Elvan Abeylegesse

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Elvan Abeylegesse at the 2010 European Athletics Team Championships

Elvan Abeylegesse (* 11. September 1982 in Addis Ababa as Hewan Abeye ) is a Turkish Central and long-distance runner of Ethiopian origin, was closed as repeatedly convicted of doping sinner to 28 September 2017th

Career

Under her Amharic birth name Hewan Abeye, she was ninth for Ethiopia in the junior race of the 1999 World Cross Country Championships in Belfast . After a sports festival in Istanbul , she was so happy with the training conditions in Turkey that she decided to stay there. To get Turkish citizenship, she married and called herself Elvan Can from then on. She took her current name after her divorce. She starts for the Enka Sports Club in Istanbul and is trained by the former Bulgarian triple jumper Ertan Hatipoglu . The Ethiopian Association reacted to their behavior by issuing a training ban in Ethiopia, where Abeylegesse's family still lives with her seven siblings. Its popularity in Turkey is all the greater. The honorary president of her club, Şarık Tara, said that he valued her successes higher than the third place for the Turkish football team at the 2002 World Cup. Abeylegesse, in turn, expressed her commitment to her new home by swapping the Turkish flag after her world record over 5000 meters put her shoulders. She went down in history as the first Turkish athletics world record holder.

In 2001 she became European junior champion in the 3000 and 5000 meter run as well as in the cross country run. At the European Championships in Munich in 2002 , she was seventh over 5000 meters in 15: 24.41 minutes. Shortly afterwards she set the current Turkish record over 3000 meters with 8: 31.94 minutes. At the 2003 World Championships in Paris / Saint-Denis , she cracked the 15-minute mark in fifth with 14: 53.56 minutes.

The following year she broke the four-minute mark in the 1,500-meter run with 3: 58.28 minutes and then Jiang Bo's 5000-meter world record at 14: 24.68 minutes at the Bislett Games in Bergen from 1997. At the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens , however, she was only twelfth over 5000 meters in 15: 12.64 minutes and eighth over 1500 meters in 4: 00.67 minutes. At the European Championships in Gothenburg in 2006 , she won the bronze medal over 5000 meters in 14: 59.29 minutes. Earlier this year she had set Turkish records in the 10,000 meter run (30: 21.67 min) and in the 10 km road run (30:57 min). In 2007 she started at the World Championships in Osaka . Their placements were later canceled due to doping .

In 2008 she shared victory with Grace Kwamboka Momanyi at the premiere of the World 10K Bangalore . She then won two silver medals (later revoked for doping) at the Olympic Games in Beijing . In an extremely fast 10,000 meter race, she only had to admit defeat to her former compatriot Tirunesh Dibaba and, like her , stayed below the 30-minute mark. With 29: 56.34 min she broke the European record of Paula Radcliffe and temporarily took fourth place on the all-time world best list. She won the second silver medal over the 5000 meters.

In 2010 she won the RAK half marathon . Her time of 1:07:07 h is the fastest half marathon debut of a woman to date. In the same year she won the gold medal over 10,000 meters and the silver medal over 5000 meters at the European Championships in Barcelona . Since the IAAF subsequently banned the original Turkish winner Alemitu Bekele for doping , she also became European champion over this route.

Abeylegesse decided not to take part in the 2011 World Championships in Daegu , as well as in all other competitions of the season , due to her pregnancy . Her and her husband's daughter, Semeneh Debelie, was born in late July 2011 with the name Arsema.

Elvan Abeylegesse is 1.59 m tall and weighs 40 kg.

doping

In 2015 and 2016 it became known that doping samples she submitted at the 2005 and 2007 World Championships were positive in a follow-up test. Her results from those years were deleted and she was banned for two years. In addition, at the end of March 2017, the silver medals of the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing in the 5000 and 10,000 meters were officially revoked , as her results from August 25, 2007 to August 25, 2009 were canceled.

Personal bests

Awards

Web links

Commons : Elvan Abeylegesse  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Jo Pavey: Briton set to receive bronze from 2007 World Championships. In: bbc.com. March 29, 2017. Retrieved April 23, 2019 .
  2. ^ IAAF: Abeylegesse obliterates the women's 5000m World record in Bergen - TDK Golden League ( Memento of February 14, 2009 in the Internet Archive ). June 11, 2004
  3. ↑ scc-events.com: Record holder Elvan Abeylegesse faster than Paavo Nurmi once . June 12, 2004
  4. ^ IAAF: Tadese the men's 10km victor, while Abeylegesse and Momanyi share women's spoils in Bangalore ( Memento from May 20, 2008 in the Internet Archive ). May 18, 2008
  5. ↑ a b Silke Bernhart: Now it's official: Two Turkish runners lose Olympic silver , IAAF decision, on: Leichtathletik.de, from March 29, 2017, accessed March 29, 2017
  6. ↑ IAAF: Stunning 1:07:07 Half Marathon debut by Abeylegesse Ras Al Khaimah ( Memento from February 20, 2010 in the Internet Archive ). February 19, 2010
  7. ↑ Christian Fuchs: Alemitu Bekele loses European title , www.leichtathletik.de January 16, 2013
  8. ↑ European Athletics: Congratulations to Elvan Abeylegesse and Jonna Tilgner ( Memento from May 2, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) September 2, 2011
  9. ↑ Elvan anne oldu (Elvan became a mother) (Turkish)
  10. ↑ Worlds silver medallist Abeylegesse among positive dope tests ( Memento from August 15, 2015 in the web archive archive.today ); Long-distance runner Elvan Abeylegesse banned for two years. Olympic runner-up banned for doping . Sport1, March 31, 2016; accessed on August 13, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Abeylegesse, Elvan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Abeye, Hewan (maiden name); Can, Elvan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Turkish middle and long distance runner of Ethiopian origin
DATE OF BIRTH September 11, 1982
PLACE OF BIRTH Addis Ababa