Sport
Senbere Teferi breaks the world 5Km record in Herzogenaurach
Addis Ababa, September 12, 2021 (FBC) - Ethiopian athlete Senbere Tefere broke the world 5 kilo meter record at the adizero Road To Records event in Herzogenaurach on Sunday.
Senbere, contesting the final race of the day, ensured the event ended on a high as she smashed the world 5km record with 14:29, winning by 25 seconds from Ethiopian…
Read More...
Ethiopia Beats Zimbabwe with 1-0 in World Cup Qualifiers
Addis Ababa, September 7, 2021 (FBC) – Ethiopia gave their 2022 World Cup qualification hopes a major boost with a 1-0 home win over Group G rivals Zimbabwe at the Bahir Dar Stadium on Tuesday afternoon.
The result – secured by an…
Ethiopia’s Yalemzerf Yehualaw breaks half marathon world record
Addis Ababa, August 29, 2021 (FBC) - Ethiopian Yalemzerf Yehualaw broke the half marathon world record in a time of 63min 43sec in the Antrim Coast Half Marathon.
Yalemzerf Yehualaw, who is a part of NN Running Team, broke the previous…
Mizan Alem wins gold in U20 World Championships Women’s 5,000m
Addis Ababa, August 22, 2021 (FBC) - Ethiopian athlete Mizan Alem has won Women’s 5,000m gold in U20 World Championships under way in Kenya.
Mizan finished the race in 16:05:61 and secured the third gold medal for Ethiopia from the 18th…
President Sahle-Work sends Ethiopian athletics team off to Tokyo Paralympic Game
Addis Ababa, August 18, 2021 (FBC) - President Sahle-Work Zewde has sent the Ethiopian athletics team off to the Tokyo Paralympics.
Living with physical disability will not prevent people from achieving their dreams as far as they work…
Ethiopia’s Selemon wins men’s 10,000 metres
Addis Ababa, July 30, 2021 (FBC) - Selemon Barega of Ethiopia won the men’s 10,000 metres gold medal, the first of the Olympic athletics programme, on Friday, defeating world champion and world record holder Joshua Cheptegei of Uganda.…
Ethiopia’s Lamecha cruised to men’s 3,000 metres steeplechase final
Addis Ababa, July 30, 2021 (FBC) -Ethiopia's Lamecha Girma cruised to the final of the men's 3,000 metres steeplechase on Friday with the fastest time of the round of 8:09.83.
The 20-year-old world silver-medalist at the 2019 world…