Tejitu Daba

Tejitu Daba at the 2013 Cross Country World Championships

Tejitu Daba (born August 20, 1991 ) is a Bahraini long-distance runner of Ethiopian origin.

At the Asian Athletics Championships in 2009, she won silver in the 5000 m and was fourth in the 10,000 m .

In 2010 she was fifth over 3000 m at the Athletics Continental Cup in Split and seventh over 10,000 m at the Asian Games in Guangzhou .

In 2011 she finished 27th at the World Cross Country Championships in Punta Umbría . She won over 5000 m at the Asian Championships and was ninth at the World Athletics Championships in Daegu .

In 2012, she won bronze over 3000 m at the Asian Indoor Athletics Championships and was eliminated from the World Indoor Athletics Championships in Istanbul in the preliminary stages. At the Olympic Games in London she was twelfth over 5000 m.

The following year she was eighth at the 2013 World Cross Country Championships in Bydgoszcz and won bronze with the Bahraini team. Over 5000 m, a bronze medal at the Asian Championships was followed by an eleventh place at the World Championships in Moscow .

In 2014 she was seventh over 5000 m at the Continental Cup in Marrakech and did not finish at the Asian Games in Incheon over 10,000 m.

Personal bests

3000 m: 8: 48.37 min, June 12, 2013, Nijmegen
- Hall: 8: 53.75 min, February 19, 2012, Hangzhou
5000 m: 15: 05.59 min, August 7, 2012, London
10,000 m: 32: 21.29 min, November 21, 2010, Guangzhou

personal data
SURNAME	Daba, Tejitu
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Bahraini long distance runner of Ethiopian origin
DATE OF BIRTH	August 20, 1991