Yonas Kifle
Yonas Kifle (born November 5, 1977 in Adi Billai ) is an Eritrean long-distance runner .
So far, he has represented his country at three world championships and three Olympic Games. At the 1999 World Championships and the 2001 World Championships he failed in the semifinals of the 5000 meter run , at the 2000 Olympic Games he was eliminated in the semifinals of the 10,000 meter run , at the 2004 Games he finished 14th in the 10,000 m, and at the 2005 World Championships he finished eleventh over the same distance.
At the Cross Country World Championships he has been in the top ten three times (2002, 2004 and 2006). But its real strength is the road race . At the 2002 Half Marathon World Championships he was fourth, two years later he won bronze in the same competition, and at the 2007 Road Running World Championships he was fifth in 59:30 minutes. Shortly thereafter, he made his debut on the marathon route and improved Yared Asmerom's national record by almost eight minutes by finishing fifth in the Amsterdam Marathon with 2:07:34 h .
At the marathon of the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, he ran the rapid pace of the five-man leading group up to 35 kilometers, but then suffered a bad slump and fell back to 36th place by the end of the race. In 2012 he took part in the Olympic Games for the fourth time. He started the marathon again and finished 58th.
Kifle is an athlete ambassador for the development aid organization Right to Play .
Web links
- Yonas Kifle in the database of World Athletics (English)
- Athlete portrait on marathoninfo.free.fr
- Portrait at IAAF - Focus on Athletes ( Memento from May 27, 2009 in the Internet Archive ), October 12, 2007
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| SURNAME | Kifle, Yonas |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Eritrean long-distance runner |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 5th November 1977 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Adi Billai |