Chemdesa and Habtamu win national half-marathon titles in Addis

19 August 2008 –Deresa Chemdesa and Atsede Habtamu won the men’s and women’s races at the national half-marathon championships staged in wet conditions on the Sululta road outside Addis Ababa on Sunday. Their winning times were 1:03:06 and 1:13:33 respectively...

Kenenisa Bekele breaks Olympic record at Beijing

17 August 2008 – Ethiopia’s Kenenisa Bekele thrived well at defending his Olympic title and the second Gold medal for his country at the Beijing 10,000m race earlier today finishing with 27 minutes, 1.17 seconds beating the record he had set four years ago...

Tirunesh Dibaba smashes Olympic record

16 August 2008 – Ethiopian Tirunesh Dibaba won the women’s 10k yesterday evening crossing the line in 29 minutes 54.66 seconds breaking the Olympic record that was held by her aunt Derartu Tulu, bringing in Ethiopia’s first gold at Beijing Olympics...

Ethiopians anticipate start of Olympic distance-running events

13 August 2008 – The news earlier this week that the sole Ethiopian boxing competitor had failed to make his weight ahead of his competition only heightened the sense of anticipation in Ethiopia for the start of the athletics programme at the Beijing Olympics...

Dibaba flies to Beijing seeking Olympic double

11 August 2008 – Ethiopia’s Tirunesh Dibaba, the reigning world 10,000m champion and Olympic 5,000m bronze medallist from the Athens Olympics, this evening flies to Beijing as part of the first wave of Ethiopian athletes heading for competition in Beijing. On Friday evening (10.45pm Beijing time) she will compete alongside compatriots Ejigayehu Dibaba and Mestawot Tufa in the women’s 10,000m in her quest to win two Olympic titles...

Ethiopian team all set to fly to China

1 August 2008 – The Ethiopian Athletic Federation has announced the wrapped up list of trip timetable for the 42 envoys that will represent the nation for the 29th Olympiad which commences next week in Beijing...

Junior athlete wins 10k as well as 5k running bare-foot

23 July 2008 – Yenenew Alamirew clocked 30:49.04 when winning the 10,000 meters and 14:25.54 when winning 5k along during the 8th Youth and Junior Athletics Championships at the Addis Ababa Stadium last week...

Meseret Defar wins 5000 meters a second short of world record in Sweden

23 July 2008 – Meseret Defar won yesterday’s Golden League women’s 5k race in Stockholm, Sweden in 14:12.88 time however falling one second short of compatriot Tirunesh Dibaba’s 14:11.15 record time which she had set in Bislett Games earlier in June this year...

Former Ethiopian won 1500m in Paris

20 July 2008 – Ethiopian Gelete Burka was not fortunate to champ in the 1500 meter AF Golden League meeting in Paris on Friday. Former Ethiopian now competing for Bahrain Maryam Yusuf Jamal rather took the lead and won under 4 minutes for the first time this season with a 3:59.99 vectoring the wheels till the last lap over other contenders including Ethiopian Gelete Burka who however finished seventh in 4:05.25...

Ethiopia wins 2 gold, finishes 5th overall at World Juniors

14 July 2008 – Ethiopia’s team of twenty athletes won a total of ten medals including two gold at the 12th edition of the IAAF World Junior Championships which ended in Bydgoszcz, Poland yesterday afternoon. Overall, the team placed 5th in the medals table, behind USA, Germany, Kenya and Russia with a tally of two gold, three silver and five bronze medals.