Lelisa Desisa

Lelisa Desisa
Lelisa Desisa at the 2013 Boston Marathon
Full name	Lelisa Desisa Benti
nation	Ethiopia
birthday	14th January 1990 (age 30)
place of birth	Ethiopia
size	170 cm
Career
discipline	Long distance running
status	active
Medal table
World championships 1 × 1 × 0 ×
World championships silver Moscow 2013 marathon gold Doha 2019 marathon
last change: October 6, 2019

Lelisa Desisa Benti (born January 14, 1990 ) is an Ethiopian long-distance runner .

Career

The 2009 African junior champion over 10,000 meters finished third in the 2010 Zayed half marathon and second in the Paris half marathon . At the Ottawa Race Weekend he won over 10 km. He finished seventh at the 2010 Nanning Half Marathon World Championships and won bronze with the Ethiopian team, and came second at the Delhi Half Marathon .

In 2011 a third place in the World's Best 10K victories at the CPC Loop The Hague , the Half Marathon of the Pan-African Games in Maputo and the Delhi Half Marathon followed. In January 2013 he won the Dubai Marathon in 2:04:45 h on his debut over this distance . Three months later, he won the Boston Marathon in 2:10:22 , which was overshadowed by two bomb attacks a few hours later .

Marathon runner-up in 2013

At the World Championships in Moscow , he won the silver medal behind Olympic champion Stephen Kiprotich in the marathon .

In 2014 Desisa won the RAK half marathon in 59:36 minutes. At the Boston Marathon he entered as defending champion, but gave up the race prematurely.

On May 6, 2017, he started together with Zersenay Tadese and Eliud Kipchoge on the Formula 1 circuit in Monza for “Breaking2” with the running shoe manufacturer Nike's attempt to run the marathon in under two hours. The project failed.

Marathon world champion 2019

At the 2019 World Championships , the 29-year-old took first place in the marathon on October 5 in Doha , Qatar, with a time of 2:10:40 h.

Lelisa Desisa is 1.70 m tall.

Sporting successes (selection)

Personal bests

• 10,000 m: 27: 11.98 min, May 27, 2012, Hengelo
• 10 km road run : 27:57 min, November 27, 2011, New Delhi (intermediate time)
• Half marathon: 59:30 min, November 27, 2011, New Delhi
• Marathon: 2:04:45 h, January 25, 2013, Dubai

Web links

• Lelisa desisa in the database of World Athletics (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ IAAF: Desisa and Tune take Ottawa 10Km titles ( Memento June 2, 2010 in the Internet Archive ). May 30, 2010
2. ↑ IAAF: Desisa and Chepcirchir take almost Half Marathon wins in The Hague ( Memento of 16 March 2011 at the Internet Archive ). March 14, 2011
3. ^ IAAF: In close races, Desisa and Kabuu prevail in New Delhi Half ( Memento of November 29, 2011 in the Internet Archive ). November 27, 2011
4. ^ IAAF: Debutant Desisa wins Dubai Marathon in 2:04:45, five men under 2:05 . January 25, 2013
5. ^ IAAF: Desisa leads home a record eight men under one hour at RAK Half Marathon . March 14, 2014
6. ^ IAAF: Jeptoo breaks course record with third Boston victory while Keflezighi ends US drought . March 21, 2014
7. ↑ Breaking2: Questions and Answers
8. ↑ Marathon under two hours: Eliud Kipchoge just fails  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. FAZ Online, 6 May 2017  
9. ↑ Barbara Huebner: Caroline Rotich Sprints to Victory in 119th Boston Marathon ( English ) In: baa.org . Boston Athletics Association. April 26, 2015. Archived from the original on April 20, 2015. Retrieved on April 26, 2015.