Ethiopian Sport

The draw for the qualifying campaign for the 2012 Africa Cup of Nations

21 February, 2010

There will be 42 countries in the draw for the 2012 finals to be co-hosted by Equatorial Guinea and Gabon, who qualify automatically.

Group 2: Nigeria, Guinea, Ethiopia, Madagascar

Bekele slumps in Edinburgh cross-country defeat

Ethiopia distance
star Kenenisa
Bekele

10 January, 2010

EDINBURGH (AFP) – Ethiopia distance star Kenenisa Bekele could only manage fourth place in the nine kilometre Edinburgh cross-country race as he suffered a rare defeat on Saturday. more >>

Bekele completes distance double for Ethiopia

23 August, 2009

BERLIN (Reuters) - Ethiopian Kenenisa Bekele became the first man to win the 5,000-10,000 meters double at the world championships when he clocked 13 minutes, 17.09 seconds to take gold at the shorter distance on Sunday. more >>

23 August, 2009

Burka, in the lead at the time of her fall, came in last of the starters and collapsed in tears before being carried away with a bandaged left knee

Gelete Burka (C) of Ethiopia is helped by medical staff after crossing the finish line last following a fall in the women's 1500 meters final during the world athletics championships at the Olympic stadium in Berlin, August 23, 2009.

- Race winner Spaniard Natalia Rodriguez was disqualified for pushing an opponent Gelete Burka.

Bekele joins history-makers with fourth 10,000m world title

Bekele's gold here adds to an unbelievable medal haul from the Olympic Games, worlds and world cross-country championships

Ethiopia's Kenenisa Bekele
celebrates his victory in Berlin.

18 August, 2009

BERLIN (AFP) – Ethiopian Kenenisa Bekele etched his name in distance running history at the world athletics championships here on Monday when he won his fourth consecutive world 10,000m title. more >>

Dibaba will compete in London Grand Prix

20 July, 2009

(CNN) -- Double Olympic champion Tirunesh Dibaba will compete over 5,000 meters at the London Grand Prix next weekend as she takes to the track one final time before the world championships in Berlin. more >>

Dibaba pulls out of Oslo Golden League meet

02 July, 2009

OSLO (AFP) – Ethiopia's triple Olympic champion Tirunesh Dibaba will miss Friday's Golden League meeting in Oslo after suffering a minor injury, her manager Mark Wetmore has announced. more >>

Gebrselassie fails to better one-hour world record

Gebrselassie, the current marathon world record holder

Ethiopian Haile Gebrselassie,
pictured in February 2009

01 June, 2009

HENGELO, Netherlands (AFP) – Ethiopian Haile Gebrselassie failed in an attempt to better his own world record for the one-hour run at the Hengelo Grand Prix on Monday. more >>

Tadese Tola smashes Central Park 10k record

Tadese Tola takes down New York's
Central Park 10km record clocking
27:48

17 May, 2009

New York, USA - Tadese Tola of Ethiopia made history by running 27:48 - the fastest 10K ever recorded in Central Park - at the Healthy Kidney 10K. This was his second match-up with Kenya’s Patrick Makau in New York City and his second win, after last year’s NYC Half-Marathon, in which he edged Makau by one second. more >>

Gebremariam wins world cross country for Ethiopia

Gebre-Egziabher wims world cross country

Gold medal winner
Gebre-egziabher
Gebremariam of Ethiopia.
more >>

Ethiopia's Genzebe
Dibaba competes in
the women's junior
race more >>

Ethiopia's Ayele
Abshero crosses the
finish line to win the
men's junior race
more >>

29 March, 2009

(CNN) -- Gebre-egziabher Gebremariam kept the men's individual title at the world cross country championships in Ethiopia after winning a sprint finish to Saturday's championship in Jordan. more >>