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Ethiopia ready to shake up Guiyang [supersport]
Team Ethiopia is confident of a better IAAF World Cross Championships in Guiyang, China on Saturday to improve on the junior men 8km individual title they won last time in Poland.
Their squad of 24 that is a mix of experience and newcomers is...
Fresh faced Ethiopia out to leave a mark - Capital FM Kenya
BY MUTWIRI MUTUOTA
GUIYANG, March 26- Kenya perennial rivals, Ethiopia, are determined to get a march on their rivals and other competitors on Saturday when the 41st IAAF World Cross Championships get underway here in Guiyang starting...
Ethiopia’s Negesse wins Tokyo Marathon [japantimes]
KYODO
Ethiopia’s Endeshaw Negesse held off world and Olympic champion Stephen Kiprotich of Uganda to win Sunday’s Tokyo Marathon, part of the six-race World Marathon Majors series.
The 26-year-old Negesse took the tape in 2 hours, 6 minutes...
DIBABA SETS WORLD INDOOR 5000M RECORD IN STOCKHOLM [IAAF]
Ethiopia’s Genzebe Dibaba ran the third world indoor record * of her career when she clocked 14:18:86 for 5000m at the XL-galan meeting in Stockholm, an IAAF Indoor Permit meeting, on Thursday (19).
Dibaba took more than five seconds off the...
BERHANU SURPRISES WHILE MERGIA MAKES MAGNIFICENT MARATHON COMEBACK IN DUBAI [IAAF]
Ethiopia’s Lemi Berhanu emerged as the unexpected champion at the 2015 Standard Chartered Dubai Marathon, crossing the line at the IAAF Gold Label Road Race in a world-leading time and big personal best of 2:05:28 on Friday (23)
It...
Mumbai Marathon: It’s Ethiopians Abera, Dinknesh’s day out [THE HINDU]
A host of Ethiopian marathon runners led by Tesfaye Abera and Dinknesh Mekash, rekindled memories of the legendary Ethiopian athlete Abebe Bikila who, running barefoot, captured the imagination of the world by winning the 1960 Rome Olympics...
DIBABA SUCCESSFULLY DEFENDS HER XIAMEN TITLE AS BOTH COURSE RECORDS FALL[IAAF]
Ethiopia’s Mare Dibaba won the Xiamen Marathon for the second year in succession, taking more than one-and-a-half minutes off the course record she set last year at the IAAF Gold Label Road Race, winning in 2:19:52 on Saturday (3).
For the...
Ethiopians Admasu and Ayalew win Brazil road race [AP]
AO PAULO (AP) – Ethiopia’s Dawit Admasu won the St. Silvester road race in Brazil on Wednesday, crossing the line a second ahead of Kenya’s Stanley Koech.
Admasu finished the 15-kilometer (9.3-mile) course through South America’s...