Shitaye Eshete

Shitaye Eshete
Shitaye Eshete in Rio de Janeiro 2016
Full name	Shitaye Eshete Habtegebrel
nation	Bahrain Ethiopia
birthday	21st May 1990 (age 30)
place of birth	Ethiopia
size	161 cm
Weight	50 kg
Career
discipline	Long distance running
National squad	since 2009
status	active
Medal table
Asian Games 0 × 0 × 1 × Asian Championships 3 × 1 × 0 × Indoor Asian Championships 1 × 0 × 0 ×
Asian Games bronze Guangzhou 2010 10,000 m Asian Championships gold Kobe 2011 10,000 m gold Pune 2013 10,000 m silver Pune 2013 5000 m gold Doha 2019 10,000 m Indoor Asian Championships gold Hangzhou 2012 3000 m
last change: January 26, 2020

Shitaye Eshete Habtegebrel (born May 21, 1990 ) is a Bahraini long-distance runner of Ethiopian origin who has been eligible to compete in Bahrain since 2009.

Career

Shitaye Eshete gained her first international experience at the 2009 Arab Championships in Damascus , where she won the silver medal in the 5000 meter run . Then she finished sixth at the Asian Championships in Guangzhou in 16: 24.91 minutes and did not take part in the 1,500 meter run for a short time. In March 2010 she was eleventh at the World Cross Country Championships in Bydgoszcz, Poland and sixth at the Athletics Continental Cup in Split . In November she won the bronze medal at the Asian Games in Guangzhou in 31: 53.27 minutes in the 10,000 meter run behind the two Indian women Preeja Sreedharan and Kavita Raut . In the following year she finished twelfth at the Cross Country World Championships in Valencia and won the military world games in Rio de Janeiro over 5000 meters and the Asian Games in Kobe over 10,000 meters. So she qualified for the World Championships in Daegu , where she finished sixth in 31: 21.57 min. Then she was second over 10,000 m and third over 5000 m at the Pan-Arab Games . In 2012 she won the Asian Indoor Championships in Hangzhou over 3000 meters and was fifth in the World Indoor Championships in Istanbul in 8: 51.88 minutes. During the outdoor season, she qualified for the Olympic Games in London , where she Sixth about 10,000 meters and tenth in the 5000 meter race .

In 2013 Eshete narrowly missed a medal in fourth at the World Cross Country Championships in Bydgoszcz and again won the 10,000 meter title and silver over 5000 meter at the Asian Championships in Pune behind Betlhem Desalegn from the United Arab Emirates. Over 10,000 meters she also took part in the World Championships in Moscow and was also sixth there. At the end of September she finally won the Islamic Solidarity Games and then took a year off. In 2015 she won thirds at the Arab Championships in Manama in the 5000 and 10,000 meters and was second at the Ústi nad Lábem half marathon in 1:10:14 h. In 2016, she finished sixth in the Dubai Marathon with a time of 2:25:36 h and qualified for the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro , where she was unable to finish her race .

In 2017 she won the Trento half marathon and came second in the Saitama marathon. At the Islamic Solidarity Games in Baku she reached fourth place over 10,000 meters and also qualified for the World Championships in London, where she finished twelfth in 31: 38.66 minutes . In 2018 she was tenth in the Half Marathon World Championships in Valencia in 1:08:25 h. In April, the 27-year-old won the Hamburg Marathon after 2:24:51 hours and a new personal best . At the end of August she was fifth in the 10,000-meter run at the Asian Games in Jakarta in 32: 30.24 minutes. At the end of the season she finished second in the Saitama Marathon in 2:25:39 h in December .

In 2019 Eshete took part in the World Cross Country Championships in Aarhus and came 19th in the individual ranking. A good three weeks later she won the Asian Championships in Doha over 10,000 meters in 31: 15.62 minutes and thus secured her third title after 2011 and 2013. At the end of September she took part in the marathon at the World Championships in Doha and was able to run there don't quit.

Personal bests

• 1500 meters: 4: 16.30 min, June 11, 2013 in Bellinzona
  • 3000 meters (hall): 8: 49.27 min, February 19, 2012 in Hangzhou
• 5000 meters: 15: 03.13 min, June 8, 2013 in Hengelo
• 10,000 meters: 30: 47.25 min, August 3, 2012 in London ( Bahraini record )
• Half marathon: 1:08:25 h, March 24, 2018 in Valencia
• Marathon: 2:21:33 h, October 27, 2019 in Ljubljana

Web links

Commons : Shitaye Eshete  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Shitaye Eshete in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Shitaye Eshete in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Athletics - Pflieger runs EM standard at Hamburg Marathon (April 29, 2018)
2. ↑ Solomon Deksisa (2:06:34) And Shitaye Eshete (2:24:51) Triumph At The Hamburg Marathon (April 29, 2018)
3. ↑ Bob Ramsak: Bahrain and China continue their dominance at Asian Championships in Doha ( English ) IAAF. April 23, 2019. Retrieved April 28, 2019.