Birhanu Balew
Birhanu Balew 
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| Full name | Birhanu Yemataw Balew | ||||||||||||||||||
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 Bahrain Ethiopia
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| birthday | 27th February 1996 (age 24) | ||||||||||||||||||
| place of birth | Ethiopia | ||||||||||||||||||
| size | 170 cm | ||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 59 kg | ||||||||||||||||||
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| discipline | Long distance running | ||||||||||||||||||
| status | active | ||||||||||||||||||
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| last change: February 4, 2020 | |||||||||||||||||||
Birhanu Yemataw Balew (born February 27, 1996 ) is a Bahraini long-distance runner of Ethiopian origin.
Athletic career
Birhanu Balew gained his first international experience at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro , where he finished ninth in the 5000 meter run with 13: 09.26 minutes in the final . 2017 he won the Kuwait-City Half Marathon in 1:01:45 hours and was at the IAAF World Cross Country Championships in Kampala 27 over 5000 meters, he qualified during the season for the World Championships in London , where he in 13:43, Came in at twelfth place for 25 minutes . The following year he was tenth in the 3000 meter run in 8: 18.89 min at the World Indoor Championships in Birmingham . At the end of August he took part in the Asian Games in Jakarta for the first time and won there in 13: 43.17 minutes ahead of his compatriot Albert Kibichii Rop over 5000 meters. Shortly thereafter, he was eighth over 3000 meters at the Athletics Continental Cup in Ostrava .
At the 2019 World Cross Country Championships in Aarhus , he finished 19th after 33:08 minutes and in April he won the Asian Championships in Doha in 13: 37.42 minutes over 5000 meters, which means he qualified for the World Championships there , where he finished ninth with 13: 14.66 minutes in the final . He then won the Military World Games in Wuhan in 14: 08.99 minutes.
Personal best
- 3000 meters: 7: 34.26 min, July 13, 2018 in Rabat
- 3000 meters (hall): 7: 34.58 min, February 19, 2020 in Liévin ( Asian record )
- 5000 meters: 12: 56.26 min, June 6, 2019 in Rome
- Half marathon: 1:01:45 h, January 14, 2017 in Kuwait City
Web links
- Birhanu Balew in the database of World Athletics (English)
- Birhanu Balew in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
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| SURNAME | Balew, Birhanu |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Balew, Birhanu Yemataw (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Bahraini long-distance runner of Ethiopian origin |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 27, 1996 |