Alemayehu Bezabeh

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Alemayehu Bezabeh athletics

Alemayehu Bezabeh Dublin 2009.JPG
Alemayehu Bezabeh when he won
the 2009 European Cross Country Championship

nation SpainSpain Spain
birthday 1st January 1986 (age 34)
place of birth Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
size 175 cm
Weight 60 kg
Career
society Club Atletico Bikila
last change: April 4, 2020

Alemayehu Bezabeh (born January 1, 1986 in Addis Ababa ) is a former Spanish long-distance runner of Ethiopian origin.

Career

Shortly after obtaining Spanish citizenship , he started at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing and finished eleventh in the 5000-meter run . At the European Cross Country Championships in Brussels , he finished seventh and won the team championship with Spain. At the end of the season he finished second at the San Silvestre Vallecana .

At the 2009 World Cross Country Championships in Amman, Bezabeh reached 31st place. He took part in the 2009 World Championships in Berlin , but retired over 5000 meters in the preliminary round. In the same year he celebrated the greatest success of his career to date by winning the European Cross Country Championships in Dublin . He unexpectedly beat the two favorites Mohammed Farah from the United Kingdom and Serhij Lebid from Ukraine. Spain won the team championship again.

At the 2010 World Cross Country Championships in Bydgoszcz, Bezabeh took 14th place. At the beginning of June he achieved a Spanish record over 5000 meters at the Bislett Games in Oslo with a time of 12: 57.25 minutes. Eight weeks later he was seventh at the European Championships in Barcelona over the same distance in 13: 43.23 minutes.

Doping ban 2010

Three days before the European Cross Country Championships in Albufeira , Bezabeh was caught red-handed by the Civil Guard attempting blood doping . At the Operación Galgo , which was being held at the same time , his trainer Manuel Pascua was arrested, along with thirteen other people, including sports doctor Eufemiano Fuentes , on suspicion of trafficking in doping substances . The Spanish athletics association RFEA then deleted Bezabeh from the list for the European Cross Country Championships at short notice. In late March 2011, Spanish media reported that the RFEA had acquitted him for lack of evidence. The Spanish High Council for Sport ( Consejo Superior de Deportes, CSD for short) challenged the judgment and demanded a four-year ban for the athlete. Finally, the Spanish Sports Disciplinary Committee ( Comité Español de Disciplina Deportiva, CEDD for short) stipulated a two-year ban as a compromise.

In August 2015 at the World Athletics Championships in Beijing, he ran the 5000 m in 13: 54.13 min. At the 2015 European Cross Country Championships in December, he won the silver medal and the gold medal with the Spanish team in the team classification. In 2017, Bezabeh announced that he would also start in the marathon in 2018 .

His older brother Sisay Bezabeh (* 1977) has Australian citizenship, was also active as a long-distance runner and is a two-time Olympic athlete (2000, 2004).

Personal bests

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ El País : "¿Por qué no puedo correr el domingo?" (Spanish), December 12, 2010.
  2. ↑ The Standard : Operación Puerta and Pandora's Box , December 13, 2010.
  3. ↑ Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung : “For want of evidence” , March 31, 2011.
  4. ^ Süddeutsche Zeitung : Doping acquittal for Bezabeh - Just one attempt , March 30, 2011.
  5. ^ El Mundo : El informe de la Agencia Estatal Antidopaje, clave en la sanción a Bezabeh (Spanish), June 10, 2011.
  6. ↑ Bezabeh anuncia que en 2018 correrá pruebas de maratón y no hará pista (November 5, 2017)
personal data
SURNAME Bezabeh, Alemayehu
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish long distance runner of Ethiopian origin
DATE OF BIRTH January 1, 1986
PLACE OF BIRTH Addis Ababa