Got Jifar

Habte Jifar (born January 29, 1976 in Ambo ) is an Ethiopian long-distance runner .

He won a medal a total of five times with the Ethiopian team at the World Cross Country Championships : bronze in 1996 and 1997, silver in 1998, 1999 and 2002. His best individual placement was a ninth place in 1999.

At the Pan-African Games he won silver over 5000 m and 10,000 m and in 1999 bronze over 10,000 m. At the World Athletics Championships he was seventh in Athens in 1997 , sixth in Seville in 1999 and ninth in Edmonton in 2001 .

He then began a career as a marathon runner . In 2004 he was third in the Leipzig Marathon , in 2005 seventh in the Hamburg Marathon and third in the Cologne Marathon and in 2006 fifth in the Los Angeles Marathon .

Personal bests

• 5000 m: 13: 10.74 min, August 1st, 1998, Hechtel
• 10,000 m: 27: 06.45 min, May 30, 1999, Hengelo
• Half marathon : 1:03:22 h, October 7, 2001, Breda
• Marathon: 2:12:39 h, March 19, 2006, Los Angeles

Web links

• Managed Jifar in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Athlete portrait on marathoninfo.free.fr