Kidane Tadasse
Kidane Tadasse , also Tadesse or Tadese , (* 1987 in Adi Bana ) is an Eritrean long-distance runner . His older brother Zersenay Tadese is a multiple world champion and former world record holder on the half-marathon distance .
Life
Tadasse finished sixteen and eleven in the junior races of the 2005 and 2006 World Cross Country Championships . At the World Junior Athletics Championships in Beijing in 2006 , he was sixth in the 5000 meter run . Also in the Chinese capital, he made his first appearance in the adult sector. At the Olympic Games in 2008 , he was tenth in the 5000 m and finished twelfth in the 10,000-meter run .
At the World Athletics Championships in Berlin in 2009 he reached ninth place over 10,000 m, while he missed the finals in the 5000-meter run. In 2010 he finished fifteenth at the World Cross Country Championships in Bydgoszcz and won the silver medal in the national ranking with the Eritrean team.
Top performances
- 5000 m: 13: 11.85 min, June 9, 2010, Huelva
- 10,000 m: 27: 06.16 min, May 31, 2008, Neerpelt
- Half marathon : 1:01:06 h, October 18, 2015, Valencia
Web links
- Kidane Tadesse in the database of World Athletics (English)
- Kidane Tadasse in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
Remarks
- ↑ The correct transcription of the name from Amharic is Tadese. In contrast to his brother Zersenay Tadese, the IAAF World Athletics Federation does not use Kidane Tadasse under this name.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Tadasse, Kidane |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Tadese, Kidane; Tadesse, Kidane; Tadesse Habtesilase, Kidane |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Eritrean long-distance runner |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1987 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Adi Bana |