Tirunesh Dibaba (Oromo: Xirunesh Dibaabaa, Amharic: ጥሩነሽ ዲባባ ቀነኒ; born 1 October 1985) is an Ethiopian athlete who competes in long-distance track events...
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Dibaba is an Oromo name. Notable people with the surname include: Tirunesh Dibaba, Ethiopian long-distance runner who has achieved multiple Olympic and...
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Olympic medalists, which includes her sisters Tirunesh and Ejegayehu, and her aunt Derartu Tulu. Genzebe Dibaba is a member of the Oromo ethnic group from...
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on 15 August at the Beijing National Stadium. The race was won by Tirunesh Dibaba of Ethiopia, who set a new Olympic record time of 29:54.66. The qualifying...
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for Kenya, with reigning Olympic champion Tirunesh Dibaba of Ethiopia taking bronze. Ethiopia's Tirunesh Dibaba entered as the defending 2012 Olympic champion...
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taking silver behind compatriot Tirunesh Dibaba in 2008, before regaining the title in London in 2012. Defar and Dibaba are the only athletes with three...
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village as Kenenisa Bekele. She is the aunt of Ejegayehu Dibaba, Tirunesh Dibaba and Genzebe Dibaba. Derartu is the first Ethiopian woman and the first black...
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second behind Swedish runner Abeba Aregawi but beat Ethiopia's Genzebe Dibaba in third. In August, at the Moscow World Championships, the 19-year-old...
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podium on three occasions: Defar was also the 2008 bronze medallist, Tirunesh Dibaba won medals from 2004 to 2012, and Paavo Nurmi won medals in the period...
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third fastest female athlete over that distance, behind compatriots Tirunesh Dibaba, the world record holder, and Meseret Defar. At the Beijing World Championships...
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champions, long-distance runners Kenenisa Bekele and Tirunesh Dibaba. Among these champions, Dibaba managed to defend her Olympic title, in the women's...
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in 4:03.62 after Genzebe Dibaba who won in 4:03.06. In the final Kipyegon took the Olympic gold medal with 4:08.92, Dibaba was the runner up with 4:10...
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related to track Olympic champion, world record holder and compatriot Tirunesh Dibaba. Her first high-profile outing came at the Ethiopian 20 km championships...
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have achieved the feat: Derartu Tulu won her second title in 2004 and Tirunesh Dibaba had back-to-back wins in 2008 and 2012. Derartu Tulu is the only athlete...
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Republic of China from August 8 to August 24, 2008. 10,000 m runner Tirunesh Dibaba ran the second fastest 10,000 metres of all time, setting an Olympic...
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broke it again in 2007 and held it until 2008, when fellow Ethiopian Tirunesh Dibaba beat her time. In 2007 on a track in Brussels Belgium, she became the...
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Olympic medalists, including her sisters Tirunesh and Genzebe, and her cousin Derartu Tulu. Ejegayehu Dibaba is an Ethiopian long-distance runner from...
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multi-gold medalists Meseret Defar, Derartu Tulu, Almaz Ayana, Genzebe Dibaba and Tirunesh Dibaba. Ethiopia has added more events to the list of its prominence...
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Kenenisa Bekele matched his feat of four consecutive titles in 2009. Tirunesh Dibaba is the most successful woman, with three gold medals to her name (2005...
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front, with the Kenyan team and Russian Liliya Shobukhova trailing. Tirunesh Dibaba jumped into the lead with the expected chase coming from Meseret Defar...
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through 15K was 2:57 per kilometre. She lowered by more than 2 minutes Tirunesh Dibaba's 2009 world record set also at the Zevenheuvelenloop in 46:28, which...
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Pas-de-Calais (FR). The former mark of 3:55.17 set by her compatriot Genzebe Dibaba in 2014 was lowered by Gudaf to 3 minutes 53.09 seconds. In June, she posted...
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three of them having won medals, including two-time defending champion Tirunesh Dibaba in the women's 10,000 metres, steeplechaser Sofia Assefa, and long-distance...
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Former women's world record holder Tirunesh Dibaba (right) leading another former world record holder Meseret Defar (centre) at the 2012 Olympic 5000 m...
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Ethiopia's Mestawet Tufa in 2008. The record was beaten in 2009 by Tirunesh Dibaba, also from Ethiopia, who posted a new world record of 46:28 minutes...
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2023 Hengelo 13 29:39.42 Tsegay #3 8 May 2021 Maia 10 14 29:42.56 Tirunesh Dibaba Ethiopia 12 August 2016 Rio de Janeiro 11 15 29:47.42 Grace Loibach...
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distance runners, including Haile Gebrselassie, Kenenisa Bekele and Tirunesh Dibaba. She is from a Christian family but it is not certain if she has converted...
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relay / 4 × 400 m mixed relay 2009 2019 *** 5 *** * 1 * – **** 6 **** Tirunesh Dibaba Ethiopia 5000 m / 10,000 m 2003 2017 5 1 – 6 Natasha Hastings United...
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200 m splits in some of her races. She is one of two women (the other Tirunesh Dibaba) who won the short and long course World Cross Country title at the...
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