Ghirmay Ghebreslassie
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Nationality | Eritrean | ||||||||||||
Born | 14 November 1995 | ||||||||||||
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Sport | Track and field | ||||||||||||
Event(s) | Marathon | ||||||||||||
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Personal best(s) | Marathon: 2:07:47 | ||||||||||||
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Ghirmay Ghebreslassie (born 14 November 1995) is an Eritrean long distance runner who specialises in the marathon. He won the 2015 World Championships in Athletics in Beijing, China. He is the youngest winner of the marathon at the World Championships.[1][2]
Running career
Ghebreslassie placed 7th at the 2013 IAAF World Cross Country Championships Junior men's race in Bydgoszcz, Poland.[3] Ghebreslassie also placed 7th at the 2014 IAAF World Half Marathon Championships senior men's race in Copenhagen, Denmark.[3] Eritrea won the team competiton but Ghebrelassie was not counted in because he was fourth best of the Eritreans.
On 22 August 2015 Ghebreslassie placed 1st winning the gold medal in the senior men's marathon race at the 2015 World Championships in Athletics competition held in Beijing, China. Ghebreslassie, at 19-years of age, became the youngest ever world marathon winner.[2] In the race he took lead from Lesotho's Tsepo Ramonene Mathibelle at 36km and 1:52 followed by Ethiopian Yemane Tsegay. Ghebreslassie and Tsegay shared lead for a while until at 2:02 Ghebreslassie started to take clear lead and finished first at 2hr 12min 28sec. The race was done in clear conditions and temperatures around 27 degrees Celsius.
Race | Time | Place | Date |
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10,000 Metres | 28:33.37 | Hengelo (Blankers-Koen Stadion) | 27 May 2012 |
10 Kilometres | 28:21 | Gothenburg | 18 May 2014 |
15 Kilometres | 42:43 | Gothenburg | 18 May 2014 |
20 Kilometres | 57:07 | Copenhagen | 29 March 2014 |
Half Marathon | 1:00:09 | Paderborn | 30 March 2013 |
25 Kilometres | 1:13:42 | Chicago | 12 October 2014 |
30 Kilometres | 1:28:46 | Chicago | 12 October 2014 |
Marathon | 2:07:47 | Hamburg | 26 April 2015 |
References
External links
- Ghirmay Ghebreslassie profile at IAAF
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- 1995 births
- Living people
- Eritrean long-distance runners
- Male long-distance runners
- Eritrean marathon runners
- Eritrean sportsmen
- World Championships in Athletics athletes for Eritrea
- World Championships in Athletics medalists
- African athletics biography stubs
- Eritrean people stubs
- Eritrean sport stubs