Letesenbet Gidey

Letesenbet Gidey
Letesenbet Gidey in Hengelo 2016
nation	Ethiopia
birthday	20th March 1998 (age 22)
place of birth	Ethiopia
Career
discipline	Long distance running
status	active
Medal table
World championships 0 × 1 × 0 × World Cross Country Championships 5 × 0 × 1 ×
World championships silver Doha 2019 10,000 m  World Cross Country Championships gold Guiyang 2015 U20 singles gold Guiyang 2015 U20 team gold Kampala 2017 U20 singles gold Kampala 2017 U20 team gold Aarhus 2019 team bronze Aarhus 2019 singles
last change: November 17, 2019

Letesenbet Gidey ( Amharic ለተሰንበት ግደይ ; born March 20, 1998 ) is an Ethiopian long-distance runner .

Athletic career

Letesenbet Gidey gained her first international experience at the 2015 World Cross Country Championships in Guiyang , where she won the gold medal both in the individual competition in the U20 age group and with the team. Then she finished fourth in the 3000 meter run at the Youth World Championships in Cali in 9: 04.64 minutes . Two years later she defended her two gold medals at the 2017 World Cross Country Championships in Kampala and qualified in the 5000-meter run for the World Championships in London , where she finished eleventh with 15: 04.99 minutes in the final . At the 2019 World Cross Country Championships in Aarhus , she won the bronze medal in the adult class in 36:24 minutes and secured the gold medal with the team. At the end of September she won the silver medal over 10,000 meters behind the Dutchman Sifan Hassan at the World Championships in Doha with a new personal best of 30: 21.23 minutes . In mid-November, Gidey set a new world record over 15 km at the Zevenheuvelenloop in Nijmegen . In 44:20 min she is the first woman to stay under 45 minutes and improved the previous mark of the Kenyan Joyciline Jepkosgei by more than a minute.

In 2019 , Gidey became the Ethiopian champion in the 10,000 meter run.

Personal bests

• 1500 meters: 4: 11.11 min, June 15, 2017 in Hérouville-Saint-Clair
• 3000 meters: 8: 20.27 min, June 30, 2019 in Palo Alto ( African record )
• 5000 meters: 14: 23.14 min, July 13, 2018 in Rabat
• 10,000 meters: 30: 21.23 min, September 28, 2019 in Doha
• 10 km road run: 33:55 min, May 19, 2019 in Bangalore
• 15 km road race: 44:20 min, November 17, 2019 in Nijmegen ( world best time )

Web links

Commons : Letesenbet Gidey  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Letesenbet Gidey in the database of World Athletics (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Celestine Karoney: Gidey cruises to second straight U20 women's title - IAAF World Cross Country Championships Kampala 2017 . IAAF. March 26, 2017. Retrieved June 8, 2019.
2. ↑ Bob Ramsak: Weekend road round-up: Gidey smashes 15km world best, Lonyangata and Melese win in Shanghai . World Athletics. November 17, 2019. Retrieved November 17, 2019.