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Wear burqa at the FBK Games 2009
Full name	Apply burqa bati
nation	Ethiopia
birthday	15th February 1986 (age 34)
place of birth	Kofele , Ethiopia
size	160 cm
Weight	43 kg
Career
discipline	Medium and long distance running
status	active
Medal table
World championships 0 × 1 × 0 × Indoor world championships 1 × 0 × 2 × Cross Country World Championship 6 × 2 × 1 × Africa Games 1 × 0 × 1 × African Championships 1 × 1 × 0 ×
World championships silver Beijing 2015 10,000 m  Indoor world championships gold Valencia 2008 1500 m bronze Doha 2010 1500 m bronze Istanbul 2012 3000 m  World Cross Country Championships bronze Lausanne 2003 U20 singles gold Lausanne 2003 U20 team gold Saint-Galmier 2005 U20 singles silver Saint-Galmier 2005 U20 team gold Fukuoka 2006 Short distance single gold Fukuoka 2006 Short haul team gold Mombasa 2007 team gold Edinburgh 2008 team silver Amman 2009 team  Africa Games gold Algiers 2007 1500 m bronze Brazzaville 2015 10,000 m  African Championships gold Addis Ababa 2008 1500 m silver Nairobi 2010 1500 m
last change: April 18, 2019

Gelete Burka (also Gelete Burka Bati ; born February 15, 1986 in Kofele , Arsi Province ) is an Ethiopian middle and long distance runner .

Life

She made her first international appearance at the junior women’s race at the 2003 World Cross Country Championships , where she won bronze. The following year she became Ethiopian champion in the 1,500 meter run and missed qualifying for the Olympic Games in Athens over this distance by just two tenths of a second.

In 2005 she won the junior women's race at the World Cross Country Championships in Saint-Galmier , became national champion over 1500 and 5000 meters and set a national junior record over 3000 meters with 8: 39.90 minutes . At the World Championships in Helsinki she was eighth over 1500 meters and second in the world athletics final over 3000 meters.

At the 2006 World Cross Country Championships in Fukuoka , she won the last short course. The following year she was fourth at the World Cross Country Championships in Mombasa and won over 1500 meters gold at the Pan-African Games . At the World Championships in Osaka , however, she was only tenth over 5000 meters.

In 2008 she won gold over 1500 meters at the World Indoor Championships in 2008 with the African record of 3: 59.75 minutes, was sixth at the World Cross Country Championships and won over 1500 meters at the African Championships in Addis Ababa . At the Olympic Games in Beijing , however, she was eliminated over 1500 meters in the lead.

Burqa (right) at the 2012 World Indoor Championships award ceremony

In 2009 she was eighth at the World Cross Country Championships in Amman and tenth over 1500 meters at the World Championships in Berlin . The following year she won bronze in the 1500 meter bronze medal at the World Indoor Championships in Doha and silver at the African Championships in Nairobi . In 2011 she was eliminated over this distance at the World Championships in Daegu in the preliminary stages, and in 2012 she won bronze over 3000 meters at the World Indoor Championships in Istanbul . At the 2012 Summer Olympics in London , she finished fifth in the final of the 5000 meter course in 15: 10.66 minutes.

In 2013, Burka won the 5-kilometer Carlsbad 5000 road race . After she mainly competed in track runs over 3000 and 5000 meters in the summer, she made her debut on the marathon distance at the Frankfurt Marathon. There she finished 12th in 2:30:40 h. In 2014, she climbed to 2:26:03 h in the Houston Marathon , finishing third. She also finished third in the Bogotá half marathon in 1:15:38 h. She finished the season in seventh place in the Chicago Marathon in 2:34:17 h.

In 2015, Burka increasingly focused on track racing again. At the 2015 World Championships in Beijing , she won the silver medal in the 10,000-meter run just behind Kenyan Vivian Jepkemoi Cheruiyot . Over the same distance she finished third at the Africa Games in Brazzaville . In 2016 she qualified for her third Olympic Games. In the 10,000 meter run final in Rio de Janeiro , she only reached 8th place despite a personal best of 30: 26.66 minutes.

In 2017, Burka competed again in both track and road races. She achieved notable results with her victories in the 10,000 meter run at the FBK Games in Hengelo and at the San Silvestre Vallecana in Madrid. In 2018, she increased her personal best at the Dubai Marathon to 2:20:45 hours and thus finished 6th. In the same year she celebrated her first victory on the marathon distance in Ottawa . She also won the Valencia half marathon in 1:06:11 h.

Burka achieved her most significant success in road running to date in April 2019 when she won the Paris Marathon in 2:22:47 h.

The 1.60 m tall burqa, who lives in Addis Ababa, weighed in at a competition weight of 43 kg in 2012. Her trainer is Tolossa Kotu, her manager Jos Hermens . She played soccer at school before she discovered running.

Personal bests

• 800 m : 2: 02.89 min, May 30, 2010, Hengelo
• 1500 m: 3: 58.79 min, June 1, 2009, Hengelo
  • Hall: 3: 59.75 min, March 9, 2008, Valencia
• 1 mile : 4: 18.23 min, September 7, 2008, Rieti
  • Hall: 4: 23.53 min, February 20, 2010, Birmingham
• 2000 m : 5: 30.19 min, September 4, 2009, Brussels
• 3000 m: 8: 25.92 min, July 25, 2006, Stockholm
  • Hall: 8: 31.94 min, February 16, 2008, Birmingham
• 5000 m: 14: 31.20 min, June 27, 2007, Ostrava
• Half marathon: 1:06:11 h, October 28, 2018, Valencia
• Marathon : 2:20:45 h, January 26, 2018, Dubai

Web links

Commons : Gelete Burqa  - Collection of Images

• Gelete Burka in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Portrait at IAAF - Focus on Athletes ( Memento from September 10, 2009 in the Internet Archive ), March 26, 2009
• Profile on www.london2012.com , accessed August 13, 2012
• Apply burqa in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Jörg Wenig: Five sub-2: 05: 30 men and Gelete Burka to make debut in Frankfurt Marathon ( English ) iaaf.org. October 16, 2013. Retrieved April 14, 2019.
2. ↑ Phil Minshull: Kenyan double in Bogota as Kamworor and Jeptoo triumph ( English ) iaaf.org. July 27, 2014. Retrieved April 14, 2019.
3. ↑ Emeterio Valiente: Burka and Kiptanui sign successful farewell to the year in Madrid ( English ) iaaf.org. January 1, 2018. Retrieved April 14, 2019.
4. ↑ Road round-up: Milaw and Burka prevail in Paris, Course record for Jerotich in Warsaw, Kimutai breaks course record in Wuhan ( English ) iaaf.org. April 14, 2019. Retrieved April 14, 2019.