Melat Yisak Kejeta

Melat Yisak Kejeta
Melat Yisak Kejeta (2017)
nation	Germany Ethiopia
birthday	27th September 1992 (age 27)
place of birth	Ethiopia
Career
society	LG Eintracht Frankfurt (until 2015) PSV Grün-Weiß Kassel (2016–2018) running team Kassel (since 2019)
Trainer	Winfried Aufenanger , Patrick Sang
Medal table
German championships 1 × 0 × 0 ×
German championships gold Hamburg 2016 10 km road run
last change: November 19, 2019

Melat Yisak Kejeta (born September 27, 1992 ) is a German long-distance runner of Ethiopian origin.

Career

Melat Yisak Kejeta for several years living in Germany and was in 2016 at the Hamburg Alster German 10K champion .

Kejeta first attracted attention in 2012 when she came third in the Humarathon half marathon between Ivry-sur-Seine and Vitry-sur-Seine in 1:10:27 h behind the two Kenyans Cynthia Jerotich Limo and Gladys Kipsoi. In 2013 she won the Frankfurt New Year's Eve run .

In spring 2017, Kejeta finished third at the CPC Loop Den Haag in 1:12:30 h and fourth in the Berlin half marathon with 1:11:00 h, each as the fastest time of a runner for a German club.

Kejeta was denied 2017 due to a new regulation of the German Athletics Association (DLV) to defend her title as German champion without German citizenship . Until 2016, only a German starting pass and one year permanent residence in the DLV area were required to participate in the championship. In March 2019, Kejeta received German citizenship after passing the naturalization test . As a top athlete of interest to the national association, this was able to happen a year earlier than officially planned after the DLV made the necessary recommendation and the responsible Ministry of the Interior and for Sports and the German Olympic Sports Confederation also approved. In the Berlin Marathon , she finished sixth in 2:23:57 h and thus clearly undercut the Olympic qualification standard of 2:29:30 h. At the same time, this was the fastest marathon debut of a German runner.

Kejeta started for LG Eintracht Frankfurt until the end of 2015 , after which she was looked after by Winfried Aufenanger at PSV Grün-Weiß Kassel . For the 2019 season, she switched to the Kassel running team, newly founded by Aufenanger .

Personal best

• 5000 m : 16: 06.43 min, May 25, 2016, Koblenz
• 5 km road run : 15:49 min, December 31, 2017, Trier
• 10 km road race: 31:41 min, March 25, 2018, Venlo (intermediate time)
• Half marathon : 1:08:41 h, March 25, 2018, Venlo
• Marathon : 2:23:57 h, September 29, 2019, Berlin

Personal achievements

For more results see athlete portrait ARRS (Association of Road Racing Statisticians)

Web links

• Melat Yisak Kejeta in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Melat Yisak Kejeta in the database of European Athletics (English)
• Performance profile with the Association of Road Racing Statisticians

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Topveld ( Memento from May 8, 2019 on WebCite ). In: venloop.nl (Dutch).
2. ↑ Results Humarathon International
3. ↑ New star at the New Year's Eve run ( Memento from September 4, 2017 in the Internet Archive ). In: Frankfurter Neue Presse . December 30, 2013
4. ↑ Kenyaan Yegon wint halve marathon CPC Loop . In: Algemeen Dagblad . March 12, 2017
5. ↑ Wilfried Raatz: German 10 km champion Melat Kejeta finishes fourth in Berlin - and is still not the best German runner in the 37th Berlin Half Marathon In: German Road Races . 5th April 2017.
6. ↑ Exclusion instead of integration (2) - Melat Yisak Kejeta becomes German 10 km champion and, according to the current DLV reading, has been excluded since this year. In: germanroadraces.de. April 22, 2017. Retrieved March 20, 2019 . 
7. ↑ Melat in luck: Olympia now big goal. In: kassel-marathon.de. Retrieved March 20, 2019 . 
8. ↑ Pamela Lechner, Jörg Wenig: Melat Kejeta dreams of a marathon time of less than 2:20 hours. In: Leichtathletik.de. October 17, 2019, accessed October 20, 2019 . 
9. ↑ 40 new additions to Aufenanger's running team in Kassel. In: hna.de. November 19, 2018, accessed December 18, 2018 .