Abeba Aregawi
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Nationality | Ethiopian Swedish (since June 2012) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Adigrat, Ethiopia | 5 July 1990||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Event(s) | 800 metres, 1500 metres | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Club | none | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Retired | 2018[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Abeba Aregawi Gebretsadik (
Biography
Abeba Aregawi was born in Adigrat, Ethiopia in the Tigray Region. She represented Ethiopia internationally until December 2012, after she became a naturalized Swedish citizen.[2][3][4] She represented the Stockholm-based club Hammarby IF to January 2016.[5]
Aregawi was married to an Ethiopian man with Swedish citizenship and lived in Stockholm from 2009 to 2012.[citation needed] She is now remarried to Yemane Tsegay and lives in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.[citation needed]
Athletic career
2009
Aregawi emerged as an
2010
She switched to the
2011
Aregawi had a strong indoor season in 2011, with four straight wins in
2012
She emerged as one of the world's top 1500 m runners on the
2013
Aregawi contested her first race representing Sweden at international level during the
At the World Championships in Moscow Aregawi won the gold medal at 1500 metres, Sweden's eighth gold medal since the first championships in 1983.[14]
2014
On 6 February, Aregawi won the 1500 m race at
Doping suspension
On February 29, 2016, the Swedish Athletics Federation stated that Aregawi had tested positive for the substance (meldonium) in January 2016.[15] She was provisionally suspended from competing the same day.[15] In July 2016, the Swedish Doping Commission lifted her suspension due to insufficient evidence on how long the drug - which was prohibited only January 2016 - takes to be excreted from the body.[16]
Aregawi was officially struck from the list of active athletes by the Swedish Athletics Association on 28 November 2018. [17]
Achievements
International competitions
Year | Competition | Venue | Position | Event | Time |
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Representing Ethiopia | |||||
2012 | Olympic Games | London, United Kingdom | 3rd | 1500 m | 4:11.03 |
Representing Sweden | |||||
2013 | European Indoor Championships | Gothenburg, Sweden | 1st | 1500 m | 4:04.47 |
World Championships | Moscow, Russia | 1st | 1500 m | 4:02:67 | |
2014 | World Indoor Championships | Sopot, Poland | 1st | 1500 m | 4:00.61 |
European Championships | Zurich , Switzerland
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2nd | 1500 m | 4:05.08 | |
2015 | World Championships | Beijing, China | 6th | 1500 m | 4:12.16 |
Circuit wins and titles
- 2013
- 2011
- PSD Bank Meeting, Düsseldorf
- Indoor Flanders Meeting, Ghent
- Birmingham Indoor Grand Prix, Birmingham
- XL Galan, Stockholm
- 2012
- Golden Gala, Rome
- Bislett Games, Oslo
- Weltklasse, Zürich
- Diamond League, WorldOverall winner: 1500 metres women
- 2013
- Adidas Grand Prix, New York City
- Golden Gala, Rome
- Fanny Blankers-Koen Games, Hengelo (800 m)
- British Grand Prix, Birmingham
- Athletissima, Lausanne
- Memorial Van Damme, Brussels
- Sweden-Finland International, Stockholm
- Diamond League, WorldOverall winner: 1500 metres women
- 2014
- XL Galan, Stockholm
- Shanghai Golden Grand Prix, Shanghai
- Adidas Grand Prix, New York City
- ETCH Super League, Braunschweig
Personal bests
Event | Time (m:s) | Venue | Competition | Date | Notes |
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800 metres | 1:59.20 | Hengelo, Netherlands | FBK Games | 8 June 2013 | Swedish record |
1500 metres (ETH) | 3:56.54 | Rome, Italy | Golden Gala | 31 May 2012 | Ethiopian record |
1500 metres (SWE) | 3:56.60 | Doha, Qatar | Athletic Super GP |
10 May 2013 | Swedish record |
1500 metres indoor | 3:57.91 | Stockholm, Sweden | XL Galan |
6 February 2014 | Swedish record, 3rd of all time |
References
- ^ "Abeba Aregawi har avslutat sin karriär". 28 November 2018.
- ^ http://www.svt.se/sport/friidrott/abeba-aregawi-sveriges-stora-guldhopp "Abeba Aregawi Sveriges stora guldhopp" (in Swedish) SVT. 15 August 2013
- ^ "Här blir hon historisk" (in Swedish) Aftonbladet. 16 August 2013.
- ^ "Aregawis debut nära världsrekordet" (in Swedish) Dagens Nyheter. 16 August 2013.
- ^ "Hammarby IF Friidrott avslutar samarbetet med Abeba Aregawi - Hammarby IF FI - Friidrott - IdrottOnline Klubb". Archived from the original on 2016-09-21. Retrieved 2016-08-08.
- IAAF. 3 May 2009. Archived 25 October 2012 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "African Championships 2009" World Junior Athletics History. 10 June 2012. Archived October 23, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Abeba Aregawi". Tilastopaja. 10 June 2012.[dead link]
- ^ "Swedish Runner Aregawi wishes to compete at the Rio". July 15, 2016.
- IAAF. 19 May 2012. Archived 20 May 2012 at the Wayback Machine
- IAAF. 31 May 2012 Archived 2 June 2012 at the Wayback Machine
- IAAF. 7 June 2012. Archived 10 June 2012 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "The reallocation of medals is a minefield". April 2017.
- IAAF. 15 August 2013.
- ^ a b SI Wire (29 February 2016). "World champion Abeba Aregawi tests positive for banned substance". Retrieved 29 February 2016.
- ^ O'Connor, Philip (14 July 2016). "Aregawi has doping ban lifted, hopes to make Olympics". Reuters.
- ^ "Försvunnen i tre år – nu avslutar hon karriären". 28 November 2018.