Ghirmay Ghebreslassie

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Ghirmay Ghebreslassie athletics

Ghirmay Ghebreslassie (2) Beijing 2015.jpg
Ghirmay Ghebreslassie 2015 in Beijing

nation EritreaEritrea Eritrea
birthday 14th November 1995 (age 24)
place of birth Eritrea
Career
National squad since 2013
status active
Medal table
World championships 1 × gold 0 × silver 0 × bronze
IAAF logo World championships
gold Beijing 2015 marathon
last change: July 27, 2017

Ghirmay Ghebreslassie (born November 14, 1995 ) is an Eritrean long-distance runner . He became world champion in the marathon in 2015 .

Career

Ghebreslassie gained his first international experience at the World Cross Country Championships 2013 in Bydgoszcz, where he finished seventh in the junior race. Only one week later he won the half marathon race at the Paderborn Easter run in 1:00:07 h. At the 2014 Half Marathon World Championships in Copenhagen, he finished seventh in 1:00:10 h. In the same year he won the Göteborgsvarvet and the Giro di Castelbuono . He also started the Chicago Marathon as a pacemaker and finished the race in sixth place in 2:09:08 hours.

In April 2015, Ghebreslassie achieved a new personal best in second place in the Hamburg Marathon with 2:07:47 h.

Winner of the marathon at the 2015 World Championships in Beijing

He celebrated the greatest international success of his career up to then four months later with the surprising title win at the World Championships in Beijing . This made him the youngest marathon world champion in history and the first gold medalist from Eritrea at world athletics championships.

At the end of April 2016, Ghebreslassie increased his best performance at the London Marathon by one second to 2:07:46 h and finished fourth in the high-class race. Three weeks later he won the Bern Grand Prix over 10 miles (16.093 km) in 47:01 minutes.

Olympic Games 2016

In the marathon of the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro he finished fourth in 2:11:04 h. In November he won the New York City Marathon in 2:07:51 h. This made him the youngest winner of this race to date.

At the London Marathon 2017 , Ghebreslassie finished sixth in 2:09:57 h.

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wilfried Raatz: 67th Paderborn Easter Run - 17-year-old Eritrean runs world-class time alone . German Road Races. March 30, 2013. Archived from the original on September 24, 2015. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved August 22, 2015. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.germanroadraces.de
  2. ↑ a b Diego Sampaolo: Eritrean teenager Ghebreslassie makes history in Beijing ( English ) IAAF. August 22, 2015. Retrieved August 22, 2015.
  3. ^ Marathon Hamburg: 2015 Rotich and Hailu in Hamburg ahead . runnersworld.de. April 26, 2015. Retrieved August 22, 2015.
  4. ↑ Steven Mills: Kipchoge runs 2:03:05 to win the London Marathon, second fastest time ever ( English ) IAAF. April 24, 2016. Retrieved June 5, 2016.
  5. ↑ Micha Jegge: The world champion feels “at home” in Bern . Bern newspaper. May 15, 2016. Retrieved June 5, 2016.
  6. ↑ Hat trick and surprise win . runnersworld.de. November 7, 2016. Retrieved November 7, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Ghebreslassie, Ghirmay
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Eritrean long-distance runner
DATE OF BIRTH November 14, 1995