Mare Dibaba

Mare Dibaba
Mare Dibaba at the 2014 Boston Marathon
nation	Ethiopia
birthday	20th October 1989 (age 30)
place of birth	Shewa, Ethiopia
size	151 cm
Weight	38 kg
Career
discipline	Long distance running
Best performance	1:07:13 h ( half marathon ) 2:19:52 h ( marathon )
status	active
Medal table
Olympic games bronze 2016 Rio de Janeiro marathon  World championships gold 2015 Beijing marathon

Mare Dibaba (born October 20, 1989 in Shewa ) is an Ethiopian long-distance runner .

Career

In 2008 she was eighth in the Delhi Half Marathon and won the Peuerbach New Year's Eve run .

In 2009, she became a national of Azerbaijan . A start at the Junior European Championships was planned under the new name Mare İbrahimova ; In the run-up it turned out, however, that she was not born in 1991, as reported, but in 1989, which meant that her starting authorization was invalid. She finished sixth at the Delhi Half Marathon that year.

In early 2010, the change of nationality was revised and the athlete returned to her old name. In the RAK half marathon she set an Ethiopian record in second with 1:07:13 h, and in the Rome marathon she was third in 2:25:38 h on her debut over the 42.195 km distance. A fifth place followed in the Frankfurt Marathon in autumn .

In 2011 she was third in the RAK half marathon and the Los Angeles marathon and won the Yangzhou Jianzhen half marathon . She won gold at the Half Marathon of the Pan-African Games in Maputo . She finished second in the Toronto Waterfront Marathon and sixth in the Delhi Half Marathon.

At the beginning of the 2012 season, she finished third in the Dubai Marathon with a personal best of 2:19:52 h . She was also part of the Ethiopian team for the 2012 Summer Olympics . In London , Dibaba covered the Olympic marathon distance in 2: 28.48 hours. So she ranked 23rd in the final ranking. In 2014 she finished third in the 2014 Boston Marathon and second in the 2014 Chicago Marathon .

In 2015 she set her personal best of 2:19:52 h in Xiamen. At 2015 Boston Marathon she came second. On August 30, 2015, she won the marathon of the World Championships in Beijing in 2:27:35 h.

The following year she won the bronze medal at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro .

The 1.51 meter tall Dibaba, which has been trained by Haji Adoli since 2009, weighed in at a competition weight of 38 kg in 2012.

Best times

• 5000 m : 15: 42.83 min, May 30, 2009, Baku
• Half marathon : 1:07:13 h, February 19, 2010, Ra's al-Khaimah
• Marathon : 2:19:52 h, January 27, 2012, Dubai

Web links

Commons : Mare Dibaba  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Mare Dibaba in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Athlete portrait on marathoninfo.free.fr
• Profile on www.london2012.com , accessed August 13, 2012

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ( page no longer available , search in web archives: Passport puts Ibrahimova over-age at Euro Juniors )
2. ^ IAAF: Merga and Dibaba sweep for Ethiopia in Yangzhou ( Memento of April 29, 2011 in the Internet Archive ). April 25, 2011