Genzebe Dibaba
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Weight | 52 kg (115 lb)[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Country | Ethiopia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sport | Women's athletics | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Event(s) | 1500 metres, 3000 metres, 5000 metres | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Team | NN Running Team (2023–) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Coached by | Tolera Dinka | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Medal record
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Genzebe Dibaba Keneni (Oromo: Ganzabee Dibaabaa Qananii; Amharic: ገንዘቤ ዲባባ ቀነኒ; born 8 February 1991) is an Ethiopian middle- and long-distance runner. A 1,500 metres 2016 Rio Olympics silver medalist, she won a gold medal in this event and a bronze in the 5,000 metres at the 2015 World Championships. Genzebe is the current world record holder for the indoor events of the one mile, 3,000m and 5,000m.
Having competed at all World Athletics Championships between 2009 and 2017, Genzebe placed in the finals of all events in which she took part. She is a five-time World Indoor champion, winning the 1,500m in 2012, the 3,000m in 2014 and 2016, and securing the 1,500m/3,000m double in 2018. She was highly successful as a junior athlete. In 2008, at age 17, she won her first World Cross Country Championships under-20 title and took a silver medal in the 5,000m at the World U20 Championships. The next year, Genzebe added her second Cross Country U20 title, and in 2010, the World U20 Championships 5,000m gold. She won the 2015 Diamond League title. She was named Laureus Sportswoman of the Year for 2014,[2] and IAAF World Female Athlete of the Year in 2015.[3]
Genzebe comes from a sporting family of several Olympic medalists, which includes her sisters Tirunesh and Ejegayehu, and her aunt Derartu Tulu.
Background
Genzebe Dibaba is a member of the
Career
Genzebe won the junior women's title at both the 2008[5] and 2009 IAAF World Cross Country Championships[6] and finished fifth in the same event in 2007. She became the second junior woman ever to win two junior cross country championships in a row. She also competed in IAAF Golden League meetings, including the Reebok Grand Prix and the Oslo Bislett Games. At the 2008 Bislett Games, Genzebe recorded a personal best time of 15:02.41 in the 5000 metres, during the same race where her sister Tirunesh set a new world record.[7] She did the same a year later in the same race, improving her personal best by more than five seconds.
2009–2010
After winning the 5000 m at the Ethiopian Athletics Championships, she was included in the Ethiopian squad for the
She began her 2009–10 cross country campaign with a win at the
2011–2012
She was the runner-up at the
She began 2012 with the fifth fastest ever indoor 1500 m, winning the
2013–2014
Genzebe opened 2013 on grass, winning the 3 km competition at the
On 1 February 2014, in Karlsruhe, Germany, Genzebe ran 3:55.17 in the 1500 m indoor event, beating the previous indoor world record by over 3 seconds. This mark was the fastest 1500 m in the world, indoor or outdoor, since 1997.[19]
Five days later, she improved the world indoor record in the
With these records, Genzebe is one of only three athletes in history to break three world records in three different events within 15 days, joining Jesse Owens, who set three world records and tied another within 1 hour,[22] and Usain Bolt. She stands alone as the only one to do this feat in three different cities and meets, and in all individual events under FAT.[citation needed]
In summer
2015
During 2015 Genzebe changed shoe sponsor. In February in
Genzebe won the women's 5000 m at the 2015 Prefontaine Classic in Eugene, Oregon, in a then-personal best time of 14:19.76.[24] She then went on to win the 5000 m at the Diamond League Meet Areva in Paris on July 4 in a new personal best time of 14:15:41. This was her fifth 5000 metres run under 14:30. Only four days later, in Barcelona, she set a new African record for the 1500 m of 3:54.11 (video), virtually single-handedly running the fastest 1500 m in the world in 18 years[25] and the ninth fastest of all time. Six of the eight fastest times ahead of her occurred in two races at the 1993 Chinese National Games, where much of the running community believes the communist government was sponsoring a doping scheme in the days before serious drug testing was required. On 17 July 2015 in Monaco, Genzebe broke the 1500 m world record, which had previously been considered near-unbreakable, in a time of 3:50:07.[26]
At the World Championships in Beijing, she took the 1500 m title and claimed the bronze medal in the 5000 m event.
