Bolota Asmerom

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Bolota Asmerom (born 12 October 1978)

long-distance runner who competed for Eritrea
before gaining a US visa in 2002. He attended McAteer High School in San Francisco and graduated in 1995. His personal-record for the 5k in high school cross country was 15:59. He placed 6th in CIF cross-country championships Division 3 in his senior year. After High school, he went on to attend the University of California. Bolota has a brother, Yonathan, who was also on The University of California Track and Field Team.

Eritrea

In 2000, while studying at the University of California[2] he represent Eritrea at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, he entered the 5000 metres where he finished 16th in his heat so didn't qualify for the final.[3]

United States

In May 2002 he gained US nationality, he entered for the

UC Berkeley
, and now lives in Oakland, CA.

Asmerom spent one semester studying counseling psychology at the University of San Francisco. He is currently a coach.

References

  1. ^ "Bolota Asmerom". negativesplit.net. Negative Split Pictures. Retrieved 14 June 2015.
  2. ^ "Bolota Asmerom Profile". calbears.com. Cal Athletics. Archived from the original on 9 April 2015. Retrieved 14 June 2015.
  3. ^ "Bolota Asmerom Bio, Stats, and Results". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Archived from the original on 2020-04-18. Retrieved 2018-04-09.
  4. ^ "Asmerom still running an Olympic dream". insidebayarea.com. Inside Bay Area. Retrieved 14 June 2015.
  5. ^ "Olympic Trials Profile". bayareatrackclub.com. Bay Area Track Club. Retrieved 14 June 2015.
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