Posts Tagged ‘Athletics’

Ethiopia’s Urga Negewo sets a new record in Belfast Marathon

May 9 | Posted by Ethiopiaforums | Athletics, News, Sport Tags: , , , , , , , , , ,

ATHLETICS: Records tumbled for the second successive year in yesterday’s 31st Deep RiverRock Belfast City Marathon. Ethiopia’s Urga Negewo returned to the event he won two years ago, to repeat his 2010 feat – and this time knocked more than a minute off the record, striding home on a wet and windy morning in 2:13:41. Defending champion Joseph Chesire, who set a new... Read more

Ethiopian Solomon Deksisa wins Bridge Run

April 1 | Posted by Ethiopiaforums | Athletics, Ethiopian, News, Sport, Uncategorized, United States Tags: , , , , , , ,

CHARLESTON, SC (WCSC) – Officials have announced the winners of the 35th annual Cooper River Bridge Run. Solomon Deksisa, 21, from Ethiopia, was the first to cross the finish line in the main race.  He finished with a time of 29:37. The female winner, 33-year-old Janet Cherobon-Baucom finished with a time of 33:01.  She is the first American woman to finish first since the... Read more

Ethiopia’s Olympic champions Kenenisa Bekele and Tirunesh Dibaba Banned From Competition With Other 35 Athlets

January 21 | Posted by Ethiopiaforums | Athletics, Ethiopia, News, People, Sport, Uncategorized Tags: , , , , , ,

Kenenisa Bekele, Ethiopia’s Olympic 5,000 and 10,000 metres champion, is among 35 athletes banned from competition by their national federation in a row over training. The Ethiopian Athletics Federation, angry over flagging results in recent years, summoned 200 athletes to a training camp two months ago ahead of the World Indoor Championships in March and the London Olympics in July and... Read more

Ethiopians Dominate Florence Marathon in Men and Women

November 27 | Posted by Ethiopiaforums | Athletics, News, Sport, Uncategorized Tags: , , , , , , , ,

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... Read more

Ethiopian Mohammed Amman won 800 meters in Milan, Rare loss for Kenyan Rudisha

September 19 | Posted by Ethiopiaforums | Athletics, Ethiopian, News, Sport, Uncategorized, World Tags: , , , , , , ,

MILAN (AP) – World record holder David Rudisha had a rare loss in the 800 meters Sunday, finishing second to Mohammed Amman of Ethiopia at the Milan Notturna meet. The 17-year-old Aman passed Rudisha entering the final straight at Milan’s 19th century Arena Civica and edged the Kenyan to the line in 1 minute, 43.50 seconds –... Read more

15 Ethiopian Athelets Missing

September 14 | Posted by Ethiopiaforums | Africa, Athletics, Ethiopian, News, Sport, Uncategorized Tags: , , , , , , ,

Maputo, Mozambique, Sept. 14, GNA – The Local Organising Committee (LOC) of the 10th All Africa Games has announced that 15 Ethiopian athletes are missing from the Games Village, 11 days into the competition in Maputo, Mozambique. Penalva Cesar, Deputy Director of the LOC and a Spokesperson in an address at a press conference on Wednesday in Maputo, said they have received... Read more

Ambitious Mare Dibaba looking for Ethiopian Olympic spot in Toronto

September 14 | Posted by Ethiopiaforums | Athletics, Ethiopia, Ethiopian, News, People, Sport, Uncategorized, World Tags: , , , , , , , , , ,

Toronto, Canada – With defending Scotiabank Toronto Waterfront Marathon champion Sheron Cherop representing Kenya at the 2011 IAAF World Athletics Championships in Daegu, Korea, the women’s STWM race ought to be wide open. But nobody needs to tell Mare Dibaba that.  The 21-year-old Ethiopian has been on a tear since her debut Marathon in Rome in... Read more

Ethiopian Runners Take Five Medals in All-African Games

September 12 | Posted by Ethiopiaforums | Athletics, Ethiopian, News, Sport, Uncategorized Tags: , , , , , , , , , ,

Ethiopian long-distance runners dominated the first day of athletics at the All-Africa Games on Sunday. The country took the top three positions in the men’s 3 000-metre steeplechase with Birhan Getahun Shiferaw crossing the line first in 8:17.36. He was followed by Roba Gari Chubeta, with Sisay Koreme Mojo third. In the women’s 5 000m, Ethiopian Sule Utura Gedo... Read more

Ethiopian Mehari Gebre Baraki wins inaugural Liberia Marathon

August 29 | Posted by Ethiopiaforums | Africa, Athletics, Ethiopian, News, People, Sport, Uncategorized, World Tags: , , , , , , , ,

APA Monrovia (Liberia) Ethiopian runner Mehari Gebre Baraki, 23, clocked a little over two hours to win the inaugural Liberia Marathon in which a pack of 1,500 registered runners, including Liberian leader Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, took part on Sunday. Baraki, who in April this year won the Alexander The Great Marathon in Thessaloniki, Greece, finished first in an event which was almost marred by heavy rain... Read more

Athletics- Kenenisa Bekele to defend world title despite year out

August 17 | Posted by Ethiopiaforums | Ethiopia, News, People, Uncategorized, United States Tags: , , , , , ,

By Gene Cherry RALEIGH, North Carolina (Reuters) – Ethiopian Olympic and world champion Kenenisa Bekele will defend his 10,000 metres world title later this month despite not having raced since early 2010, his manager said on Tuesday. “He is going to Daegu and (will) run. He is training well,” Jos Hermens told Reuters in a telephone interview. Bekele, 29, has never lost a 10,000 race on the... Read more

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