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Diribe Welteji’s road mile world record at Riga 23 ratified
Addis Ababa, December 7, 2023 (FBC) - World records set in the road mile by Diribe Welteji and Hobbs Kessler at the World Athletics Road Running Championships Riga 23 have now been ratified.
Ethiopia’s Welteji headed to the Latvian capital off the back of taking world 1500m silver in Budapest. World record-holder and world champion Faith…
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World champion Gudaf Tsegay leads next month’s Astana Indoor Meet entry list
Addis Ababa, December 7, 2023 (FBC) – World champions Gudaf Tsegay and Mondo Duplantis are the first star athletes confirmed for the ‘Astana Indoor Meet for Amin Tuyakov Prizes’ – the first World Athletics Indoor Tour Gold meeting of 2024 –…
Ethiopian athletes conquer Valencia Marathon 2023
Addis Ababa, December 3, 2023 (FBC) - Ethiopian athletes dominated the 2023 Valencia marathon in both men and women races this morning.
In the men's category, athlete Sisay Lemma storms to 2:01:48 to become the 4th fastest man in…
Kenenisa Bekele confirms his participation in Valencia Marathon on Sunday
Addis Ababa, November 29, 2023 (FBC) - Ethiopian athletics legend Kenenisa Bekele announced today that he will participate in the Valencia Marathon 2023 on Sunday 3 December 2023.
It is learned that the iconic long and middle distance…
Siranesh Yirga of Ethiopia wins the 2023 Shanghai Marathon
Addis Ababa, November 26, 2023 (FBC) – Athlete Siranesh Yirga Dagne of Ethiopia has won the 2023 Shanghai Marathon, a World Athletics Platinum Label road race, earlier today.
Athlete Siranesh clocked 2:21:28 to become the winner of this…
Kinde Atanaw, Tadu Teshome lead Ethiopian charge at Shanghai Marathon on Sunday
Addis Ababa, November 25, 2023 (FBC) – Ethiopia’s Kinde Atanaw and Tadu Teshome are strong favorites for success at the Shanghai Marathon in the men’s and women’s race, respectively, on Sunday 26 November.
Taking into account the strong…
Ethiopia’s Gudaf Tsegay 5000m world record ratified by World Athletics
Addis Ababa, November 23, 2023 (FBC) – The world athletics sport governing body today confirmed that the women’s 5000m world record, 14:00.21, set by Gudaf Tsegay of Ethiopia at the Prefontaine Classic in September 2023 has been…