Selemon Barega

Selemon Barega
Selemon Barega in Bydgoszcz 2016
Full name	Selemon Barega Shirtaga
nation	Ethiopia
birthday	20th January 2000 (age 20)
place of birth	Ethiopia
Career
discipline	Long distance running
status	active
Medal table
World championships 0 × 1 × 0 × Indoor world championships 0 × 1 × 0 × World Cross Country Championships 0 × 1 × 1 × U20 world championships 1 × 0 × 0 × U20 African Championships 1 × 0 × 0 × U18 world championships 1 × 0 × 0 ×
World championships silver Doha 2019 5000 m  Indoor world championships silver Birmingham 2018 3000 m  World Cross Country Championships gold Kampala 2017 U20 team bronze Aarhus 2019 team  Junior World Championships gold Bydgoszcz 2016 5000 m Junior African Championships gold Tlemcen 2017 5000 m  Youth World Championships gold Nairobi 2017 3000 m
last change: February 4, 2020

Selemon Barega Shirtaga ( Amharic ሰለሞን ባረጋ ; * January 20, 2000 ) is an Ethiopian long-distance runner .

Athletic career

Selemon Barega gained his first experience in international championships at the U20 World Championships 2016 in Bydgoszcz , where he won the gold medal in 13: 21.21 minutes. At the 2017 World Cross Country Championships in Kampala , he finished fifth in the U20 class in 23:03 minutes and secured the gold medal with the team. Then he won in 13: 51.43 min at the Junior African Championships in Tlemcen in the 5000-meter run and in 7: 47.16 min in the 3000-meter run at the Youth World Championships in Nairobi . He also qualified for the World Championships in London , where he finished fifth in the final with 13: 35.34 min . The following year he won the silver medal at the World Indoor Championships in Birmingham in 8: 15.59 minutes and only had to admit defeat to his compatriot Yomif Kejelcha . A big favorite for the U20 World Championships in Tampere , Finland , he had to be content with fourth place over 5000 meters after 13: 21.16 minutes. At the end of the season he improved the U20 world record of his compatriot Hagos Gebrhiwet to 12: 43.02 min at the Memorial Van Damme in Brussels and is now fourth on the all-time best list (as of June 2019).

At the 2019 World Cross Country Championships in Aarhus , he finished fifth in the adult class in 32:16 minutes and secured the bronze medal with the team behind Uganda and Kenya. At the World Championships in Doha he won the silver medal in the 5000 meter final behind his compatriot Muktar Edris in 12: 59.70 minutes .

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

Personal bests

• 3000 meters: 7: 32.17 min, June 13, 2019 in Oslo
  • 3000 meters (hall): 7: 33.19 min, February 19, 2020 in Liévin
• 2 miles : 8: 08.69 min, June 30, 2019 in Palo Alto
• 5000 meters: 12: 43.02 min, August 31, 2018 in Brussels ( U20 world record )
• 10,000 meters: 26: 49.46 min, July 17, 2019 in Hengelo

Web links

Commons : Selemon Barega  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Selemon Barega in the database of World Athletics (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Bob Ramsak: Barega clocks 12: 43.02 world U20 5000m record in Brussels - IAAF Diamond League ( English ) IAAF. August 31, 2018. Retrieved June 9, 2019.
2. ↑ Jakob Ingebrigtsen comes away empty-handed over 5,000 m . Sports show. September 30, 2019. Retrieved October 3, 2019.