She was named the IAAF women's World Athlete of the Year for 2015.[27]
2016
In February 2016, Genzebe competed in Stockholm's Globen Galan meeting. She ran the indoor mile in 4 minutes and 13.31 seconds, breaking Doina Melinte's 26-year-old world record of 4:17.14, which had been set in 1990.[28] In April, she pulled out of the Dubai Athletics President's Cup 10,000 m Olympic qualifier race due to an injury in her left foot.[29] In a track meet in Barcelona on 30 June, she failed to finish a 5000 m race due to an injury. She was removed from the track in a wheelchair.[30]
At the 2016 Rio Olympics, Dibaba ran the women's 1500 m. She won her heat (one out of 3) in 4:10.61. In the semifinals (one out of 2) she was the fastest runner with 4.03.06. The final was won by Faith Kipyegon in a time of 4:08.92. Genzebe took the silver medal in a time of 4:10.27 and Jenny Simpson placed third with 4:10.53.[31]
2017
Genzebe broke the 2000 m indoor world record and also the absolute world record, because it lowered the outdoor mark as well, on 7 February 2017 in Sabadell (Spain). She ran the distance in 5:23.75, an improvement on the former indoor best by Gabriela Szabo from 1998 by 6 seconds. The outdoor world record was set by Sonia O'Sullivan with 5:25.36.[32][33]
An illness prevented her from running in her usual form at the
Since September she was coached by Hussein Shibo and Tolera Dinka.[35]
2018
At the 2018 IAAF World Indoor Championships in Birmingham, she won the 1500 m[36] and the 3000 m.[37]
2019
Genzebe won the Golden Gala 1500 m in Rome on 6 June in a time of 3:56.28. She went to Rabat on 16 June and took victory over the distance in 3:55.47.[38]
In the 1500 m Diamond League Final on 29 August in Zürich, Genzebe finished fourth in 4:00.86. The final was won by Sifan Hassan in 3:57.08, Konstanze Klosterhalfen was the runner up with 3:59.02 and Gabriela DeBues-Stafford placed third in 3:59.59.[39]
2020–2022
In her first race of any kind since August 2019, Genzebe won the delayed Valencia Half Marathon in December 2020 with a time of 65:18. It was the fastest half marathon debut by a woman in history at the time.[40]
On 16 October 2022, she debuted in the marathon at the Amsterdam Marathon, placing second behind Almaz Ayana with a time of 2:18:05, a performance which ranked her in the world all-time top 20.[41]
Achievements
All information taken from World Athletics profile.
Personal bests
Type | Event | Time | Date | Place | Notes |
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Outdoor track | 800 metres | 1:59.37 | 5 May 2017 | Doha, Qatar | |
1500 metres | 3:50.07 | 17 July 2015 | Monaco | NR | |
Mile | 4:14.30 | 6 September 2016 | Rovereto, Italy | NR | |
2000 metres | 5:27.50 | 17 June 2014 | Ostrava, Czech Republic | ||
3000 metres | 8:21.29 | 30 June 2019 | Palo Alto, CA, USA | ||
5000 metres | 14:15.41 | 4 July 2015 | Paris, France | ||
Indoor | 1000 metres | 2:33.06 | 24 February 2017 | Madrid, Spain | NR |
1500 metres | 3:55.17 | 1 February 2014 | Karlsruhe, Germany | ||
Mile | 4:13.31 | 17 February 2016 | Stockholm, Sweden | World record | |
2000 metres | 5:23.75 | 7 February 2017 | Sabadell, Spain | World best | |
3000 metres | 8:16.60 | 6 February 2014 | Stockholm, Sweden | World record | |
Two miles | 9:00.48 | 15 February 2014 | Birmingham, England | World best | |
5000 metres | 14:18.86 | 19 February 2015 | Stockholm, Sweden | World record | |
Road | Half marathon | 1:05:18 | 6 December 2020 | Valencia, Spain |
International competitions
Circuit wins and titles
- Diamond League Overall winner 5000 m: 2015[42]
- 2012 (1) 1500 m: Shanghai Diamond League (MR NR)
- 2013 (1) 5000 m: Shanghai
- 2014 (2) 5000 m: Rome Golden Gala, Monaco Herculis
- 2015 [4]: (3) 5000 m: Eugene Prefontaine Classic (MR), Oslo Bislett Games, Meeting de Paris (MR); (1) 1500 m: Monaco (DLR WR)
- 2016 (1) 3000 m: Lausanne Athletissima
- 2017 [2]: (1) 5000 m: Eugene; (1) One mile: Lausanne (MR)
- 2018 (1) 5000 m: Eugene
- 2019 (2) 1500 m: Rome, Rabat Meeting (MR)
References
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- IAAF. 30 March 2008. Retrieved 7 May 2016.
- ^ "Junior Women's Race Report – Edinburgh 2008". IAAF. 30 March 2008. Retrieved 7 May 2016.
- ^ "Genzebe keeps the Dibaba family at the top of the world – Amman 2009". IAAF. Retrieved 7 May 2016.
- ^ Golden League 2008 – Bislett Games 5000 Metres W Results Archived 2008-06-08 at the Wayback Machine. IAAF. 6 June 2008.
- IAAF. Retrieved 7 May 2016.
- ^ Hendrix, Ivo (15 February 2010). "Koech clocks World best in 2000m Steeplechase, G. Dibaba impresses in Gent". IAAF. Retrieved 7 May 2016.
- ^ Johnson, Len (28 March 2010). "Cherono sets the record straight – Women's Junior race report – Bydgoszcz 2010". IAAF. Retrieved 7 May 2016.
- ^ Morse, Parker (22 July 2010). "Women's 5000m final". IAAF. Archived from the original on 24 November 2010. Retrieved 7 November 2010.
- ^ Valiente, Emeterio (7 November 2010). "Medhin and Dibaba outclass World champions in Atapuerca". IAAF. Retrieved 7 May 2016.
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External links
- Genzebe Dibaba at World Athletics
- Genzebe Dibaba | At Home with the Ethiopian Athletics Star Trans World Sport profile