Lemawork Ketema

Lemawork Ketema
nation	Austria
birthday	22nd October 1986 (age 33)
place of birth	Ethiopia
Career
Best performance	Half marathon: 1:03:54 h. Marathon: 2:10:44 h
status	active
Medal table
Austrian championships 2 × 0 × 0 ×
Austrian championship gold Graz 2017 half marathon gold Graz 2018 half marathon
last change: December 26, 2019

Lemawork Ketema Weldearegaye (born October 22, 1986 near Huruta, Ethiopia ) is an Austrian marathon runner of Ethiopian origin. He is a two-time national champion in the half marathon (2017, 2018).

Career

Lemawork Ketema came to Austria in 2013 and applied for asylum there. He had to stay in Austria during the ongoing asylum procedure and cancel all offers from international marathon events.

Winner of the first “Wings for Life World Run” 2014

In March 2014 he won the Vienna Half Marathon and in May in St. Pölten with 78.57 km the first edition of the Wings for Life World Run . In October he won the Graz Marathon .

In May 2015 he started as the defending champion at the Wings for Life World Run and was able to set a new record after running 79.9 km and win this worldwide running event for the second time. In July he finished second at the Rio de Janeiro Marathon after 2:14:23 hours with a personal best in the marathon.

In December 2015, Ketema received Austrian citizenship.

He had set himself the goal of starting the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro for Austria, but could not achieve this with his result in Hamburg: Ketema ran the marathon in 2:16:19 h and the ÖOC Olympic limit for Rio 2016 stands at 2:14:00 h in the marathon.

State champion half marathon 2017

In March 2017 he became national champion half marathon in Graz. At the Wings for Life World Run in May 2017, he was the fastest Austrian runner in the world rankings.

In May 2018 Lemawork Ketema was nominated for the marathon team at the European Athletics Championships in Berlin (6-12 August 2018). There he finished eighth in the individual ranking. He also won the bronze medal in the team classification. In October 2018, the then 31-year-old was again national champion half marathon in Graz.

Sporting successes

Top performances

• Half marathon : 1:03:57 h, March 24, 2018, Valencia ( ESP )
• Marathon : 2:10:44 h, April 7, 2019, Vienna ( AT )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Lemawork Ketema ran the Austrian marathon record. Retrieved April 7, 2019 . 
2. ↑ Wings for Life World Run: Ethiopia Wins (May 5, 2014)
3. ↑ Lemawork Ketema wins in 2:22:08 (October 12, 2014)
4. ↑ Champions' Pick: Ketema remains loyal to Austria (October 22, 2014)
5. ↑ Wings for Life World Run: Lemawork Ketema once again global winner (May 3, 2015)
6. ↑ Council of Ministers decided to naturalize nine athletes (December 17, 2015)
7. ↑ Lemawork Ketema is hot for a new record (April 30, 2015)
8. ↑ Talents who are (almost) on the street: professional runner and refugee Lemawork Ketema (September 3, 2015)
9. ↑ ÖLV nominates four athletes for the marathon team at EM in Berlin ( Memento of the original from May 15, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
10. ↑ Marathon medal for Austria: Lemawork Ketema and Peter Herzog in the top 10. In: HDsports.at. Retrieved August 12, 2018 . 
11. ↑ Lemawork Ketema in 2:14:23 second at the marathon in Rio de Janeiro  ( 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. (July 27, 2015)  
12. ↑ Ketema again "Wings for Life World Run" winner (May 3, 2015)
13. ↑ Lemawork Ketema - winner of the 16th Wien Energie Half Marathon (March 17, 2015)
14. ↑ Over 70,000 start simultaneously worldwide (April 29, 2015)
15. ↑ 2013 - 10th SALZBURG MARATHON