Ejegayehu Dibaba

Ejegayehu Dibaba

Medal record
Women's athletics
Competitor for  Ethiopia
Olympic Games
	2004 Athens	10,000 m
World Championships
	2005 Helsinki	5000 m
	2005 Helsinki	10,000 m

Ejegayehu Dibaba Keneni (Amharic: እጅጋዬሁ ዲባባ;Afaan Oromo: Ijigaayahuu Dibaabaa; born 21 March 1982 in Bekoji) is an Ethiopian long-distance runner.

She is a member of the Oromo ethnic group from the high-altitude Arsi Zone of the Oromia Region. She is the third child of six, her younger sisters Tirunesh and Genzebe are also international long distance athletes, and brother Dejene is marked as a future star. Like her sister Tirunesh, her cousin Derartu Tulu is a double Olympic gold medalist (1992 and 2000).

Ejegayehu beat her cousin to take the silver medal in the 10,000 metres at the 2004 Summer Olympics, her two bronze medals at the IAAF World Championships in Athletics were behind her sister winning the gold in the final sprint.

She took part in a 7 km race at the Memorial Peppe Greco in September 2010 and took second place behind Sylvia Kibet.^[1]

Ejegayehu made her debut over the marathon distance at the 2011 Chicago Marathon and, even though she was well-beaten by Liliya Shobukhova (who became the second fastest woman ever), she eventually was ruled the winner after Shobukhova was retroactively disqualified for doping. Her win was the third fastest marathon debut with her time of 2:22:09 hours.^[2]

Ejegayehu Dibaba is 1.60 m tall and weighs 46 kg.

International competitions

Year	Competition	Venue	Position	Event
2002	African Championships	Radès, Tunisia	3rd	5000 m
2003	World Cross Country Championships	Lausanne, Switzerland	9th	Short race
			2nd	Team competition
	World Championships	Paris, France	9th	10,000 m
	Afro-Asian Games	Hyderabad, India	1st	10,000 m
2004	World Cross Country Championships	Lausanne, Switzerland	10th	Short race
			1st	Team competition
			2nd	Long race
			1st	Team competition
	Olympic Games	Athens, Greece	2nd	10,000 m
	World Athletics Final	Monte Carlo, Monaco	3rd	5000 m
2005	World Cross Country Championships	St Etienne, France	14th	Short race
	World Championships	Helsinki, Finland	3rd	5000 m
			3rd	10,000 m
2006	World Cross Country Championships	Fukuoka, Japan	14th	Long race
	World Athletics Final	Stuttgart, Germany	4th	5000 m
2007	World Championships	Osaka, Japan	7th	10,000 m
2008	Olympic Games	Beijing, China	14th	10,000 m

Personal bests

• 3000 metres - 8:35.94 min (2006)
• 5000 metres - 14:32.74 min (2004)
• 10,000 metres - 30:18.39 min (2005)
• Half marathon - 1:16:40 hrs (2001)
• Marathon - 2:22:09 hrs (2011)

References

1. Zorzi, Alberto (2010-09-27). Soi and Kibet take victories in Scili. IAAF. Retrieved on 2010-09-28.
2. Ferstle, Jim (2011-10-09).Mosop and Shobukova scorch to Chicago titles - UPDATED. IAAF. Retrieved on 2011-10-16.

• Ejegayehu Dibaba profile at IAAF