingham, England next year. The Ethiopian will race over 3,000 meters, the distance at which he won his only world indoor title in 2006, at the February 20 Grand Prix at the National Indoor Arena (NIA) where he has run three of his five personal best times on the indoor circuit. Haile Gebrselassie to face Great Britain's fastest marathon runner Tomas AbyuPublished: Dec 22, 2009 by bini
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 Abyu, a decade after fleeing Ethiopia, will come face-to-face again with Gebrselassie at the 2010 Standard Chartered Dubai Marathon on January 22. The 31-year-old Manchester based athlete is counting the days until he once again meets the sporting legend in the world's richest marathon. Eritrea football team defects in Kenya, only the coach and officials back in AsmaraPublished: Dec 15, 2009 by bini
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Eritrea football team 'absconds' in Kenya Officials have launched a search for Eritrea's national football team after the players reportedly failed to return home following a tournament in Kenya. The Eritreans were knocked out of the Cecafa competition for East and Central African nations last week. But when the team plane landed back home, it was reportedly only carrying the coach and an official. Kebede vs Mogusu? – Fukuoka Marathon on Dec 6, 2009Published: Dec 4, 2009 by Helly
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 Ethiopia: The first private Athletics Village to be built in SulultaPublished: Dec 4, 2009 by bini
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The shareholders of the company include two athletes - The first private Athletics Village to be built in Sululta December 4, 2009 Addis Ababa - Yaya Africa Athletics Village P.L.C, a new company established in 2009 has begun the construction of a modern athletics village in Sululta, 11 KM outside the city of Addis Ababa. Ashenafi Tekeste Wins Stage 3 of Addis Ababa Cycling ChampionshipPublished: Dec 2, 2009 by bini
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 Addis Ababa (December 2, 2009) - Ehel Negd’s Ashenafi Tekeste has demonstrated his ever-improving sprinting skill when he won his second consecutive stage series of the Addis Ababa Cycling Championship here on Sunday. In this 3rd stage of the championship, Ashenafi
convincingly beats Assegid Hailu of Garad to cross the finish line with
clear margins while Elias Walelign of Ehel Negd finishes 3rd.
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