Tirunesh Dibaba biography
Tirunesh Dibaba, (born June 1, 1985, close to Bekoji, Arsi province, Ethiopia), Ethiopian distance runner who on the 2008 Beijing Olympics turned the primary girl to win gold in each the 5,000-metre and 10,000-metre races. She defended her gold medal title within the 10,000 metres on the 2012 London Olympics, turning into the primary girl to win the occasion at two consecutive Olympics.
Dibaba was impressed by a household of runners. Derartu Tulu, a cousin, had gained two Olympic gold medals within the 10,000 metres (in Barcelona in 1992 and in Sydney in 2000). It appeared apparent that when Dibaba’s sister Ejegayehu, three years her senior, took up aggressive operating in 1998, she would quickly observe. Dibaba moved to Addis Ababa in 2000 to reside with Ejegayehu and one other cousin, who was additionally a runner. She had deliberate to enroll at school however as an alternative joined the Corrections (Prisons Police) sports activities membership. Dibaba debuted internationally at age 15 on Ethiopia’s junior squad on the 2001 world cross-country championships, inserting fifth. She adopted with junior-level silver medals in cross-country and on the observe in 2002.
In 2003 Dibaba gained the world junior cross-country title, set a 5,000-metre junior world file (14 min 39.94 sec), and secured the gold within the 5,000 metres on the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) world observe and subject championships, turning into the youngest-ever world champion in her sport. Although she lowered her world junior 5,000-metre file to 14 min 30.88 sec in 2004, Dibaba took the bronze within the Athens Olympics that yr.
After setting a world indoor file within the 5,000-metres (14 min 32.93 sec), she gained each the long- and short-course world cross-country titles. At the observe and subject world championships, she turned the primary girl to win a distance double, main Ethiopian medal sweeps within the 10,000 metres and the 5,000 metres, operating sub-59-second final laps in each races.
She gained world cross-country titles in 2006 and 2008 and broke the 5,000-metre world indoor file (14 min 27.42 sec) in 2007, however within the latter yr she needed to summon a livid end to defend her 10,000-metre world title after she fell through the race. In October 2008 Dibaba married two-time males’s 10,000-metre Olympic silver medalist Sileshi Sihine. Injuries curtailed her actions throughout 2009–11. Several months after her triumphant return to the medals podium on the 2012 London Olympics—along with her gold within the 10,000 metres, she gained a bronze within the 5,000 metres—she made her half marathon debut within the United Kingdom. Dibaba gained one other gold medal within the 10,000-metre race on the 2013 world championships, and in 2014 she competed in her first marathon. At the Rio de Janeiro 2016 Olympic Games, she captured a bronze medal within the 10,000-metre race. The following yr she gained her first marathon, in Chicago.