Berehanu Tsegu

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Berehanu Tsegu athletics
Full name Berehanu Wendemu Tsegu
nation EthiopiaEthiopia Ethiopia
birthday 30th September 1999 (age 20)
place of birth Wallo ,  Ethiopia
Career
discipline 10,000 meter run
Best performance 27: 00.73 min
status active
Medal table
Africa Games 1 × gold 0 × silver 0 × bronze
Africa Games logo Africa Games
gold Rabat 2019 10,000 m
last change: March 16, 2020

Berehanu Wendemu Tsegu (born September 30, 1999 ) is an Ethiopian long-distance runner .

Athletic career

Berehanu Tsegu gained his first international experience at the African Cross Country Championships 2018 in Ech Cheliff , where he finished fourth in the U20 class after 25:11 minutes. The following year he was second at the EDP Meia Maratona de Lisboa with 59:41 min and then won the Jianzhen International Half Marathon with 59:56 min. At the Africa Games in Rabat , he won the 10,000 meter run in 27: 56.81 minutes.

doping

At the Copenhagen half marathon he was third in 59:22 minutes. The Independent Athletes Commission (AIU) suspended him in December 2019 on suspicion of blood doping . In March 2020, he was banned for four years retrospectively from September 15, 2019 and his result from the Copenhagen Marathon was canceled because he had tested positive for the doping agent EPO .

Personal best

  • 10,000 meter run: 27:00, 73 min, July 17, 2019 in Hengelo
  • Half marathon: 59:22 min, September 15, 2019 in Copenhagen canceled due to doping

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Alexandra Dersch: Flash News of the Day - African Champion Berehanu Tsegu blocked , on: Leichtathletik.de, from March 21, 2020, accessed March 21, 2020
personal data
SURNAME Tsegu, Berehanu
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tsegu, Berehanu Wendemu (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Ethiopian long distance runner
DATE OF BIRTH September 30, 1999