Berhane Adere
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Full name | Berhane Adere Debala | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Shewa, Ethiopia | 21 July 1973|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Country | Ethiopia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sport | Track and field | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Event | Long-distance running | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Berhane Adere Debala (
Berhane held the world indoor record for the 3,000 m, set in 2002, which was the first sub-8:30 mark run by a woman indoors and the first world indoor record in a distance event by an Ethiopian woman. She also held the world indoor record in the 5,000 m, set in 2004.[2]
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Career
Berhane held the African record for the 10,000 metres in a time of 30:04.18, set at the 2003 World Championships, where she won gold. Her record was broken at the 2008 Beijing Olympics by Tirunesh Dibaba, who became the first African woman to run under 30 minutes in the event.[citation needed]
She won the 2006 Chicago Marathon with a personal best time of 2:20:42. She won the Chicago Marathon again in 2007[3] and the Dubai Marathon on 18 January 2008.[4] Berhane also claimed victory in the 2007 Ras Al Khaimah Half Marathon.[1]
She was the top female finisher in the 2010
Achievements
International competitions
Personal bests
- 3000 metres – 8:25.62 (Zürich 2001)
- 3000 metres indoor – 8:29.15 (Stuttgart 2002)
- 5000 metres – 14:29.32 (Oslo 2003)
- 5000 metres indoor – 14:39.29 (Stuttgart 2004)
- 10,000 metres – 30:04.18 (Paris-Saint-Denis 2003)
- Road
- 5 kilometres – 14:54 (Carlsbad, CA 2003)
- 10 kilometres – 31:07 (Manchester 2006)
- Half marathon – 1:07:52 (New Orleans, LA 2010)
- Marathon – 2:20:42 (Chicago, IL 2006)
References
- ^ a b "Berhane ADERE – Athlete Profile". World Athletics. Retrieved 1 January 2021.
- ^ a b Turnbull, Simon (3 February 2023). "Remembering the late-blooming Adere's remarkable indoor debut". World Athletics. Retrieved 3 February 2023.
- ^ Litsky, Frank (8 October 2007). "A Hot Day in Chicago Yields Two Close Finishes". The New York Times.
- IAAF. Retrieved 29 April 2016.
- ^ Cruz, Dan (1 March 2010). "Adere clocks 1:07:52, Lel beats Wanjiru at New Orleans Half Marathon". IAAF. Retrieved 29 April 2016.
- ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 7 August 2017. Retrieved 7 August 2017.
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: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ Butcher, Michael (19 September 2010). "Gebrselassie and Adere take Great North Run titles". IAAF. Archived from the original on 21 September 2010. Retrieved 19 September 2010.
- ^ Martin, David (21 October 2012). "Kogo defeats Kuma in Birmingham thriller - REPORT". IAAF. Retrieved 10 February 2013.
External links
- Berhane Adere at World Athletics
- Berhane Adere in the half marathon in Rotterdam 2007
- Cheering Adere From The Back - From Ethiopian Running Blog