Meraf Bahta

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Meraf Bahta athletics

Podium 5000m women Zurich 2014.jpg
Meraf Bahta (center) at the 2014 European Championships

nation SwedenSweden Sweden
birthday 24th August 1989 (age 31)
place of birth Dekishahay ,  Eritrea
Career
discipline Medium and long distance running
Best performance 1500 m: 4: 00.59 min
5000 m: 14: 49.95 minSport records icon NR.svg
society Hall IF
Trainer Ulf Björklund
National squad since 2014
status active
Medal table
European championships 1 × gold 1 × silver 1 × bronze
Cross Country World Championship 0 × gold 1 × silver 0 × bronze
Cross-country championships 0 × gold 1 × silver 1 × bronze
EAA logo European championships
gold Zurich 2014 5000 m
silver Amsterdam 2016 5000 m
IAAF logo World Cross Country Championships
silver Mombasa 2007 Team (Juniors)
EAA logo European Cross Country Championships
bronze Samokov 2014 singles
silver Šamorín 2017 singles
last change: August 8, 2018

Meraf Bahta Ogbagaber (born August 24, 1989 in Dekishahay ) is a Swedish athlete of Eritrean origin.

Athletic career

Born in Eritrea, Bahta represented her home country internationally for the first time at the 2005 World Cross Country Championships in Saint-Galmier, where she took 32nd place in the junior women's race. The following year she was twelfth at the World Cross Country Championships in Fukuoka and fifth in the 1500-meter run at the Junior World Championships in Beijing . She achieved her best result at the Cross Country World Championships in Mombasa in 2007 , when she reached sixth place in the junior women's race and led the Eritrean team to the silver medal in the team standings. In the same year she was seventh in the 5000-meter run and ninth in the 1500 meters at the Pan-African Games in Algiers . At the World Cross Country Championships in Edinburgh in 2008 , she finished 43rd in the women's race. When she received a draft notice for military service in December 2008, she used a stay in a training camp in Spain to flee to Sweden, where she was granted permanent residence in 2010. There she moved to Kode and joined the Hälle IF under coach Ulf Björklund.

In 2011 Bahta became Swedish champion in the 5000 meter run. In July 2013, her best performance over 1500 meters increased to 4: 05.11 minutes at a track and field meeting in Heusden-Zolder, Belgium, and thus undercut the international qualification standard for the World Championships in Moscow . The Migrationsverket thereupon promised to accelerate their naturalization process.

On January 14, 2014, Bahta received Swedish citizenship and has been eligible to compete internationally for Sweden since January 29, 2014. In May she set a new Swedish record in the 5,000-meter run at the Palo Alto with 14: 59.49 minutes. At the European Championships in Zurich , she won the gold medal over the same distance in 15: 31.39 minutes. She won the silver medal at the 2016 European Championships in Amsterdam .

At the 2017 European Athletics Indoor Championships , she achieved fourth place in the final over 1500 meters. At the Golden Gala in Rome 2017, she improved her 1500 meter record to 4: 00.59 min.

At the European Championships in Berlin in 2018 , she won the bronze medal over 10,000 m. She was allowed to start, although she had not been found for doping tests three times before and a case against her was pending. Only at the end of June 2019 was it blocked by the Swedish Association for one year retrospectively from September 1, 2018. In August 2020, the independent athletes' commission canceled their results between May 24, 2018 and August 31, 2018 and thus also the medal of the European Championships in Berlin.

Web links

Commons : Meraf Bahta  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ March 2007 AIMS Results ( English ) Association of International Marathons and Distance Races. Retrieved August 24, 2014.
  2. ↑ a b Meraf Bahta har hittat harmonin igen ( Swedish ) Kungälvs-Posten. June 10, 2011. Archived from the original on August 26, 2014. Retrieved on August 24, 2014.
  3. ↑ a b Nu är alla papper klara! ( Swedish ) friidrott.se. January 30, 2014. Retrieved August 24, 2014.
  4. ↑ Bahta får inte bli svensk ( Swedish ) Dagens Nyheter. July 25, 2013. Retrieved August 24, 2014.
  5. ↑ Se Meraf's record break! ( Swedish ) friidrott.se. May 8, 2014. Retrieved August 24, 2014.
  6. ↑ European Athletics Indoor Championships Belgrade (Serbia) 3-5 March 2017 1500m Women Final ( Memento from March 17, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
  7. ↑ EM bronze for Alina Reh because of suspected doping?
  8. ↑ European Championship third banned by the Swedish federation for one year
  9. ↑ LATEST SANCTIONS FOR DOPING AND NON-DOPING VIOLATIONS AUGUST 2020
personal data
SURNAME Bahta, Meraf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bahta Ogbagaber, Meraf (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish long distance runner
DATE OF BIRTH August 24, 1989
PLACE OF BIRTH Dekishahay