Dejen Gebremeskel

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Dejen Gebremeskel (center) at the World Athletics Championships 2011 in Daegu

Dejen Gebremeskel (born November 24, 1989 ) is an Ethiopian long-distance runner .

Gebremeskel took 18th place in the junior race of the 2008 World Cross Country Championships in Edinburgh. In the same year he won the bronze medal in the 5,000-meter run at the World Junior Athletics Championships in Bydgoszcz . He also won the Ekiden in Chiba with the Ethiopian team on his birthday . In 2010 he was tenth in the 3000 meter run at the World Indoor Athletics Championships in Doha and second behind the Kenyan Eliud Kipchoge at the Carlsbad 5000 .

In 2011, Gebremeskel won the 3000 meter race at the New Balance Indoor Grand Prix in Boston ahead of the Briton Mohamed Farah in early February , although he had already lost his right shoe on the first lap. A little later he took second place in the World's Best 10K in San Juan behind the Kenyan Sammy Kirop Kitwara . In April he won the Carlsbad 5000. Over 5000 meters he was fourth at the Golden Gala in Rome, first at the adidas Grand Prix in New York City and fourth at the Athletissima in Lausanne. At the World Athletics Championships in Daegu , he surprisingly got a bronze medal at this distance. Originally he had reached the goal in fourth, but moved up in the ranking after his compatriot Imane Merga , who placed third, was subsequently disqualified for illegally leaving the track.

In 2012 he was fifth over 3000 m at the World Indoor Athletics Championships in Istanbul . In July he qualified at the Diamond League meeting in Paris over 5000 m with the fifth fastest ever run time of 12: 46.81 min for the Olympic Games in London, where he won the silver medal. In 2013 he set a personal best in the 10,000 meter run in Sollentuna with 26: 51.02 m . He then went on to this distance at the World Championships in Moscow , but only achieved a disappointing 16th place. At the World Indoor Championships in 2014 in Sopot, Poland, he won the bronze medal over 3000 m.

Personal bests

  • 3000 m: 7: 51.02 min, May 30, 2009, New York City
    • Hall: 7: 34.14 min, February 23, 2012, Stockholm
  • 5000 m: 12: 46.81 min, July 6, 2012, Paris
    • Hall: 13: 11.78 min, February 6, 2010, Boston
  • 10,000 m: 26: 51.02 min, June 27, 2013, Sollentuna
  • 10K road run : 27:45 min, February 27, 2011, San Juan

Web links

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Footnotes

  1. ^ IAAF: Ethiopia sweeps Chiba Ekiden ( Memento of May 8, 2009 in the Internet Archive ). November 24, 2008
  2. ^ IAAF: "One shoe" Gebremeskel holds off Farah; Kipyego world lead in Boston ( February 8, 2011 memento in the Internet Archive ). February 6, 2011
  3. ↑ Augsburger Allgemeine : World Cup third Merga disqualified - Farah wins . 4th September 2011
  4. ↑ HDsports.at - running and athletics portal: world record holder Bekele missed Olympic qualification . July 6, 2012
personal data
SURNAME Gebremeskel, Dejen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Ethiopian long distance runner
DATE OF BIRTH November 24, 1989