Derartu Tulu

Derartu Tulu
nation	Ethiopia
birthday	March 21, 1972
place of birth	Bekoji
size	155 cm
Weight	44 kg
Career
discipline	Long distance running
Best performance	14: 44.22 min ( 5000 m ) 30: 17.49 min ( 10,000 m ) 2:23:30 h ( marathon )
status	resigned
Medal table
Olympic games 2 × 0 × 1 × World championships 1 × 1 × 0 × Junior World Championship 1 × 0 × 0 × Cross Country World Championship 6 × 5 × 0 ×
Olympic games gold Barcelona 1992 10,000 m gold Sydney 2000 10,000 m bronze Athens 2004 10,000 m  World championships silver Gothenburg 1995 10,000 m gold Edmonton 2001 10,000 m  Junior World Championships gold Plovdiv 1990 10,000 m  World Cross Country Championships silver Aix-les-Bains 1990 team silver Antwerp 1991 singles silver Antwerp 1991 team gold Durham 1995 singles silver Durham 1995 team silver Stellenbosch 1996 team gold Turin 1997 singles gold Turin 1997 team gold Vilamoura 2000 singles gold Vilamoura 2000 team gold Brussels 2004 team

Derartu Tulu ( Amharic : ዻራርቱ ቱሉ; born March 21, 1972 in Bekoji ) is an Ethiopian long-distance runner . She was twice Olympic champion and once world champion in the 10,000 meter run and six times world champion in cross country .

biography

Tulu first attracted attention when she won the silver medal at the 1991 World Cross Country Championships . At the 1991 World Championships in Tokyo , she was eighth over 10,000 meters. Over the same distance she won the gold medal at the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona and the silver medal at the 1995 World Championships in Gothenburg . In 1995 she also won the first of three world championship titles in cross country; more followed in 1997 and 2000. She was also successful in road races early in her career. In 1994 she won the Corrida Internacional de São Silvestre and in 1996 the Great South Run . In 1997 she competed at the Boston Marathon and finished fifth.

At the Olympic Games in Sydney in 2000 she won the gold medal over 10,000 meters for a second time, this time with her personal best of 30: 17.49 minutes. Shortly thereafter, she won the first edition of the Portugal Half Marathon . At the 2001 World Championships in Edmonton , she was the first time world champion over 10,000 meters. But she was also successful in the marathon course this year: She won the London Marathon in 2:23:57 h and the Tokyo International Women's Marathon . In 2003 she triumphed in the Lisbon Half Marathon .

At the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens , she was third over 10,000 meters behind Xing Huina (CHN) and her cousin Ejegayehu Dibaba . In the following year she was third in the Nagano Marathon , fourth in the marathon of the World Championships 2005 in Helsinki in her personal best of 2:23:30 h, winner of the Great North Run and the Great South Run and third in the New York City Marathon . After a two-year break from competition, she returned in 2008 with a second place in the Madrid Marathon . At the end of the season she won the Course de l'Escalade . In 2009 she first came fourth in the Nagano Marathon and then became the first Ethiopian female runner to win the New York City Marathon.

Derartu Tulu is 1.55 m tall and weighs 44 kg. She comes from the same village as the successful long-distance runner Kenenisa Bekele . In 1998 she became the mother of a daughter. Tulu is an athlete ambassador for the development aid organization Right To Play .

Personal bests

• 3000 m : 8: 46.32 min, June 25, 2000, Portland
• 5000 m : 14: 44.22 min, September 5, 2003, Brussels
• 10,000 m : 30: 17.49 min, September 30, 2000, Sydney
• Half marathon : 1:08:26 h, September 24, 1995, Grevenmacher
• Marathon : 2:23:30 h, August 14, 2005, Helsinki

Web links

• Derartu Tulu in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Derartu Tulu in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Athlete portrait on marathoninfo.free.fr

Individual evidence

1. ^ IAAF: Keflezighi and Tulu triumph in New York ( Memento of November 3, 2009 in the Internet Archive ). November 1, 2009