Bekana Daba
Bekana Daba (born July 29, 1988 in Wollega ) is an Ethiopian long-distance runner .
At the 2007 World Athletics Championships in Osaka, he was eliminated over 5000 m in the preliminary run. In 2009 he won the Carlsbad 5000 , but again did not get past the preliminary round of the 5000 meter run at the World Championships in Berlin . At the end of the season he won the Las Vegas Marathon on the half marathon route .
In 2010 he finished fourth in the New York City Half Marathon and twelfth in the Amsterdam Marathon . In 2011 he set a course record in the Houston Marathon .
Bekana Daba is trained by Tolosa Kotu and supervised by Global Athletics & Marketing .
Personal bests
- 3000 m (hall): 7: 40.92 min, February 2, 2008, Stuttgart
- 5000 m: 12: 58.51 min, June 4th 2010, Oslo
- Hall: 13: 11.78 min, February 6, 2010, Boston
- Half marathon: 1:01:23 h, March 21, 2010, New York City
- Marathon : 2:07:04 h, Jan. 30, 2011, Houston
Web links
- Bekana Daba in the database of World Athletics (English)
- Athlete portrait on marathoninfo.free.fr
Footnotes
- ^ IAAF: Ethiopians dominate Carlsbad 5000 ( Memento of April 9, 2009 in the Internet Archive ). April 6, 2009
- ^ IAAF: Daba breaks Houston record with rainy 2:07:04 run ( Memento of February 3, 2011 in the Internet Archive ). January 31, 2011
- ↑ Athlete portrait ( Memento of the original dated February 3, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the Global Athletics & Marketing website
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Daba, Bekana |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Ethiopian long distance runner |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 29, 1988 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Woolga |