Haile Gebrselassie is all too happy to reveal what drives him to get up at 5.30am every day on his way to clocking up 160 miles in training a week. The answer lies within the heart of every runner, fast or slow. "It is all about the people. If I didn't race I...
Ethiopian Haile Gebrselassie has agreed to compete at the Great North Run in September, 10 years after injury forced him to put off his debut at the event. The 37-year-old marathon world record holder was due to run in 2000 but tore his Achilles tendon while winning 10,000m gold at the Sydney Olympics....
UTICA, N.Y. (WKTV) – Lelisa Desisa of Ethiopia won the 2010 Boilermaker 15K Road Race Sunday and set a new course record in the process. Desisa ran the course in 42 minutes, 46 seconds. He broke the old record by a mere 8 seconds. Desisa also won the Bolder Boulder 10K race last...
Women's 1500m 1. Gelete Burka (Ethiopia) 3mins 59.28secs 2. Btissam Lakhouad (Morocco) 3:59.35 3. Nancy Jebet Langat (Kenya) 4:00.13 4. Lisa Dobriskey (Britain) 4:01.83 5. Morgan Uceny (U.S.) 4:02.40 6. Mimi Belete (Bahrain) 4:02.64 7. Viola Kibiwot (Kenya) 4:03.39 8. Christin Wurth-Thomas (U.S.) 4:03.44 Women's 3000m 1. Vivian Cheruiyot (Kenya) 8mins 34.58secs 2. Alemitu Bekele (Turkey) 8:35.19 3. Meseret Defar(Ethiopia)...
Ethiopian wants to become the first African woman to go under 8:20. Former Olympic and World 5,000-meter champion Meseret Defar of Ethiopia isn’t keeping any secrets to herself before Thursday night’s fully-loaded 3,000-meter race at the Athletissima meeting in Lausanne, Switzerland, the seventh stop on this summer’s IAAF’s Diamond League tour. “For me...
Gebre Gebremariam of Ethiopia won the 41st AJC Peachtree Road Race on Sunday, winning a sprint to the finish line of the 6.2-mile race through the streets of Atlanta. He beat Kenya’s Peter Kirui by a half-step in one of the closest finishes in the race’s history, winning in a time of 27...
Ethiopian Tirunesh Dibaba ran a meet-record 14:34 in the women’ 5,000 meters, outdistancing second-place finisher Shalane Flanagan of the OregonTrack Club by 15 seconds, as five women broke the 15-minute barrier in the race. Flanagan’s teammate, Olympian Amy Yoder-Begley, finished fifth in a personal-best 14:56.72. Recently crowned U.S. 5,000 -meter champion Lauren Fleshman...
Ethiopian superstar Tirunesh Dibaba has set her sights on breaking Wang Junxia's long-standing 10,000 metres world record. The 24-year-old has already bagged many top honours in a highly successful career to date, including the World Championship and Olympic 5,000m and 10,000m titles, but she remains ambitious for more. Her bid to better the...
APA-Addis Ababa (Ethiopia) - The Ethiopian Football Federation (EFF) on Monday officially signed a one year contract with a British coach of Nigerian descent who will train the Ethiopian national soccer team. The new coach, Ifem Onuora, 43, will be paid a monthly salary of $13,000, together with free telephone, housing and automobile for his...
ADDIS ABABA — Ghana's amazing run in the World Cup may be a source of inspiration for Africa, but it's also providing a wake-up call for African nations to lay more emphasis on improving their football standards. In Ethiopia, thousands of fans have turned up in droves to watch the African teams make their...
