Tsegay Kebede

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Tsegay Kebede athletics

Tsegay Kebede
Tsegay Kebede
at the 2009 London Marathon

nation EthiopiaEthiopia Ethiopia
birthday 15th January 1987 (age 33)
place of birth Ethiopia
Career
Medal table
Olympic games 0 × gold 0 × silver 1 × bronze
World championships 0 × gold 0 × silver 1 × bronze
Olympic rings Olympic games
bronze Beijing 2008 marathon
IAAF logo World championships
bronze Berlin 2009 marathon
last change: April 15, 2019

Tsegay Kebede (also: Tsegaye Kebede ; born January 15, 1987 ) is an Ethiopian marathon runner .

Career

As the fifth of 13 siblings in the family of a carpet maker, he grew up in the city of Gerar Ber (40 km north of Addis Ababa ) in abject poverty and had to work as a cattle keeper to help support the family and pay for the school. He started running in 1995 but had to hide his training from his father, who thought it was a waste of time.

In 2006, the coach and manager Getaneh Tessema noticed him at a local race. When he was invited to his training group, he was only beaten in a test run by their star Deriba Merga .

The following year, Tsegay Kebede had made such progress that he wanted to take part in international races. However, the Ethiopian Athletics Federation refused to help him obtain a visa because he was not part of an established athletics club. Instead, his coach let him start at the Abebe Bikila International Marathon in Addis Ababa. Although he had just got away with his life in a bus accident shortly before, he set a course record of 2:15:34 h for the course, which is well over 2000 m above sea level.

His visa problems were over and so he started the Amsterdam Marathon in autumn . He managed to keep up with the fast top group for a long time, and the time of 2:08:16 h, which he achieved in eighth place, was the second fastest of an Ethiopian in 2007 after Haile Gebrselassie's world record run .

Tsegay Kebede at the Amsterdam Marathon 2007, behind him the Dutchman Kamiel Maase

At the beginning of the following season he finished second in the RAK half marathon in 59:35  minutes . His next big success was the victory in the Paris Marathon 2008 with a time of 2:06:40  h , with which he secured the nomination for the Olympic Games in Beijing . At the World 10K Bangalore he was third.

In the second half of the Olympic marathon, he was one minute behind the top five. Up to km 40 he worked his way up to fourth place. On the lap of the stadium he overtook his compatriot and training partner Deriba Merga and won the bronze medal in 2:10:00 h behind Samuel Kamau Wanjiru (KEN) and Jaouad Gharib (MAR).

At the end of the season, he won the Fukuoka Marathon in December in a personal best of 2:06:10 h, which not only improved the course record by 29 seconds, but also set the fastest time on Japanese soil.

At the London Marathon 2009, Tsegay Kebede again set a personal best of 2:05:20 hours, after a thrilling finish came second behind Samuel Kamau Wanjiru and this time pushed Jaouad Gharib into third place.

At the marathon of the World Athletics Championships in Berlin , he belonged to the top group of eight that had formed at 20 km. After falling five kilometers further behind, he managed to move up to the bronze rank behind the Kenyans Abel Kirui and Emmanuel Kipchirchir Mutai in the final kilometers . In December, Tsegay Kebede defended his title at the Fukuoka Marathon and improved the course record to 2:05:18.

In 2010, all medal winners from the 2008 Olympic Games and the 2009 World Championships competed in the London Marathon. At 32 km, Tsegay Kebede took the lead and ran a lead of over a minute to the finish. With 2:05:19 h, he stayed just above his personal and course record. In the fall, he was relegated to second place in a gripping duel by Wanjiru at the Chicago Marathon .

In 2011 he finished fifth in London and third in the New York City Marathon . His third place in London 2012 was not enough to re-qualify for the Olympic Games. At the Chicago Marathon 2012 he was the first Ethiopian to win in 2:04:38 h with a personal best and a new course record. In 2013 he won the London Marathon for the second time after 2010 in 2:06:04 h.

Personal bests

Web links

Commons : Tsegay Kebede  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ IAAF: Kebede takes Paris Marathon win in 2:06:40 ( Memento from April 9, 2008 in the Internet Archive ). April 6, 2008
  2. ^ IAAF: Kebede cruises 2:06:10 course record in Fukuoka ( Memento of December 8, 2008 in the Internet Archive ). December 7, 2008
  3. ^ IAAF: Wanjiru takes Lel's course record while Mikitenko wins again in London ( Memento of May 3, 2009 in the Internet Archive ). April 26, 2009
  4. ↑ IAAF: 2:05:18 h course record and personal best for Kebede in Fukuoka ( Memento of December 13, 2009 in the Internet Archive ). December 6, 2009
  5. ^ IAAF: Commanding victories for Kebede and Shobukhova - London Marathon report ( Memento of April 28, 2010 in the Internet Archive ). April 25, 2010
  6. ↑ LetsRun.com: Heavyweights Throw Down In BoA Chicago - Wanjiru Wins Epic Duel With Kebede . October 10, 2010 (with video)
  7. ↑ Athletics - Chicago Marathon: Ethiopians dominate Chicago Marathon zeit.de, October 7, 2012
  8. ↑ Kebede and Jeptoo shine in the London sun ( Memento of the original from May 1, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Virgin London Official Marathon Website, accessed May 29, 2013 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / lrn.london-marathon.com
personal data
SURNAME Kebede, Tsegay
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kebede, Tsegaye
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Ethiopian long distance runner
DATE OF BIRTH January 15, 1987